Comets

A bit of research on comets and the solor system, basically a comet is a minor planet made up of rock, dust and ice. they originate from a cloud of debris remaining from the condensation of the solar nebula(the disc shaped cloud of gas and dust left over from when the sun formed). Comets are unique because they are created in the outer solar system, and are greatly affected by the planets they pass. While a comet is orbiting, its path is constantly being altered as it nears surrounding planets. These changes in orbit can send it on a path approaching the sun, where it will burn up, or can be cast completely out of the solar system.

The tail of a comet is actually called the coma, which is composed of gas and dust streams. When a comet passes through the inner solar system, the sun lights up these streams so that we are able to see it. This is how we have been able to see Halley’s Comet from Earth.

The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by gravity. These objects are the eight planets, their 166 known moons, five dwarf planets, and billions of small bodies. The small bodies include asteroids, icy Kuiper belt objects, comets, meteoroids, and interplanetary dust.