Question

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."

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

A meteoroid is an inevitably solid object ranging in size from 10 microns to 1 meter moving in interplanetary space. Meteoroids can be primary objects, as well as derivative fragments of larger celestial bodies (not only asteroids).

The example of the first student does NOT correspond to reality:

1. "A comet is mainly composed of ice and dust, and a meteoroid is composed of debris of comets and sometimes debris of asteroids."