Asteroids
A C-type asteroid mostly consists of this element.
What is carbon?
A nickname for comets used by scientists.
What is a dirty snowball?
Space rocks that originate from asteroids.
A model used to explain the big bang theory.
What is the raisin bread model?
The force of attraction between objects that have mass.
What is gravity?
The main asteroid belt is between the orbits of these two planets.
What is Mars and Jupiter?
The main solid part of a comet.
What is a nucleus?
Blazing rock in the earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
Matter era dominated over the radiation era. True or False.
What is False: The radiation era dominated over the matter era?
Farthest planet from the sun.
What is Neptune?
An NEA is
What is a Near-Earth Asteroid?
The halo of evaporated gas and dust around the nucleus.
What is a coma?
Also known as shooting stars.
What is a meteor?
The formation of stars created a ripple effect and shaped the universe during this epoch.
What is the stellar epoch?
Continual forward motion.
What is inertia?
These asteroids share an orbit with Jupiter.
What is a Trojan Asteroid?
A short period comet is located here.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
A meteor that survived earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteorite?
Hydrogen was created during this epoch.
What is the atomic epoch?
Movement around the orbit of planets or other celestial bodies.
What is revolution?
NEA's that cross Earths orbit.
What is an Earth Crosser?
Electrically charged gas particles.
What is the gas tail?
What is a stony-iron meteorite?
Clumps of gas collapse to form the first stars during this period.
What is the galactic epoch?
Known as the Morning and Evening star.
What is Venus?