Comets
Another name for a comet
What is a dirty snowball.
What is shooting stars and falling stars?
Little planets described as mountains in space
What is planetoids?
This short-period comet appears every 76 years
What is Halley's Comet?
The definition of an asteroid
What are large rocks?
A comet leaves 3 things behind as it orbits the sun
What is gas, dust, and dirt.
The majority of the meteorites have been found in this continent
What is Antartica?
The name of the asteroid that looks like a dog bone
What is Kleopatra?
The biggest and brightest comet seen from Earth in the last century
What is Hale-Bopp?
The definition of a meteor
What is a streak of light, often called a shooting star, which is the result of a meteoroid burning up in Earth's atmosphere?
What is it lights on fire and looks like a shooting star?
The planet where some meteorites have came from
What is Mars?
Planetoids found between Mars and Jupiter
What is the asteroid belt?
The comet that made history when it came too close to Jupiter in 1992
What is Shoemaker-Levy 9?
The definition of a comet
What is a piece of ice and rock from the solar system, often including a coma and a tail?
A bunch of rock that forms the center of the comet
What is a nucleus?
This appears every August and gives us 50 shooting stars every hour
What is the Perseid meteor shower?
The outer planets of the asteroid belt
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
This happened in 1994 to the pieces of Shoemaker-Levy 9 while approaching Jupiter again
What is they were pulled right into the planet by its gravity, and they crashed into Jupiter for 6 days causing giant explosions on the gassy surface of Jupiter?
The definition of meteorites
What is a meteor that hits the Earth?
The first NASA spacecraft designed specifically to study a comet
What is Stardust?
The weight of the largest meteorite found on Earth
What is 60 tons?
Two reasons that support the Exploded Planet Hypothesis
What are craters are found mostly on one side of many planets and moons; comets look like asteroids and could be pieces of this planet; Mars has the deepest craters and is the closest planet to the asteroid belt; many moons look like comets and asteroids?
The astronomer who discovered Halley's Comet
Who is Edmund Halley?
Define the Exploded Planet Hypothesis
What is all the asteroids in the Asteroid Belt were once a planet that explodes?