Comet Anatomy
The three things in a comet's core
Ice, dust, and rock
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The average size of a comets tail.
What is about 600,000 miles?
The reason comets give off a trail
What is melting?
The name for the core of a comet
What is nucleus?
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The two ways tails of comets are made.
What are solar winds and melting?
The relative size of most comets
What is a small town?
The name for a dense cloud of water, carbon dioxide and other neutral gasses from the nucleus
What is coma?
What did people in the old times think when they saw a comet?
What is many people thought if they saw a comet it was the end?
The amount of tails a comet has
What is two?
The nickname for comets
What is dirty snowballs?
(icy mud balls works too)
The things in a dust tail
What is smoke sized dust particles?
What did ancient scientists think?
What is comets brought with them flood, brimstone and fire?
What is ionization?
The number of known comets
What is 3,571?
What is plasma and rays?
What Pope Callixtus III thought about comets
What is signs of near doom?
The reaction from a magnetic reconnection
What comets are usually named after
What is their discoverer?