Mr. Hale and Mr. Bopp. I am part of a team that is observing Hale Bopp. I will be working on the data soon, but I haven't seen it yet. Observing a comet tells us about the material that the solar system formed out of. Meteors are the left over debris from comets.
Comets are icy bodies that reside far away in the solar system where it is cold.
When they come in close to the Sun, the ice melts. Pieces of asteroids that fall to the Earth are called meteorites. I will be in Hawaii , on Mauna Kea where the telescopes are, to use a different telescope in April. I will be studying other comets. Yes, some of the ices will evaporate as the comet comes closer to the Sun.