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?
The force of attraction between two or more objects
What is gravity?
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?
What is a 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?
What two factors affects the strength of gravity.
What is mass and distance.
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?
The tendency for an object to resist a change in motion. (At rest, stays at rest / or an object in motion stays in motion)
What is inertia?
Many asteroids are found between the orbits of these two planets.
What is Mars and Jupiter?
Over a billion comets are grouped out in this area of space.
What is the Oort Cloud?
A mass of stone or metal that orbits the sun, but is smaller than a grain of sand or sometimes the size of a pebble.
What is a meteoroid?
This consists of rock, dust, & frozen materials.
What is a comet?
The red arrow represents this in the model below.
What is gravity?
The blue arrow represents this in the model below.
What is inertia?