Comet, Meteor or Asteroid?
This astronomical body has tails.
What is a comet?
The innermost part of a comet.
What is the nucleus?
This comet last made it's way by Earth in 1986.
What is Halley's comet?
Comets that take 200 years or less to make one orbit.
What is a short-period comet?
The Sun is _____________ miles from the Earth.
What is 93 million?
This large body is made mostly of rock and metal.
What is an asteroid?
The atmosphere of a comet.
What is the coma?
This comet has the shortest orbit of any discovered comet.
What is Comet Enke?
What is a long-period comet?
The name of the tallest volcano in the Solar System?
What is Olympus Mons?
This body can be as small as a speck of dust.
What is a meteoroid?
This part of the comet goes away from the sun.
What is the tail?
The Stardust mission captured comet particles in this substance that is 99% air.
What is aerogel?
The measurement used to determine how far from a perfect circle an orbit is around the Sun.
What is eccentricity?
The only two planets that do not have moons.
What are Venus and Mercury?
The name of a meteoroid as it is going through Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
Another name for the gas tail of a comet.
What is an ion tail?
This comet was the focus of NASA's Stardust mission.
What is Comet Wild 2?
Comets that have a shorter orbit are thought to come from this area.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
The largest manned object ever sent to space.
What is the International Space Station?
The name of a meteoroid that has landed on the Earth.
What is a meteorite?
The dust trail left behind by a comet becomes one of these in the sky.
What is a meteor shower?
NASA's Deep Impact mission collided with this comet in 2005.
What is Comet Tempel 1?
Comets that have a longer orbit are thought to come from this area.
What is the Oort Cloud?
The time it takes the ISS to orbit the Earth one time.
What is 90 minutes?