Comet tails

Comet
This is a comet.Find out what a comet’s tail is made from. First correct response gets a prize!

What is happening in this picture?
Why?
evaporation

19 Responses to “States of Matter”
  1. Taylah barbuto says:

    ICE

  2. Despina says:

    Ice

  3. jaya says:

    hi
    ice

  4. annie says:

    it is made of ice

  5. Rebekah says:

    They comets tail is made of plasma

  6. Taylah barbuto says:

    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.

  7. mollie says:

    made of dust and gas

  8. Rachael Kilikidis says:

    it is made out of plasma??

  9. Alanah says:

    Ice. it is made of Ice

  10. maria says:

    ice

  11. lucy race says:

    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.

  12. jaya says:

    hi
    ice
    jaya

  13. angela says:

    made of gas
    total guess

  14. Samantha Hunt says:

    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.

  15. Joanne Yi says:

    rock, dust, water ice, and frozen gases such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia

  16. lucy race says:

    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

  17. Jess Galtry says:

    comets tail is made out of plasma.

  18. Jess Galtry says:

    a comets tail is made of plasma

  19. Imogen says:

    Imogen says hi!
    the tail is made of is ice and dust particals
    from imogen

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