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Comets
Asteroids
Dwarf Planets
Kuiper Belt
Meteors, Meteorites, and Meteoroids
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What is a comet?
What is a small body of ice, rock, and dust.
100
What is an asteroid?
What is rocky, leftovers of planet formation in space.
100
What is a dwarf planet?
What is a celestial body that orbits the sun.
100
What is the Kuiper Belt?
What is a disk of objects beyond the orbit of Neptune.
100
What is a meteor?
What is a bright streak of light that results when a meteoroid burns up in Earth's atmosphere.
200
What is a comet made of?
What is a nucleus and a tail.
200
Which asteroids are most commonly found: Large asteroids or small asteroids?
What are small asteroids.
200
What are the largest dwarf planets compared to?
What is the Earth's moon.
200
What is a Kuiper Belt compared to?
What is it is compared to an asteroid belt.
200
What is a meteorite?
What is a rock that falls from space through the atmosphere and lands on the Earth.
300
When does a comet get a tail?
What is when it enters the inner solar system.
300
What are asteroids also known as?
What are planetoids or minor planets.
300
How many dwarf planets are in the solar system?
What are five dwarf planets.
300
What is in the Kuiper Belt?
What does contain many small and large objects such as Pluto and other dwarf planters.
300
What is a meteoroid?
What is a rock in space prone to become a meteor.
400
How fast can a comet travel?
What is 445 km/s.
400
Asteroids are not round, but _______ (fill in the blank)
What is cratered.
400
No dwarf planets have ever been visited by _______ (fill in the blank)
What are space probes.
400
What was the first Kuiper Belt Object to be seen?
What is Pluto.
400
How many meteor showers are seen on Earth each year?
What is 30 meteor showers.
500
What happens to most comets in the outer solar system?
What is they remain frozen.
500
All of the asteroids in the solar system combined wouldn't add up to even a ____ ______ _____ (fill in the blank)
What is a small terrestrial planet.
500
What are the names of the five dwarf planets? (list two)
What are Ceres, Pluto, Hamuea, Makemake, and Eris.
500
What is the largest dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt?
What is Ceres.
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When did the first meteorites form?
What is 4.5 billion years.