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10.11.2022 • 
Physics

Four students differentiated between 2 celestial terms. Which student's example is NOT true?
1."A comet is mainly composed of ice and dust, and a meteoroid is composed of debris of comets and sometimes debris of asteroids."
2."A comet can generate a tail of gas and dust, and a meteor has a bright tail of light caused by a meteoroid during its atmospheric flight."
3."A moon is a celestial body that makes an orbit around a planet, and an asteroid orbits the sun."
4."A meteoroid is the part of a meteorite that survives the passage through our atmosphere and reaches the Earth's surface; and a meteorite is similar to an asteroid, but smaller."

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