Celestial Objects

• Comets contains silicate compounds
• Meteors have no orbital period
• Meteors are also known as spectacular lights
• Asteroids are rocky objects that orbit the sun
• comets take a long time to orbit
• comets have an orbital period of 75-100,000 Years
• Meteorites are type of meteors that can hit the surface
• Asteroids originate in asteroid belts
• Asteroid belts are between the plabts mars and jupiter
• Comets have 3 parts; head, nucleus and tail
• The tail of a comet is made up of melting ice
• Solar winds blows more gas and dusts into coma of a comet that makes a tail
• Nucleus is a part of a comet that is a solid inner core
• Comets have a solid rocky core
• Whenever comets pass through sun, it loses some of its materials
• Comets are made up of frozen ice or ice and dust
• Comets get bigger as gas and are released in its coma true or false?

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• Comets originate in Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud
• Meteors can be seen because their location is at the Earths Atmosphere
• Asteroids are also called as planetoid because they are now categorized as minor planets
• Asteroids have an orbital period of 1-100 Years
• Comets tail is facing AWAY the sun
• Asteroids are categorized by its material composition
• Meteors have different hues, categorized by chemical composition
• Asteroids orbit the same way how our plants orbit