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Asteroid
Comet
Meteor
100
Asteroids are small Solar System bodies that orbit this.
What is the sun?
100
True or False... A comet is a relatively small solar system body that orbits the Sun.
What is "True"?
100
A small rock or particle of debris in our solar system.
What is a meteoroid?
200

Asteroids are made of this.

What is rock and metal

200
Comets are made of these things.
What is ice, dust, and small rocky particles.
200
A meteoroid that burns up as it passes through the Earth’s atmosphere.
What is a meteor.
300
True or false: Asteroids are also known as planetoids or minor planets.
What is "True"
300

People long ago described comets as ________ because of their tail. 

What is a hairy stars.

300
A meteoroid that survives falling through the Earth’s atmosphere and colliding with the Earth’s surface.
What is a meteorite?
400

This Planet that helps protect the inner planets from asteroids by pulling them towards it because of its strong graviational pull.

What is Jupiter. 

400

the glow of ice melting off into vapor is called the _____. 

What is the tail of a comet

400
When many meteors occur in a close time frame in the same part of the sky...
What is a meteor shower?
500

This is the where MOST asteroids come from.

What is the Asteroid Belt. 

500

This comet can be seen with the naked eye from Earth every 75 to 76 years.

What is Halley's Comet?

500

Most meteoroids that cause meteors are about the size of a ______.

What is pebble.