Comets
What is comet made of?
Icy, black rocks and dust.
What is a meteoroid?
It is something that moves in the solar system and when it enters the Earth atmosphere it becomes a meteor.
From what are asteroids made?
Asteroids are made of rocks and metal.
Are their any comets headed our way?
No.
Are all meteoroids the same size?
No they are calculated with mass and density.
Where is the asteroid belt located in our solar system?
They are in the middle of our inner and outer planets.
Inner Planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mar)
Outer Planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune)
What is contained in the nucleus of a comet?
A comet's nucleus is like a snowball made of ice.
What is the largest meteoroid that has collided with this with this planet?
Chelyabinsk meteor
What do asteroids look like?
They have jagged and irregular shapes.
Name the four parts of a comet.
The nucleus, the coma, the ion tail, and the dust tail.
Do meteor make sound?
Yes, sometimes they can make noise and can be seen.
How many asteroids are there?
There are over 822,000.
Where do comets originate?
Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud.
How many meteors enter the Earth's atmosphere every day?
25 million meteoroids have entered the Earth atmosphere.
From where do asteroids come?
Asteroids are leftovers and uncompleted planets from our solar system.