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The Structure of a Comet

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The Structure of a Comet
The solid part of a typical comet (the nucleus) is roughly 10 km in
diameter. The coma can be as large as 105 to 106 km across, and
the hydrogen envelope is typically 107 km in diameter. A comet’s
tail can be enormous—even longer than 1 AU
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