Asteroids
Where do Asteroids come from?.
What is an Asteroid belt?
When near the sun in their orbit, a comet produces this which glows or reflects sunlight.
What is a comet's tail?
A meteor that reaches the ground as a rock.
What is a meteorite?
These burn up in the atmosphere due to high speed and friction.
What are meteors?
Stars are born from cloud of dust and gas.
What is a nebula?
Asteroids orbit this.
What is the sun?
When the comet moves towards the Sun the Tail faces towards the sun.
True or False
What is False?
A meteor burning very brightly in the earth’s atmosphere.
What is a fireball or shooting star?
These are only visible when near the sun and their tails form as gas and dust are melted off from the sun’s energy.
What are comets?
These are the beginning of a star, it isn't fully formed yet and is being feed by the cloud of dust and gas around it. It is a baby star.
What is a protostar?
True or false- asteroids are the same as meteoroids.
What is false?
The area that comets come from.
What is the Kuiper Belts?
When at least 6 meteors fall in one hour.
What is a meteor shower?
This consists of dense solids, usually a mixture of iron & rock.
What are meteors?
This is where an adult star spends most of its life cycle.
What is main sequence?
True or false - asteroids can be seen in the sky with the use of a telescope.
What is true?
A comet has two distinct parts.
What is the head and tail?
They are sometime called shooting stars.
What is a meteor?
This consists of rock, dust, & frozen materials.
What is a comet?
Most stars are categorized as this type of star.
What is a red dwarf?
Many asteroids are found between the orbits of these two planets.
What are Mars and Jupiter?
What is the name of the most Famous Comet, that will appear in 2061?
What is Haley?
A mass of stone or metal that orbits the sun, after it has left the asteroid belt.
What is a meteoroid?
The largest one is less than half the diameter of Pluto.
What is an asteroid?
This type of star explodes to for a nebula therefore creating the cloud of dust and gas to start a stars life cycle all over again.
What is a Super Nova?