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comet
A comet is an icy, small Solar System body or interstellar object that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing. This produces an extended, gravitationally unbound atmosphere or coma surrounding the nucleus, and sometimes a tail of gas and dust gas blown out from the coma. These phenomena are due to the effects of solar radiation and the outstreaming solar wind plasma acting upon the nucleus of the comet. Comet nuclei range from a few hundred meters to tens of kilometers across and are composed of loose collections of ice, dust, and small roc

ice
Ice is water that is frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 °C, 32 °F, or 273.15 K. It occurs naturally on Earth, on other planets, in Oort cloud objects, and as interstellar ice. As a naturally occurring crystalline inorganic solid with an ordered structure, ice is considered to be a mineral. Depending on the presence of impurities such as particles of soil or bubbles of air, it can appear transparent or a more or less opaque bluish-white color.
dry ice
solid carbon dioxide
Ice Bucket Challenge
fictional meme
ice giant
giant planet primarily composed of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium
clathrate hydrate
crystalline solid containing molecules caged in a lattice of frozen water
ice planet
planetary type
volatiles
chemical elements or compounds with low boiling points associated with planet’s or moon’s crust or atmosphere
solid oxygen
oxygen in a solid state
solid hydrogen
hydrogen in a solid state
Spin ice
magnetic material under special conditions
solid nitrogen
nitrogen in a solid state
Salt and ice challenge
Internet challenge
blue-ice area
ice-covered area of Antarctica where wind-driven snow transport and sublimation result in net mass loss from the ice surface in the absence of melting, forming a blue-coloured surface that contrasts with the white colour of the Antarctic surface