Parts of a comet
Ion tail
A tail of charged gases that always faces away from the sun because the solar wind pushes it away.
Comet
Big balls of dust, rock, and metal surrounded by an icy shell. They Orbit the sun. It is the shape of Oblong.
Asteroid
Made up of Dust, rock, and metal. Between Mars and Jupiter in the Asteroid belt.
Meteoroids
Rocky space in our solar system, Larger than a grain of dust but most are the size of a pebble.
Meteorites
They hit Earth's Atmosphere, They are also dangerous because they are too small to be detected.
Meteor
They hit Earth's Atmosphere, we mainly call them "Shooting Stars," they burn u in our atmosphere and make a big light in the sky. They are the size of pebbles.
Nucleus
This part of the comet is the frozen center of a comet's head. It is composed of ice, gas, and dust.
Coma
This part of the comet is the roughly spherical blob of gas that surrounds the nucleus of a comet; it is about a million kilometers across.
Dust tail
This tail is a long, wide tail composed of microscopic dust particles