Comets
Where are comets made of?
What is ice, rocks,dust and frozen gases.
The burning up of the rock in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
Where are asteroids found in the Solar System?
What is the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter?
What are the three ways to classify something as a planet?
What is: 1. have enough gravity to be spherical shaped, 2. orbit the sun. 3. dominates it's own orbit
Why isn't Pluto a planet?
What is it does not dominate it's own orbit?
What are the four parts to a comet?
Dust tail, gas tail, coma and nucleus
When the meteoroid hits the surface of the Earth, it is known as ______________.
What is a meteorite?
What are asteroids made of?
What is rock and metals?
How many dwarf planets are in our solar system?
What is 5
What dwarf planet is shaped like a football and why?
What is Haumea and because of how fast it is spinning on it's axis
What happens to the comet as it approaches or comes closer to the Sun?
What is the tail will be longer due to the heating up of the ice ball and it will speed up because of the gravity of the Sun.
A small space rock that orbits around in space and normally breaks off from a comet or asteroid.
What is a meteoroid?
What is it thought that happened to the Earth by an asteroid years ago? "What is the theory?"
What is it caused the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and left large craters?
Which dwarf planet is in the Asteroid belt?
What is Ceres?
How many moons are there is our solar system?
What is 200?
How is the orbit of the comet different than the orbit of an asteroid?
What is the comet makes an ellipse orbit starting from the Kuiper belt or Oort cloud where most asteroids are found in the Asteroid belt.
In what state did a meteorite strike in the U.S.? What is the name of the hole given for the meteorite?
What is Arizona and crater?
Where are most meteoroids found?
What is in space, most in the asteriod belt.
What dwarf planet caused Pluto to not be classified as a planet anymore?
What is Eris?
What is the most volcanic moon in the solar system?
What is Io?
Where are comets found in the Solar System?
What is the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto or the Oort Cloud?
How do we get meteor showers?
What is the orbit of Earth and the orbit of the comet meet where the tail of the comet full of meteoroids is left in a trail of dust and shine down on the Earth?
What do astronomers think asteroids are?
What is they believe that asteroids are remains of when the planets formed.
Where are most dwarf planets found?
What is the Kuiper belt?
What makes something a moon and not a planet?
What is the object does not orbit the sun it orbits a planet or dwarf planet.