Constellations
What is how many constellations are there?
88
Asteroids are made mostly of this
This is what comets are made of.
What are dust and ice?
Where do meteors originate from?
What is a rock that breaks out of the asteroid belt and travels on its own?
What is the difference between the terms waxing and waning?
Waxing = getting larger
Waning = getting smaller
Who is Orion?
the hunter
Most asteroids are found between these 2 planets
What are Mars & Jupiter?
This is the name of a famous comet.
What is Halley's Comet?
Wild 2
Borrelly
Hartley 2
Tempel 1
The Milky Way is this shape of a galaxy.
What is a spiral?
Phase of the moon when it is between a full moon and third quarter
Waning gibbous
What are constellations that can be seen every night? Give an example
Constellations that can be seen every night. Big dipper, little dipper, cassiopeia, cepheus
Biggest asteroid
Ceres, 620 miles across
This is the year when we will see Halley's Comet next
What is 2061-2062?
This is when a meteor turns into a meteorite.
What is when a meteor flies through the Earth's atmosphere without burning up and hits the surface of the Earth?
Moon phase when a lunar eclipse can occur?
Full moon
This is what the North Star is also known as and it is part of this constellation
Polaris and the Little Dipper (Ursa Minor)
This is one feature the Earth and asteroids have in common.
What is they both rotate around a central axis?
Comets orbits are shaped like this.
What is elliptical (football shaped)?
What is a meteor shower? Name an example of an annual meteor shower.
Earth passes through the path of a comet
Perseids
Geminids
Leonids
The moon is approximately _____ the size of the Earth.
1/4 (25%)
Name the constellations that contain the following stars:
Polaris
Betelgeuse
Sirius
Polaris - Ursa Minor (Little Dipper)
Betelgeuse (Orion)
Sirius (Canis Major)
What are three types of asteroids? (what are they made of?)
Carbon-outer region of belt
Silicon- inner region of belt
Metal-scattered throughout
This is how the tail of the comet is formed.
What is as the comet comes close to the Sun it melts and leaves behind a tail of gas?
Name the three types of galaxies.
Which galaxy type is most common?
Spiral, Elliptical, Irregular
Spiral galaxies are most common
Why does the moon have so many craters?
Asteroids and Meteors collide with it because it has no atmosphere. Earth has an atmosphere that causes many smaller asteroids and meteors to burn up before they hit the surface of Earth.