Comets
Meteor Stuff
Asteroids
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What is the nucleus?
100
Small pieces of rock from a comet that travel through the solar system.
What are meteoroids?
100
A large piece of rock similar to the material that formed into planets.
What is an asteroid.
200
2
What is the dust tail?
200
A meteoroid that burns up in Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor.
200
Where most asteroids are found in the solar system.
What is the asteroid belt.
300
3
What is the gas tail?
300
A meteoroid that hits the Earth.
What is a meteorite?
300
The name of the largest asteroid discovered.
What is Ceres?
400
4
What is the coma?
400
A shooting star.
What is a meteor.
400
The planet whose gravity kept a planet being from being formed where the asteroid belt is located.
What is Jupiter.
500
The cloud of comets that lies beyond Pluto.
What is the Oort cloud?
500
Name all 4 places metoerites probably come from.
What is asteroid collisions, broken-up comets, the moon, and Mars.
500
Where the asteroid belt os located.
What is between Mars and Jupiter.
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