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Comets are made of dust, stones, ice, and frozen gases. Their
tail is made of gas and dust and faces away from the solar wind
coming from the Sun. They are only a few miles across, but when
the sun heats them, they turn to gas and expand to thousands of
miles across. Their ellipse (orbit) is shaped like a flat beach ball.
One famous comet is Halley’s Comet. It is seen every 76
years. It’s discoverer was Edmund Halley, who discovered it in
1682.
An asteroid is a huge
chunk of stone and
metal left over from Asteroids
the creation of the
Solar System.