Astroids
Most astroids orbit in an area called the _____________.
Astroid Belt
Meteorites fall all over the earth. True or False?
True
Name 2 things that comets are made up of?
What is rock, dust, gas, grit, minerals, and ice.
Helios is greek for __________
The sun
This is the brightest star in the nights sky from Earth?
What is Sirius?
Astroids are mostly solid rock. True or False.
True
Meteors are mostly made up of ice. True or False.
False
The Great Comet of 1744 is known to have 6 tails. True or False.
True
What is the Geocentric Model?
What is the Earth is at the center of the Solar System
Name two of the ways stars are classified?
What is brightness, size, color, distance from earth, temp. and motion.
Most astriods are found between these two planets.
What are Mars and Jupiter.
A meteor that is falling through the earths atmosphere is called a ____________?
Shooting star or meteorite.
What is a nickname for comets?
What is a dirty snow balls.
Johannes Kepler said that the Earth orbits the sun in a(n) __________ shape.
What is elliptical?
What color is the hottest stars?
Blue.
If all Astriods in the astriod belt were put together, they would be about the size of ______________?
Smaller than earths moon.
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Astronomer known to first apply the laws of astronomy to comets.
Who is Edmond Halley?
What THEORY did Copernicus create or come up with?
What is the Heliocentric theory.
What color is the coolest stars with a surface temperature of only about 5400 degrees F?
Red
The largest astriod discovers in 1801 and is now considered to be a dwarf planet is called?
What is Ceres?
The largest meteorite ever discovered is the Hoba meteorite, found in _____________? (Country and Continent.)
Namibia, Africa in 1920.
Halleys Comet appears from the earth every _______ years?
75-76
During what time period or dates did Nicolaus Copernicus live?
What is 1473 - 1543.
Stars are formed by huge clouds of dust and gas called?
Nebulae.