What is a body of space which is larger than a grain of dust?
100
Approximately how many meteorites have been found in the ice of Antartica?
What is 10,000 meteorites?
200
What are the two main things that a comet is made of?
What is dust and ice?
200
True or false are asteroids irregularly shaped?
What is true?
200
True or false meteors are rare?
What is false?
200
What is a meteoroid that collides with the earths surface called?
What is a meteorite?
200
Meteorites fall into three different categories called?
What are the irons, chondrites, and stony-irons.
300
What is the nucleus made out of?
What is a small rocky core?
300
What is another name for an asteroid?
What are minor planets?
300
True or false meteors are mostly made of copper?
What is false? they are mostly made of iron
300
What is a meteoroid that burns up as it passes through the earths atmosphere?
What is a meteor?
300
What is a type of stony-iron meteorite?
What is a pallasite? Pallasites are among the most attractive meteorites to be found, consisting of rich greenish olivine crystals set in an iron matrix.
400
Where do comets come from?
What are the Kuiper belts, and Oort cloud?
400
What are the three types of asteroids?
What is C, S, M asteroids?
400
What happens when meteors occur at the same time?
What is a meteor shower? When many meteors occur in a close time frame in the same part of the sky it is called a meteor shower.
400
True or false are meteoroids big?
What is false? Most meteoroids are no bigger than a pebble
400
Are meteorites parts of the Moon or Mars?
What are the Moon and Mars?
500
When does Halley's comet come to earth?
What is every 75 to 76 years? Edmond Halley worked out that the comet would make its appearance every 75 to 76 years.
500
True or false do asteroids have their own moons?
What is true? More than 150 asteroids are known to have a small companion moon (some have two moons).
500
What do you call a meteor that produces light?
What is a fireball? When a meteor produces enough light to cast a shadow on the earth it is called a fireball.
500
How fast does an average meteoroid travel in kilometers per second?
What is 42 kilometers per second?
500
What are the rarest meteorites to be found?
What are stony-iron meteorites? The rarest of the three are the stony-iron meteorites. They are a mixture of stony and metallic materials.