SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Comets orbit the Sun, like asteroids. But comets are made of ice and dust-not rock. As a comet’s orbit takes it toward the Sun, the ice and dust begin to vaporize. That vaporized ice and dust become the comet’s tail.

Detailed explanation-2: -Comets go around the Sun in a highly elliptical orbit. They can spend hundreds and thousands of years out in the depths of the solar system before they return to Sun at their perihelion. Like all orbiting bodies, comets follow Kepler’s Laws-the closer they are to the Sun, the faster they move.

Detailed explanation-3: -Asteroids, meteors, and comets actually have the same basic composition. They are made of rock, dust, and sometimes ice that was leftover from the formation of the planets. Both comets and asteroids orbit the Sun. Meteors are created when comets leave behind some dust and small rocks as they complete their orbits.