Asteroids
this area is home to millions of asteroids.
What is the 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.
These burn up in the atmosphere due to friction.
What are meteors?
This type of meteorite is the most common type of meteorite found on the earth’s surface.
What is stony meteorite?
Asteroids orbit this.
What is the sun?
This space probe landed on a comet.
What is Rosetta?
A meteoroid burning very brightly in the earth’s atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
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?
Carbon, Silicate and Metallic are the _______.
What are the three classes of asteroids?
Astronomers began finding asteroids in this century.
What are the 1800s?
Surrounds the nucleus of a comet and contains mainly ice, dust particles and gases.
A meteor that comes at a random time from one specific direction.
What is a sporadic meteor?
This consists of dense solids, usually a mixture of iron & rock.
What are meteors?
The minor planets are named in order of this.
What is named in order of discovery?
Asteroids have such small masses, making gravity so weak that the asteroid doesn't even have this.
What is an atmosphere?
The type I tail of a comet is a straight tail formed by this.
What are gases being pushed off by solar wind?
Meteors that fall collectively at the same time.
Usually the result of the earth going through meteoroids from a comet that crossed the earth’s orbit.
What are shower meteors?
This consists of rock, dust, & frozen materials.
What is a comet?
If you found a meteorite on the ground, you would know at first glance that it could be a meteorite if it is this color on the outside.
What is black in color?
Many asteroids are found between the orbits of these two planets.
What are Mars and Jupiter?
The type II tail of a comet is a curved tail formed by this.
What is dust being pushed off from the sun's rays.
A mass of stone or metal that orbits the sun, but is too small to be called a minor planet.
What is a meteoroid?
The largest one is less than half the diameter of Pluto.
What is an asteroid?
These asteroids orbit 60 degrees ahead of or behind Jupiter but at the same orbital distance as Jupiter
What is a Trojan asteroids