Lumpy Potatoes
Dirty Snowballs
Rocks in Space
I've Been Hit!
Potpourri
100
Between Jupiter and Mars
What is the location of most asteroids
100
Head and tail
What are the 2 parts of a comet?
100
A small rocky object orbiting the sun in space
What is a meteoroid?
100
It's evidence that a meteor has hit the earth
What is a crater?
100
They come from random directions.
What is a sporadic meteor?
200
Less than half the size of Pluto
What is the size of the largest asteroid?
200
Mainly gas, straight, forms quickly
What is a Type I tail?
200
Shooting star
What is a meteor?
200
If you find a meteorite, it's probably this kind
What is a stone?
200
If you are a comet you'll be closest to the sun at this point.
What is the perihelion?
300
Icarus
What is the asteroid with the closest orbit to the sun?
300
75-76 years
What is the period of Halley's comet?
300
An exploding meteor
What is a bolide (fireball)?
300
Tunguska, Siberia
What is the location of a comet exploding before it hit?
300
Perseids and Leonids
What are the 2 annual meteor showers?
400
A group in 'front' of Jupiter and a group 'behind' Jupiter
What are the Trojan asteroids?
400
The most solid part of a comet
What is the nucleus?
400
After midnight
When are meteors best seen?
400
Widmanstatten lines
What are founds in polished iron meteors
400
The gravity of large planets can fracture them
What are comets?
500
Tilted orbits
Why are most asteroids not a threat to Earth?
500
Nucleus and coma
What is the head of a comet?
500
Stone, irons, and stony irons
What are the 3 types of meteors?
500
The earth passes through the remnants of a comet's tail
Why do we have meteor showers?
500
Ellipse
What is the shape of a periodic comet's orbit?
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