Asteroids
This is the most common type of asteroid and is made mostly of carbon
What is a C-type asteroid?
This part of a comet is its solid center.
What is the nucleus?
What is Neptune?
Most Asteroids orbit the Sun in this region.
What is the Asteroid Belt?
This is the largest object in the Asteroid Belt.
What is Ceres?
Most Asteroids have this shape because their gravity is too weak to make them round.
What is an irregular shape?
This fuzzy cloud surrounds a comet's nucleus
What is the coma?
The Kuiper Belt is approximately this many AU from the Sun.
What is 30-55 AU.
The Asteroid Belt lies between these 2 planets.
What are Jupiter and Mars?
These are the two small moons of Mars that are likely captured Asteroids.
What are Phobos and Deimos?
This Asteroid type is made mostly of metalls.
What is an M-type asteroid?
Name one of the two tails found on a comet.
What is the dust tail?
What is the ion tail?
Most objects in the Kuiper Belt are made primarily of this.
What is Ice?
These empty regions in the Asteroid Belt are caused by Jupiter's gravity.
What are Kirkwood Gaps?
A planet must clear this in order to be considered a true planet.
What is its orbital neighborhood?
About this percentage of near-Earth asteroids have a moon?
What is about 16%?
As a comet gets close to the sun, this happens to its ice.
What is it vaporizes/sublimates?
The most recognized dwarf planets are found in this region.
What is the Kuiper belt?
The Asteroid Belt is located about this many AU from the sun.
What is 2-4 AU?
Ceres contains about this fraction of the total mass of the Asteroid Belt.
What is ~one-third?
NASA intentionally crashed what spacecraft into Dimorphos in 2022?
What is DART?
This is where most comets come from.
What is the Oort Cloud or Kuiper Belt?
This is the region beyond the Kuiper Belt.
These asteroids share a planet's orbit 60 degrees ahead or behind it.
What are Trojan / Greek Asteroids?
These three requirements must all be met for an object to be classified as a planet.
What are: (1) orbit a star, (2) be nearly spherical due to its own gravity, and (3) clear its orbital neighborhood?