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What are Asteroids
Different Kinds of Asteroids
Where Asteroids are Found
History of Asteroids
The Study of Asteroids
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This is not found on asteroids.
What is an atmosphere?
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A type of asteroid that is made up of small chunks of stone that are capable of entering Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteoroid?
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This is where most asteroids are found in our solar system.
What is the asteroid belt.
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Asteroids where discovered during the search for this.
What is a missing planet?
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In the 1980's the use of this greatly increased the amount of asteroid discoveries.
What is photography?
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This solar object is orbited by asteroids.
What is the sun?
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After a meteoroid eneters the Earth's atmosphere, it is called this.
What is a meteor?
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The asteroid belt is located between these two planetary orbits.
What is Mars and Jupiter?
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This Sicilian monk discovered the first asteroid, Ceres.
Who is Guiseppe Piazzi?
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Lazer Interferometer Space Antenna.
What is L.I.S.A?
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Asteroids are too small to be classified as this.
What is a planet?
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Another name for meteor.
What is a shooting star?
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These asteroids exist in two clusters on either side of Jupiter.
What is Trojan asteroids?
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This many years ago, an iron meteorite hits Arizona.
What is 50,000?
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N.E.A is used by astronomers when studying asteroids in space.
What is a near Earth asteroid?
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This Earth element has been found on many asteroids.
What is water?
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A meteor that hits the Earth.
What is a meteorite?
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This type of asteroid crosses Earth's orbit and may even come closer to Earth than the moon.
What is Apollo asteroid?
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This many years ago, an impact on Argentina precedes numerous extinctions and and global cooling.
What is 3.3 million.
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This theory of Einstein's helps astronomers gain information such as size, density, location and motion as they pass through on their way to Earth.
What is Einstein's General Theory of Relativity?
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The average size of an asteroid measures approximately 930 miles in diameter or about half the size of this object.
What is the moon?
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This space object is made up of ice and also orbit the sun
What is a comet?
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The distance from the asteroid belt to the sun.
What is 2.1 to 3.3 AUs?
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65 million years ago a city- sized asteroid bombarded this peninsula leaving an impact crater 110- 170 miles wide.
What is Yucatan?
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In 2008, NASA scientists, European Space Agency, and others gathered to discuss the use of asteroid deflection technology at this conference.
What is the International Symposium on Asteroid Deflection Technology Conference?