This large body of frozen ice and rock sometimes forms what appears to be a bright, glowing tail when it gets near the Sun.
What is this? PLEASE ANSWER! Me and my friend Komal need the answer.. PLEASE! and thankyou!
2006-11-16 12:00:25 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Comet. Here's a picture of a big one near Earth:
http://wsx.lanl.gov/WebPub/images/comet-hale-bopp_wurden-3-6-97.jpg
Notice the two tails. The white tail is from ice becoming gas like a snowball in July. Comets are only really stable when they are in the outer reaches of the solar system. There is also a glowing blue tail that looks like it is some sort of Hollywood magic. This is the ion tain from the solar wind blowing across the comet and pulling along charged particles. Cool, huh?
No one really knows what the surface of a comet looks like because they are always boiling away and shrouding their cores when they are near Earth. Best guess is something like an enormous dirty snowball, only made with frozen CO2 and CH4 in addition to good old H20. It is very cold out where they are most of the time, so things that don't normally freeze turn into ices.
2006-11-16 12:26:14 · answer #1 · answered by Wise1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A comet. The solar wind pushes the particles that are around the comet away causing it to form a tail.
2006-11-16 16:32:15 · answer #2 · answered by waldon l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-29 05:14:39 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Comet
2006-11-16 14:40:02 · answer #4 · answered by Tim T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Comet. ...Duh.
The tail flows in back when the comet has enough mass while falling towards the sun ... it flows in front when it's mass is very small and the suns gravity turns the tail towards itself.
Hey, You and Komal have a good night.
Jonnie
2006-11-16 14:25:44 · answer #5 · answered by Jonnie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A comet
2006-11-16 12:03:49 · answer #6 · answered by LoneWolf 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely a comet. Their ion tails point away from the sun, and their dust tails curve. They also orbit the sun.
2006-11-16 13:10:15 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. It's a comet.
2006-11-16 12:02:10 · answer #8 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Could be Hailey's Comet.
2006-11-16 12:02:56 · answer #9 · answered by Paul Sabre 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And the answer is........A comet. Comets are visitors from our solar system that have eliptical orbits and actually go out of our solar system and countinue in their eliptical orbits for indefinite periods of time.....KECK
2006-11-16 12:08:27 · answer #10 · answered by Tneciter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋