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Asteroids
Comets
Meteoroids
The Sun
Solar System
100
where most asteroids are located
What is the asteroid belt?
100
the part of a coma that is always straight
What is the gas tail?
100
the Earth passes through the orbital path of a comet
What is a meteor shower?
100
35 days
What is the rotation rate of the sun's poles?
100
during a solar eclipse
When is the corona visible?
200
the first asteroid to be discovered
What is Ceres?
200
it enters the inner solar system
What is a comet collides with another body?
200
a small bit of matter that enter's earth's atmosphere and reaches the surface
What is meterorite?
200
the length of the sunspot cycle
What is 11 years?
200
where teh ligth of the comes from
What is the photosphere?
300
scattered between Mars and Jupiter
Where is the asteroid belt found?
300
dirty iceberg
What is another name for a comet?
300
brighter than Venus
What is a fireball?
300
dark spots on teh sun
What are sunspots?
300
asteroids that cross Earth's orbit
What are Apollo asteroids?
400
Ceres, Pallas, and Vesta
What are the largest asteroids?
400
the direction of a gas tail
What is away from the sun?
400
source of meteorites
What are asteroids, Moon, Mars, and comets
400
packets of light
What are photons?
400
meteor craters on Earth
What is 200?
500
another name for asteroids
What is minor planet?
500
the period of Halley's comet
What is 76 years?
500
the air in front of a meteroid that enters our atmsophere
What is compresses and glows?
500
helium and hydrogen
What are the gases on the Sun?
500
mass added to the earth daily from meteors
What is 300 tons?