1. Asteroids are typically rocky bodies from the asteroid belt.
2. Comets, on the other hand, may come from the Oort Cloud and are icy.
3. Asteroids tend to be named by an international panel, comets after their discoverers.
4. Comets tend to have tails; asteroids typically don't.
NASA5. But it can get tricky to make a distinction between the two.
NASA6. Comets can also make micro asteroids.
iStock solarseven/iStock7. There are even hybrids between comets and asteroids out there.