Meteoroids
Asteroids
Comets
Pot Luck
100
This is a shooting star.
What is a meteor?
100
If the sun were the size of a door and the earth the size of a nickel, then Ceres, the biggest in the asteroid belt would be the size of this.
What is a sesame seed?
100
If the sun were the size of a door, and the earth a nickel, then a comet would be the size of this.
What is a grain of dust?
100
Solid, rocky, and irregular bodies are this.
What is an asteroid?
200
This comes from space and stikes the ground.
What is a meteorite?
200
The objects orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter is called this.
What is the Asteroid Belt?
200
Comets that come back to our solar system every few years are this AND comets that come back rarely if ever are called this.
What are short term and long term comets?
200
Cosmic snowballs of frozen gas, rock, and dust.
What is a comet?
300
These are named after a star or a constellation and light up the sky with streaks of color.
What is a meteor shower?
300
Days and years on asteroids are: the same, vary, or are retrograde.
What is vary?
300
Comets have this many moons and rings.
What is zero?
300
The largest asteroid, considered a dwarf planet and closest to the sun is named this.
What is Ceres?
400
THIS can be defined as space debris or space trash AND we see them often times when the earth goes through THIS.
What is meteoroid and the dusty trail of a comet?
400
150+ asteroids have this.
What is a companion moon or two?
400
A comet will warm up near the sun and form this first.
What is a coma?
400
The three parts of a comet.
What are the tail, coma, and nucleus?
500
This is what meteorites can be made of. (3 answers)
What are iron, stony, or both iron and stony?
500
This is the number of space craft that have observed asteroids.
What 10+?
500
There have been this number of missions sent to observe comets.
What is 20+?
500
Objects that revolve around the sun that are too small and too numerous to be called planets are this.
What are asteroids?
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