"Meteor"ologically Speaking
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En'LIGHT'ening
100
A bright streak of light caused by a meteoroid burning up in the earths atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
100
Galileo, Kepler, and Copernicus all did this job.
What is an astronomer?
100
The time it takes for a comet to go once around its orbit and return to the same spot.
What is a period?
100
The sun and everything that revolves around it.
What is the solar system?
100
The distance traveled in one year at the speed of light.
What is a light year?
200
This would be what is found on the earth after hits the earths surface.
What is a meteorite?
200
Small rocky bodies that do not have much ice in them so they do not develop tails.
What is an asteroid?
200
A hot gas of charges particles.
What is plasma?
200
Hot gases and magnetic fields that stream out of the sun in all directions at all times.
What is the solar wind?
200
A brilliant flash of light produces by a meteor that vaporizes quickly.
What is a fireball?
300
When a large number of meteoroids enter the earths atmosphere in a similar period of time.
What is a meteor shower?
300
The average distance from the earth to the sun.
What is an astronomical unit?
300
The point in the path in the orbit of a comet where it is lies closes to the sun.
What is the perihelion?
300
The cloud of gases and dust from which the solar system was formed.
What is the solar nebula?
300
Visible tail of a comet formed by sunlight reflecting from grains of dust released from the comets nucleus.
What is the dust tail?
400
Small bit of rock/metal produced by a collision between asteroids?
What is a meteoroid?
400
The region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
What is the asteroid belt?
400
The part of the comet that glows with its own light and points away from the sun.
What is the plasma tail?
400
A type of comet whose orbit lies within the solar system?
What is a short period comet?
400
The spherical cloud of dust and ice surrounding the solar system that may contains as many as a trillion comets.
What is the Oort cloud?
500
Most common type, composition is similar to earth rocks.
What is a stony meteorite?
500
This orbits the sun either in front of or behind Jupiter.
What is the Trojan asteroid?
500
Small chunks of dust, tocks and frozen gasses that condensed as the solar nebula cooled.
What are planetesimals?
500
When a solid changes directly to a gas without first melting into a liquid phase.
What is to sublimate?
500
Comet that was first viewed in 1531, that is visible every 76 years.
What is Halleys Comet?
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