astronomy ques. if you answer all and all are good answers...best answer pts.?

Question

5.Why are there many small asteroids but only a few very large ones?

6.Does each comet always have a tail or tails?Explain.

9.Why is the phrase “dirty iceberg” an appropriate characterization of a comet’s nucleus?

10.What is the Kuiper belt, and how is it related to debris left over from the formation of the Solar System?

Answer 1

5)well asteroids are still in space, i guess that vespa isn't big enough for you. basically if an asteroid were any bigger it would not be an asteroid but a dwarf planetoid (like pluto).

if you meant meteorites which are the actual rocks that make it to the ground. the larger ones crack up into smaller pieces , are buries under their own debris, and are likely just more rare than the many tiny ones that hit the earth every day.

6) each comet gets two tails as it comes closer to the sun. one of ionized atoms and another of dust. when they are floating further form the sun they have no tails.

9) comets are believed to be dirty snowballs. basically bits of rock and ice left over from the formation of the solar system.

10) the kuiper belt is a halo of debris left over from the formation of the solar system. it was too far away from the sun to coalesce into a planet and so it just floats out on the fring of the solar system until something knocks a few of them in towards the solar system where they eventually become comets.

Answer 2

5) When the Sun fully developed, it's leftovers create the planets, and asteroids.... most of the debris of course will be small, but if compared to human, its enormous.

6) It depends on the comet's speed orbiting the Sun or other stars, if it's speed it high enough, the friction of the pressure in space will burn it(not really burn) and it will make a tail behind it

9) Dirty ice berg, well you see, a comet IS a block of ice, well with some dirt in it

10) same with question 5

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Uhhhmmm...Do your own homework?