Starts with "A"
"CAM" wow
Free Falling
Three Musketeers
Crazy "C's"
100
Rocky mass that orbits the sun
What is an asteroid?
100
These can be hundreds of feet to hundreds of miles deep and wide.
What is a crater?
100
Shooting or Falling Stars
What is a meteor?
100
Smaller pieces of asteroids
What are meteoroids?
100
A dirty snowball made of gas, dust, ice, and small bits of rock.
What is a comet?
200
The Meteor Crater is found in what state
What is Arizona?
200
Billions of these are found in our solar system.
What is an asteroid?
200
This part of the comet points away from the Sun as it is traveling from the Oort Cloud.
What is the tail?
200
Meteoroids that hit the Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
200
Daily Double: Moon and Mercury
What is where craters can be found?
300
Meteorites can be found everywhere on Earth including this continent.
What is Antarctica?
300
Halley's, Hale-Bopp, Hyakutake, West
What are comets?
300
Daily Double: NEA
What are Near Earth Asteroids?
300
Meteors that make it to Earth.
What is a meteorite?
300
Nucleus, Coma, Tail 1, Tail 2
What are the parts of a comet?
400
The belt located betwee Jupiter and Mars
What is the Asteroid Belt?
400
Can be as large as cars and as small as pebbles. (2)
What are meteoroids and meteorites?
400
Perseids, Geminids
What are meteor showers?
400
Can cause damage or craters
What are meteorites?
400
Dents or holes made by meteorites
What is a crater?
500
The meteor shower, Perseids, can be seen during this month.
What is August?
500
Have stretched or elliptical orbits around the Sun. (2)
What are comets and asteriods?
500
Asteroids travel from these
What are the Asteroid and Kuiper Belt?
500
Floating around in our solar system Hit the Earth's atmosphere Made it to Earth
What are meteoroids, meteors, and meteorities?
500
Their orbits can take them many years to come back around the Sun.
What is a comet?
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