Asteroids
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Meteors
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Where are most asteroids located?

In the asteroid belt

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What is the nickname of a comet?

Dirty snowball

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What is the nickname of a meteor?

Shooting star

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How are comets, asteroids, and meteors all the same?

They are all left overs from the formation of the solar system.

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What 2 planets is the Asteroid Belt in between?

Mars and Jupiter

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What is a comet made of?

Rock, ice and dust materials

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What is a meteoroid made of?

Rocky material and dust

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How are meteors and asteroids the same?

They are both made from rocky material.

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What is an asteroid made of?

Ricky material and dust

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What are the 3 parts of a comet?

Nucleus, coma and tail

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What do we call it when a meteor hits Earth or another planet?

Meteorite

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What is 1 difference between a comet and an asteroid?

A comet has ice in it and an asteroid doesn’t.

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How are asteroids shaped?

They are irregular in shape and battered by impact cratering.

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How is the tail of a comet made?

Gases that are leaving the coma from the heat of the Sun

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Where are meteroids located?

In space

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Why are comets different than both asteroids and meteors?

Comets have a nucleus and a coma and neither a meteor nor an asteroid has those things.