"shooting stars"
Objects in space that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids
What is meteoroids?
S types short for
what is "stony"?
Are large enough to be pulled into orbit around the Sun, but not considered planets
What is dwarf planets?
What is the tail?
Common name referring to meteor, meteoroids, metorites
What is "shooting stars"?
When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere at high speed and burn up
What is meteors?
M types
What is metallic?
The origin of Pluto's name
What is the Greek and Roman God of the underworld?
A cloud of gas that contains very little mass
What is a coma?
The smallest size of asteroids
What is 1 meter?
When a meteoroid survives in trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground
What is meteorites?
Description of Asteroids
What is rocky, metallic, or icy bodies?
Smaller major objects beyond planets
(No abbreviations)
What is Trans-Neptunian?
The first person to look at a comet’s nucleus using the Giotto spacecraft
What is Halley?
Largest size of asteroids
What is 1000 km (diameter)?
Stony meteorites
What is achondrites?
C types short for
What is chondrite?
Charon's orbit time around Pluto
(Exact)
What is 6.4 days?
The 2 tails comet form when closer to the sun
What is ion tail and dust tail?
This causes the life span of comets to shorten
What is the Sun?
Formed when small grains called chondrites in the early Solar System accreted to form primitive asteroids
What is chondrules?
Formation time of Asteroids
What is millions of years after the formation of the solar system?
The TNO with an extended orbit beyond the standard Kuiper belt
What is Sedna?
Most comets believed to come from here
What is Oort Cloud?
Time period between large meteoroids hitting Earth
What is every 1000 years?