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Asteroids
Asteroids
A rocky object that orbits the Sun.
What is an asteroid?
Group of scientists that watch the sky every night looking for new asteroids
What is NASA's Planetary Defense Mission?
This has greater acceleration if the same force is applied: a bicycle or a loaded truck
What is a bicycle?
The process that plants could not do after the asteroid hit because there too much shade form the dust and debris
What is photosynthesis?
Jupiter and Mars
What two planets are the asteroid belt between?
The path an object follows as it moves around another object in space.
What is an orbit?
The experiment in 2021 that NASA that used a spacecraft to nudge an asteroid out of the way
What is DART? More points of you can say what it stands for!
The tendency of an object to resist changes in its motion.
What is inertia?
66 Million Years ago
When dod the big asteroid hit earth and kill the dinosaurs?
Force that keeps the planets orbiting the Sun
What is gravity?
An asteroid whose orbit brings it close to Earth.
What is an NEA, or Near Earth Asteroid?
Telescopes and spacecraft.
What tools does NASA use to help detect and nudge asteroids?
Newton's First Law is also known as this
What is the Law of Inertia?
75%
What percent of animals were killed when the big asteroid hit 66 million years ago?
Planet with the most prominent ring system
What is Saturn?
Near-Earth objects with orbits that bring them exceptionally close to our planet
What is a PHA, or Potentially Hazardous Asteroiod?
Dimorphos
What is the name of the asteroid that NASA did the DART test on?
According to Newton's First Law, an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted on by this
What is a force?
Iridium, shocked quartz, Chicxulub Crater, fossils
What is the evidence scientists found to prove that dinosaurs existed?
A planet orbits the Sun; a moon orbits a planet.
What is the difference between a planet and a moon?
Where most asteroids are found
What is the Asteroid Belt?
Blowing up asteroids
What does NASA NOT do so that it does not creare a hazard to earth?
A telescope that orbits Earth and takes pictures of space.
What is the Hubble Telescope?
Birds and sharks
What are the closest living relatives to dinosaurs?
This causes day and night on Earth
What is Earth rotating on its axis