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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)

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
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.

Many sizes

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

Name 2 asteroid belts

kuiper asteroid belt and asteroid belt between mars and Jupiter

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?