Asteroids
Where do Asteroids come from?.
What is an 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.
What is a meteorite?
These burn up in the atmosphere due to high speed and friction.
What are meteors?
One day.
What is rotation?
Asteroids orbit this.
What is the sun?
When the comet moves towards the Sun the Tail faces towards the sun.
True or False
What is False?
A meteor burning very brightly in the earth’s atmosphere.
What is a fireball or shooting star?
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?
One year.
What is revolution?
True or false- asteroids are the same as meteoroids.
What is false?
The area that comets come from.
What is the Kuiper Belts?
When at least 6 meteors fall in one hour.
What is a meteor shower?
This consists of dense solids, usually a mixture of iron & rock.
What are meteors?
Day and night.
What is rotation?
True or false - asteroids can be seen in the sky with the use of a telescope.
What is true?
Over a billion comets are grouped out in this area of space.
What is the Oort Cloud?
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This consists of rock, dust, & frozen materials.
What is a comet?
Planets moving in an elliptical path around the sun.
What is revolution?
Many asteroids are found between the orbits of these two planets.
What are Mars and Jupiter?
What is the name of the most Famous Comet, that will appear in 2061?
What is Haley?
A mass of stone or metal that orbits the sun, but is smaller than a grain of sand or sometimes the size of a pebble.
What is a meteoroid?
The largest one is less than half the diameter of Pluto.
What is an asteroid?
Which planet is unique in its rotation when compared to other planets?
What is Uranus?