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what is the diffrence between astroioidds and comets?

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.

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

asteroids are debris from monumental collisions

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.

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, , ,

ta152h0 wrote:asteroids are debris from monumental collisions

...of comets