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What are the two parts of a comet?
Question Date: 2006-05-15
Answer 1:

The two parts of a comet are the head and a tail. The head contains the nucleus (typically made up of rock, dust and ice) surrounded by a hairy structure called the coma. The tail part of the comet is made up of gases.

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