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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 (they can also contain organic compounds)
300
True or false: Asteroids are also known as planetoids or minor planets.
What is "True"
300
The name comet comes from..
What is... The Greek word meaning ‘hair of the head’, it came from the Greek philosopher Aristotle who observed comets as ‘stars with hair’
300
A meteoroid that survives falling through the Earth’s atmosphere and colliding with the Earth’s surface.
What is a meteorite?
400
The size of Asteroids.
What is as small as ten metres while others stretch out over hundreds of kilometres.
400
the glow of ice melting off into vapor.
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
The asteroid Belt is located here.
What is the area that lies roughly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in the Solar System.
500
This comet can be seen with the naked eye from Earth every 75 to 76 years.
What is Halley's Comet?
500
The fastest meteoroids travel through the solar system at a speed of around...
What is 42 kilometres per second?