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15 POINTS ANSWER FAST -- Choose the correct description of a comet.

a large meteor that appears as a fireball once it strikes the atmosphere with a tail
bodies of ice and rock that orbit the Sun and produce a coma and tail of vapor and dust when near the Sun
rocky bodies that ranging in size from a meter to 900 km orbiting between Mars and Jupiter
concentrations of meteors called showers that the Earth passes through in its orbit annually

User Zambonee
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Answer:

Bodies of ice and rock that orbit the Sun and produce a coma and tail of vapor and dust when near the Sun

Step-by-step explanation:

So if you go to the NASA dictionary it states:

Comet- cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock, and dust that orbit the Sun.

So it is most definitely the second option

Have a great day :D

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