What are comet tails made mostly of?

Question

a. gas
b. sunlight
c. dirt
d. clay

Answer 1

A comet's tail is not made out of dirt (or pixiedust, for that matter). The tail does contain some dust (there are actually two tails that seems like one, one of dust particles and one of gas), but it is mainly made up of ionized gases, which always point directly away from the sun.
I would definitely put "a. gas" as the right answer. Dust and dirt aren't really the same thing. (dirt is found on Earth, that's why another word for "dirt" is "earth.")

Answer 2

Ans. a) gas
Comets actually have two tails:
the dust tail and the gas or ion tail. The names should tell
you what's in them. Both tails always point *away* from the Sun,
independent of the comet's motion. The dust tail is formed of
solid particles escaping from the cometary nucleus into their own
solar orbits and may be slightly curved. It shines with reflected
sunlight. The ion tail is pushed straight back from the coma by
the solar wind and solar radiation pressure and glows from the
fluorescence of the ionized molecules CO+, N2+, OH+, CO2+, and CH+.
Some comets are also surrounded by huge (bigger than the Sun)
clouds of hydrogen gas.

Answer 3

As comets approach the sun, they melt and spew off the dirt ice into particles; mixed with the light from the sun you actually will get many tails, some which are perpendicular to one another.

Answer 4

comet tails are largely cosmic dust but it also requires sunlight or we would not see it. So, according to the choices you list my first choice is "c" but also remember that without sunlight we would not be able to see the comet. During the day, the sun is so much brigther than the comet tail and at night, without a source of light to reflect off the cosmic dust, it would be too dark to see in the night sky.

Answer 5

c, dirt.

Has a comet gets close to the Sun, it starts to shed this and Ice creating a giant tail, we call this a shooting star.

Answer 6

lets see
u know it cant be sunlight or clay (because thats from earth)
so ur left with
gas and dirt
and if u read the chapter i bet u a million dollars that it is dirt...

Answer 7

None of the above.
They are stardust, and magical.

Answer 8

C. dirt or more precisely, dust.

Answer 9

a & c