What Are The Three Parts Of A Comet?

Astronomy defines a comet as a relatively small extraterrestrial body that consists of a frozen mass, which revolves around the sun in an elliptical orbit. It is similar to an asteroid, but the main difference lies in the fact that the comet primarily comprises of ice and dust particles along with rocky material. Comets are the leftovers from the outer cold spaces in the solar system.

A comet consists of three parts – the nucleus, the coma and the tail. The nucleus is the centre, which is hard and dark, and made out of ice, gas and rock. The gas and the dust around the nucleus form the coma. The coma is visible to us, since the sun heats the nucleus, and the coma is nothing but the gas and dust surrounding the nucleus. The power of the sun pushes the dust and gas away from the nucleus, which appears to us as the tail of the comet.

The nucleus the coma and the tail

The three parts of a comet are the nucleus, coma, and tail.

The 3 main parts of a comet are the Nucleus, Coma, and the tail.

The Nucleus is the head of the comet, the Coma is the middle & the tail is the end of the comet.

The 3 parts of a comet are the necleus, the coma, and the 2 types of tails, the Dust Tail, and the Ion Tail.

The nucleus, the dust tail, the ion tail.

Tails, coma, and nucleus.

Because of the the particles that is made of gas,dust,small bits of rocks.it has also parts that is composed of all of it