Asteroid
Asteroids are small Solar System bodies that orbit this.
What is the sun?
True or False... A comet is a relatively small solar system body that orbits the Sun.
What is "True"?
A small rock or particle of debris in our solar system.
What is a meteoroid?
True or False Asteroids almost always look the same as one another.
What is False.
Comets are made of these things.
What is ice, dust, and small rocky particles.
A meteoroid that burns up as it passes through the Earth’s atmosphere.(Shooting Star)
What is a meteor.
True or False An asteroid hit the earth 25 million years ago.
What is False.
The name comet comes from..
What is... The Greek word meaning ‘hair of the head’ or 'long-haired star', it came from the Greek philosopher Aristotle who observed comets as ‘stars with hair’
A meteoroid that survives falling through the Earth’s atmosphere and colliding with the Earth’s surface.
What is a meteorite?
True or False Asteroids are too small and too numerous to be considered full-fledged planets.
What is true.
Gas and dust form what part of a comet?
What forms the tail of a comet
When many meteors occur in a close time frame in the same part of the sky...(Hint we looked at a picture of this)
What is a meteor shower?
The asteroid Belt is located here.
What is the area that lies roughly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in the Solar System.
This comet can be seen with the naked eye from Earth every 75 to 76 years.
What is Halley's Comet?
what is the difference between a meteor and a meteorite?
When meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere (or other planets,) at high speed and burn up, the fireballs or “shooting stars” are called meteors. When a meteoroid survives a trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground, it's called a meteorite.