i will give u hint................... it's really big
2007-11-16 10:23:42 · 8 answers · asked by pillbox_123 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The coma of Comet Holmes is no more a "celestial body" than is the Oort Cloud that surrounds our solar system. And the Oort Cloud is much much larger than the coma of Comet Holmes.
The actual nucleus of Comet Holmes is only a few miles in diameter. That the coma (a very thin cloud of dust and gas) is currently larger than the sun does not actually qualify it as the largest celestial body in our solar system, except in a very esoteric sense. Its mass is still very tiny.
2007-11-16 11:44:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pluto has no longer been "eradicated" from our image voltaic equipment. we've purely given it a distinctive call. Pluto and its moon Charon, which might the two have been planets decrease than the preliminary definition proposed Aug. sixteen, now get demoted because of fact they are area of a sea of different products that occupy the comparable area of area. Earth and the different 8 great planets have, on the different hand, cleared extensive swaths of area of the different great products. "Pluto is a dwarf planet with the aid of the ... definition and is recognised because of fact the prototype of a sparkling class of trans-Neptunian products," states the authorized decision. Dwarf planets are no longer planets decrease than the definition, whether. "there will be 1000's of dwarf planets," Brown envisioned. He has already got here across dozens that greater healthful the class. If Pluto replaced into nevertheless seen a planet then: it may even have made planets out of the asteroid Ceres and Pluto's moon Charon; additionally our moon could have been seen a planet. yet no longer now. Astronomers have argued because of fact the previous due Nineteen Nineties, whether, on whether to demote Pluto. Pluto is decrease than 0.5 the size of the different planet, and its orbit is at a particular attitude from the airplane wherein the different planets shuttle around the solar.
2016-12-16 10:52:20 · answer #2 · answered by inabinet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Comet 17P/Holmes. The expanding coma of the comet recently passed 1.4million km in diameter, making it marginally larger than the Sun, though considerably less massive, of course.
2007-11-16 10:31:33 · answer #3 · answered by Jason T 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What's *really* the largest object, or what *appears to be* the largest object? For the former, it's obviously the Sun, and for the latter, it's a comet called 17P/Holmes.
2007-11-16 11:46:06 · answer #4 · answered by musiclover 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Sun.
2007-11-16 10:30:24 · answer #5 · answered by stork5100 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
maybe sun or some comet
2007-11-16 10:50:43 · answer #6 · answered by se 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Bill O'Reilly's ego!
oh, okay... its that damn comet.
2007-11-16 10:33:54 · answer #7 · answered by Faesson 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
dud da duh the SUN
2007-11-16 10:31:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋