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Did you know? The difference between comet and asteroid: comets are ice+rock, develop a characteristic tail when they get closer to the Sun. Asteroids are pure rock. However — recent probes discovered that some asteroids can also develop dust tails. The boundary between the two is fuzzier than old textbooks suggest.

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The difference between comet and asteroid: comets are ice+rock, develop a characteristic tail when they get closer to the Sun. Asteroids are pure rock. However — recent probes discovered that some asteroids can also develop dust tails. The boundary between the two is fuzzier than old textbooks suggest.

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