Parts of a comet
When the gas and dust of a comet spread outward.
What is the tail?
What is an asteroid usually made up of?
What is silicate rocks and clay rocks?
What are meteoroids?
What is a chunk of rock and dust in space?
The scientific nickname given for a comet
What is a dirty snowball?
made up of the nucleus and the coma, and is the brightest part of the comet.
What is the head?
Where do astroids usually orbit?
What is orbiting between Jupiter and mars?
What are meteors made up of?
What is iron, space dust, and nickel?
What are comets made of?
What are ice, dust, and rocks
What part of a comet is the nucleus?
What is the solid inner core of a comet
How big might an asteroid be?
what is less than a kilometer in diamater?
The process in which a meteor is created
What is when a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere and then breaks apart and bUrns up creating a meteor.
A comet is
What are loose collections of ice, dust, and small rocky particles whose orbits are usually narrow ellipses?
A fuzzy layer of dust surrounding the nucleus
What is the coma?
What is the difference between a meteor and astroid
What is an asteroid is a small rocky object that orbits the sun. A meteor is when a small piece of an asteroid or comet burns up entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
Many small _________ are constantly hitting Earth.
What are meteors
Where could comets mostly be found?
What is the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud?
The nucleus is made of
What is rocky material and frozen gasses
Is an asteroid and a meteor the same thing ?
what is no?
How do meteroids form?
what is when multiple asteroids collide with one and other to create a meteoroid.
(Another example could be when a comet breaks apert to become meteoroids)
The Kuiper belt is.
What is a doughnut-shaped region that extends from beyond Neptune's orbit?