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