UNIVERSE
ASTEROIDS
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Question
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Asteroids are gaseous, and comets are solid.
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Asteroids are solid, and comets are gaseous.
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Both asteroids and comets are solids.
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Both asteroids and comets are gaseous.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Both asteroids and comets are solids.
Detailed explanation-2: -Asteroids are made of rock, metals and other elements. Some even contain water, astronomers say. Asteroids that are mostly stone sometimes are more like loose piles of rubble. Asteroids that are mostly iron are more, well, rock-solid.
Detailed explanation-3: -Asteroids are small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun.
Detailed explanation-4: -Which of these statements best describes the difference between asteroids and comets? Asteroids are composed of rocky material and metals; comets are composed of ice and rocky material.
Detailed explanation-5: -The coma is a cloud of gases that surrounds the nucleus of a comet. In some comets, a cloud of hydrogen gas surrounds the coma.
Detailed explanation-6: -Asteroids are solid, rocky and irregular bodies that are the rocky remnants of the protoplanetary disk of dust and gas that formed around our young sun over 4.5 billion years ago.