contrast between comets and meteoroids
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Comets: Comets are dirty space snowballs of mostly ice and dust that formed during the birth of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago.
Meteoroids, Meteors, Meteorites: Meteoroids are tiny asteroids or the broken-off crumbs of comets and sometimes planets.
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Yet despite their apparent differences, there are similarities between them. Both are relatively small objects that have their origins in interplanetary space, orbiting the sun. A few meteorites may actually be fragments of comets, although such fragments are more likely to burn up as meteors in the upper atmosphere.
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