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A comet's impressiveness is not so much determined by the nucleus size - it depends on its activity, and thus its coma and tail size. Activity is not easily relatable to the size of the comet, but there is a way:
As to the influence of the size of the comet: it has an influence on the tensile strength of the cometary material due to compaction. Following the ...
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