KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock, and dust that orbit the Sun. When frozen, they are the size of a small town. When a comet’s orbit brings it close to the Sun, it heats up and spews dust and gases into a giant glowing head larger than most planets.

Detailed explanation-2: -A Comet Has Two Types of Tail The plasma tail comprises electrons and ions that are ionized by the sun’s ultraviolet radiation. The dust tail consists of micrometer-scale particles. The dust tail is wide and slightly bent because of the pressure of the light from the sun and the orbital action of the comet’s nucleus.

Detailed explanation-3: -Comets are loose collections of ice, dust, or rock particles whose orbits are usually very long, narrow ellipses. You can think of a comet as a “dirty snowball.”