Astroids
The location of astroids
They are located in the astroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter
The location of meteors
They are located in Earths atmosphere
The location of comets
They are found in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud
Astroids are made of?
They are made of rock, metals, and some people think they were made form cosmic dust.
Meteors are made of
They are made up of small pieces of rock or metal called meteoroids
Comets are made of
They are made of ice, dust, and small rocky particles
How do asteroids move
They revolve around the sun, and revolve around a central axis
How do meteors move
They move between 11-72 kilometers a second, and they move towards Earth
How do comets move
They move in elliptical orbits around the sun
Unique features about asteroids
Astroids can have irregular shapes, they can have moons/rings, some have water, and the mass of all the asteroids in the solar system is less than the moon
Unique features about meteors
They can appear in different colors based on their chemical composition, meteors can range in size from a grain of sand to the size of an asteroid, and they can be up to 3000 degrees Fahrenheit
Unique features about comets
Comets are sometimes called “dirty snowballs”, comets can be a few miles wide to tens of miles wide, and they can be broken up by the sun’s gravity
What is the texture of asteroids
They are rocky and metallic
What is the difference between a meteor, meteoroid and meteorite
Meteoroids are small rocky bodies in space, meteors are when meteoroids enter the atmosphere and begins to burn up, and meteorites are the meteors that survive the trip in Earths atmosphere
Identify the nucleus, coma, and tail of a comet
the "nucleus" is the solid, icy core, the "coma" is the hazy cloud of gas and dust surrounding the nucleus, and the "tail" is the long stream of gas and dust particles that extends away from the comet