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Comets are icy leftovers from the solar system’s formation billions of years ago. They usually hang out in the cold, distant regions of the solar system, but occasionally a gravitational tug from a planet, another comet, or even a nearby star sends them into the inner solar system. Once there, the sun’s heat and radiation vaporizes gas and dust from the comet, forming its tail. Comets typically have two tails, one made of dust and a fainter one made of electrically conducting gas, called plasma.
CMEs are large clouds of magnetized gas ejected into space by the sun. They are violent eruptions with masses upwards of a few billion tons traveling anywhere from 100 to 3,000 kilometers per second (62 to 1,864 miles/second). They have been compared to hurricanes because of the widespread disruption they can bring when directed at Earth; CMEs are known to cause geomagnetic storms that can present hazards for satellites, radio communications, and power systems.
Comets typically have two tails, one made of dust and a fainter one made of electrically conducting gas, called plasma.CMEs are large clouds of magnetized gas ejected into space by the sun.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:52 am - Edit
ICE
August 20th, 2008 at 9:52 am - Edit
Ice
August 20th, 2008 at 9:52 am - Edit
hi
ice
August 20th, 2008 at 9:53 am - Edit
it is made of ice
August 20th, 2008 at 9:53 am - Edit
They comets tail is made of plasma
August 20th, 2008 at 9:53 am - Edit
Comets are icy leftovers from the solar system’s formation billions of years ago. They usually hang out in the cold, distant regions of the solar system, but occasionally a gravitational tug from a planet, another comet, or even a nearby star sends them into the inner solar system. Once there, the sun’s heat and radiation vaporizes gas and dust from the comet, forming its tail. Comets typically have two tails, one made of dust and a fainter one made of electrically conducting gas, called plasma.
CMEs are large clouds of magnetized gas ejected into space by the sun. They are violent eruptions with masses upwards of a few billion tons traveling anywhere from 100 to 3,000 kilometers per second (62 to 1,864 miles/second). They have been compared to hurricanes because of the widespread disruption they can bring when directed at Earth; CMEs are known to cause geomagnetic storms that can present hazards for satellites, radio communications, and power systems.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:53 am - Edit
made of dust and gas
August 20th, 2008 at 9:54 am - Edit
it is made out of plasma??
August 20th, 2008 at 9:54 am - Edit
Ice. it is made of Ice
August 20th, 2008 at 9:54 am - Edit
ice
August 20th, 2008 at 9:55 am - Edit
the comets tail is composed of dust and gas driven off the icy comet nucleus by the Sun’s heat and blown away by the solar wind.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:55 am - Edit
hi
ice
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August 20th, 2008 at 9:55 am - Edit
made of gas
total guess
August 20th, 2008 at 9:56 am - Edit
Comets typically have two tails, one made of dust and a fainter one made of electrically conducting gas, called plasma.CMEs are large clouds of magnetized gas ejected into space by the sun.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:56 am - Edit
rock, dust, water ice, and frozen gases such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia
August 20th, 2008 at 9:57 am - Edit
the comets tail is composed of dust and gas driven off the icy comet nucleus by the suns heat and blown away by solar wind
August 20th, 2008 at 9:57 am - Edit
comets tail is made out of plasma.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:58 am - Edit
a comets tail is made of plasma
August 20th, 2008 at 10:02 am - Edit
Imogen says hi!
the tail is made of is ice and dust particals
from imogen