Talk:Comet Dragon/@comment-5081849-20151112214842/@comment-5835936-20151114173439

Comets are not another name for shooting stars. When meteors enter the Earth's atmosphere they burn up and create a bright fire trail, this is what we call a "shooting star". Comets are large objects made of ice and dirt and bits of rock that are in orbit around the Sun. They usually have odd orbits outside of the plane that the planets orbit in, but sometimes they cross close enough to be viewed. For example, Halley's Comet is visible every 75 years, as this is the time it takes it to orbit the Sun, and each time it does it passes fairly close to Earth at one point. Comets do not "shoot" as they usually take several nights to cross our view. They also do not enter our atmosphere and their tail is instead caused by solar winds tearing ice and dust from the comet. The only link between comets and meteorites is that some meteorite storms are caused by the Earth passing through the tail of a large comet. These meteorites are pieces of the comet that were torn off by the solar winds burnign up in the Earth's atmosphere.

For this reason, I would say it makes much more sense for a Comet dragon to be Galaxy than it does a Meteor dragon as comets are large, relatively long lasting features of space, whereas meteors are (usually) small pieces of rock that that only exist because of interaction with a planet's atmosphere. By which I mean something is only called a meteor because it is interacting with a planet's atmosphere. Before then it could be an asteroid, space junk, or a part of a comet tail. It is possible for a comet to become a meteor, but very rare for a planet as small as Earth. Fairly recently a comet did collide with Jupiter though (which is over 1,300 times bigger than Earth). So meteors are much more "terrestrial" things than comets.

Extra bonus space fact: the difference between a meteor and a meteorite is that a meteorite is a rock that came from space that has laned on Earth, whereas a meteor is in the process of falling through the atmosphere.

Also, if a Comet dragon were a standard hybrid, it should be some combination of Earth, Cold, and Air (maybe even Dark), to reflect the rock and ice that make it up, and the far reaches of space they travel to.