UNIVERSE
COMETS
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Question
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Which object is like a “dirty snowball” about the size of a mountain?
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Asteroid
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Comet
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Meteor
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Meteoroid
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The comet nucleus is the dirty snowball that is essentially the entire comet when it is frozen and far from the Sun. The coma is a large, dusty atmosphere surrounding the nucleus, made up of sublimated gas mixed with dust.
Detailed explanation-2: -Comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock, and dust that orbit the Sun.
Detailed explanation-3: -Comets are loosely packed dirty snowballs, formed of various ices (i.e. water, carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia, carbon monoxide, and cyanide/cyanogen) as well as dirt and rocks.
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