Asteroids
They orbit the ____ and the process of them orbiting is ____ orbit
Sun, Elliptical
The three types of meteors
Meteor, Meteorite, Meteoroid
A comet
A large frozen mass of gas and dust
They formed by ____ from the Big Bang
Dust
A meteoroid
Solid rock coming from space and crashing into the earths atmosphere.
Where comets come from
The Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud
Asteroids come from____
The asteroid belt
A Meteorite
A meteoroid coming to earth and hits the surface
A comet’s parts and structure
Nucleus, Coma, Tail
Asteroids rotates on its axis and have their own____.
Moon/ smaller asteroids
A Meteor
Meteoroid getting hot and blazing in the atmosphere
A Comet’s orbital shape
In an elongated oval around the sun
The amount of asteroids theorized to be in the Solar System
1.1 million
The reason why a meteor forms
It gets heated up due to the compression, and friction of it hitting the atmosphere
A comets tail can be as long as_________
The distance from Earth to Venus