Terrestial Planets
These are the gas giants.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
There are ______ number of meteorites.
What is a 3?
Dirty Snowball
What is a comet?
Most asteroids of the solar systema are found here.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
How large are most meteoroids that strike Earth’s atmosphere?
What is about 1 cm or less?
A comet is made of.
What is ice (frozen water, CO2, CO, formaldehyde),dust, rock?
Metallic, rocky bodies without atmospheres that orbit the Sun but are too small (and not spherical) to be classified as planets.
What are Asteroids?
Which description matches that of Saturn’s rings
What is Saturn’s rings are made of particles of rock and ice?
The bright streak of light that is produced when a piece of debris burns in earth’s atmosphere
What is a meteor?
Stellar Perturbations
What are small gravitational disturbances that would cause a comet to fall inwards towards the sun?
Impact craters from asteroids.
What is appear to be a widespread solar system phenomenon?
The result of Mercury not having an atmosphere.
What is drastic temperature changes from day to night?
The Great Red Spot of Jupiter is a ________ that is most similar to the ________ of Neptune.
What is Storm ; Great Dark Spot ?
The piece of debris
What are Meteoroid?
What happens to the tail of a comet as it gets closer to the sun?
What is the tail gets longer?
The Distance in AU of the Asteroid Belt is.
What is 2.1-3.3 AU?
The highest mountain in the solar system.
What is Olympus Mons on Mars?
Which of the following is true of Uranus?
What is Uranus is orbiting the Sun slower than all of the other planets. ?
Meteor showers occur because________.
What is Earth orbits through a trail of debris?
A comet is composed of 4 parts.
What are a coma, a nucleus, a dust tail and a iron tail?
We currently know of about how many asteroids.
What is 40,000?