Asteroids
What asteroid were supposed to become.
What is a planet?
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 friction.
What are meteors?
One day.
What is rotation?
Asteroids orbit this.
What is the sun?
Frozen liquids and gases within the head of a comet.
What are ices?
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?
One year.
What is revolution?
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?
Day and night.
What is rotation?
True or false - asteroids can be seen in the sky with the use of a telescope.
What is true?
Over a billion comets are grouped out in this area of space.
What is the Oort Cloud?
The best time to see a meteor shower.
When is mid August or mid October?
This consists of rock, dust, & frozen materials.
What is a comet?
Planets moving in an elliptical path around the sun.
What is revolution?
Many asteroids are found between the orbits of these two planets.
What are Mars and Jupiter?
How long it takes a comet to orbit the earth.
What is 100 years.
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?
Daily Double
- The fancy name of the orbit of the earth for spring.
What is vernal equinox?