Scientific Notation
Space travel
Comets
Asteroids
Meteors
100
4.5 X 10^3
What is 4,500?
100
This rocket has traveled faster than any other man made object.
What is Apollo 10?
100
where many comets are located
What is the Kuiper Belt (or Oort Cloud)?
100
between Mars and Jupiter
Where is the Asteroid Belt?
100
a space rock that is completely burned up in the Earth's atmosphere
What is a meteor?
200
5.3 X 10^5
What is 530,000?
200
This is how we measure distances in our solar system.
What is an astronomical unit?
200
This causes comets' tails to get longer
What is the sun (heat)?
200
This describes the makeup of most asteroids
What is "rocky"?
200
a space rock that lands on the Earth's surface
What is a meteorite?
300
2.7 X 10^7
What is 27,000,000?
300
The number of miles from Earth to the Sun
What is 93,000,000?
300
Comets' nicknames
What is dirty snowball?
300
This causes asteroids to burn up when they enter Earth's atmosphere
What is heat/friction
300
it is the nickname for meteors entering Earth's atmosphere
What is shooting star?
400
455,000,000
What is 4.55 X 10^8?
400
Proxima Centauri
What is the closest start to the solar system?
400
the direction comets' tails face
What is away from the sun?
400
describes a thicker steak
What is meatier?
500
5,900,000,000,000
What is 5.9 X 10^12
500
The distance of a light year (in miles)
What is 5.9 trillion?
500
the shape of most comets' orbits
What is elliptical?
500
the biggest known asteroid
What is Ceres?
500
when many shooting stars occur in a short time
What is a meteor shower?