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As of November 2009, astronomers had listed 3,648 known comets (580 unclassified). This is a small fraction of the number that could exist, which could be as high as a trillion or more. Most will never come into proximity of the Sun, trapped in orbits well beyond the planets of the solar system.

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Shooting stars are not stars to begin with. They are dust particles and small meteors entering our planets atmosphere. Due to the intense heat on entry into our atmosphere they burn and produce the glow.

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Unknown. How many grains of sand are there on the beaches of the earth.

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It would be impossible to put an accurate number on them. Certainly many, many millions

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Several comets are observed every year. Not all of them are spectacular, or can even be seen with the naked eye, so the exact answer is not known.

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At a rough guess, there may be trillions of comets in the Milky Way galaxy.MAby even more

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There are a couple hundred billion stars in the Milky Way. A conservative estimate for the number of comets would be in the quadrillions.

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There is no exact number since they are constantly crashing into Earth. Most are smaller than a grain of sand.

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None - comets are in orbit round the Sun.

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1 trillion

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