g, comet comet is a sky object with a long tail. It does not have its own light. It reflects the Sun’s light. When the comet is getting closer to the Sun, the comet's light becomes brighter. The comet's surface will evaporate as it approaches the sun. The gas resulted from the evaporation will stream out and form a cloud at the back of the comet, which is called coma. The cloud appears as the comet's tail. The tail’s direction is always pointed away from the Sun. Some comets that have been found are Halley, Kohoutek, Ikeya- Seki, Hyakutake, and Hale-Bopp. 1. Meteor Meteor is a sky object, which is small and has irregular orbit. Sometimes it hits other bigger sky objects. It is because thegravity of the sky object pulls the meteor. For example is the meteors that enter the Earth atmosphere. Friction with the Earth atmosphere causes the meteor to glow like falling star. Most of meteor burns up in atmosphere, but some falls to Earth, Meteor that falls to Earth is called meteorite. rea coma Figure 7.18 Parts of comet Figure 7.19 While having friction with atmosphere, the meteor will glows.