astroids

Tigist Sitota · Post by **Tigist Sitota** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:32 pm

what is the diffrence between astroioidds and comets?

Andy Wade · Post by **Andy Wade** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:16 pm

Tigist Sitota wrote:what is the diffrence between astroioidds and comets?

They seem to be quite similar but with some small differences mainly to do which how they behave and where they originate. I confess I never really thought about this.
Here are some starting points on Wikipedia which explain what each one is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid

Hope this helps.

ta152h0 · Post by **ta152h0** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:11 am

asteroids are dead comets ( devoid of volatile matter ) pass the beer

ta152h0 · Post by **ta152h0** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:31 pm

asteroids are debris from monumental collisions

BMAONE23 · Post by **BMAONE23** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:48 pm

Asteroids are also the free floating, left over material from the formation of the solar system that didn't fall within the orbital path of a planetary body and therefore weren't absorbed into a larger planet.

craterchains · Post by **craterchains** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:18 pm

A comet leaves a tail. or trail of material as it orbits close to the sun.

An asteroid has no tail as it never gets close enough to the sun.

Thus you have it, an asteroid is a tailless comet, , ,

Now about that beer, , ,

jesusfreak16 · Post by **jesusfreak16** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:15 pm

ta152h0 wrote:asteroids are debris from monumental collisions

...of comets

Starship Asterisk*

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