Asteroids
this area is home to millions of asteroids.
What is the asteroid belt?
When near the sun in their orbit, a comet produces this which glows or reflects sunlight.
What is a comet's tail?
A meteor that reaches the ground as a rock.
These burn up in the atmosphere due to friction.
What are meteors?
An icy body that releases gasses as it orbits the sun.
What is a comet?
Asteroids orbit this.
What is the sun?
This space probe landed on a comet.
What is Rosetta?
A meteoroid burning very brightly in the earth’s atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
These are only visible when near the sun and their tails form as gas and dust are melted off from the sun’s energy.
What are comets?
A rocky or metallic fragment of an asteroid, comet or planet.
What is a meteoroid?
Astronomers began finding asteroids in this century.
What are the 1800s?
Surrounds the nucleus of a comet and contains mainly ice, dust particles and gases.
The number of meteors that become meteorites.
What is one out of every million?
This consists of dense solids, usually a mixture of iron & rock.
What are meteors?
The streak of light that is seen when a meteoroid heats up in the atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
Asteroids have such small masses, making gravity so weak that the asteroid doesn't even have this.
What is an atmosphere?
The name of the most viewed comet in history
What is the Hale-Bopp Comet?
Meteors that fall collectively at the same time.
Usually the result of the earth going through meteoroids from a comet that crossed the earth’s orbit.
What are shower meteors?
This consists of rock, dust, & frozen materials.
What is a comet?
A rocky body that is smaller than a planet that orbits the sun.
What is an asteroid?
Many asteroids are found between the orbits of these two planets.
What are Mars and Jupiter?
The type of comets that take less than 200 years to complete one orbit.
What are short period comets?
A mass of stone or metal that orbits the sun, but is too small to be called a minor planet.
What is a meteoroid?
The largest one is less than half the diameter of Pluto.
What is an asteroid?
A meteor fragment that reaches the ground.
What is a meteorite?