What is a comet?

Small bodies of the solar system, comets, that orbit on Sunday. When the comet next Sunday, which saw a coma or tail is known that the effects of solar radiation is the comet nucleus. Comets are collected from ice cores, particles of dust and small rocks.

The orbit of comet several years millions of years. Some comets through the solar system, even before removing the spaces between them. Comets of short period of reflection Kuiper belt (in the scattered disk), while access to large Oort cloud of comets in May sun Comets are thought as the rest of the Debris condensed solar nebula. Comets are the solar gravity pushing other stars.

Trace impurities in the following comet is a comet that passed through a difficult country. The meteor shower occurs every year between August and nine of the third, when the comet orbiting the globe. Swift-Tuttle. Comet Halley causes Orionid shower in October.

Comets are little different from Asteroids front of the tail of a comet known commas. However their long volatiles may cause the comet coma and finally similar asteroids. Suspicion of planets in the solar system have not left the system.

In June 2008 comet called 3475. Comet one hundred this seems to be a short period comets. But comets are added. This is a small number of potential comet fragments.

by Alexander Sutton