This a an area between Mars and Jupiter where a majority of astroids are found.
What is the astroid belt?
100
Infrared observations are used to determine the property of an asteroids.
What is mass?
100
Comets are rich in this molecule.
What is H2O
100
The short-period comets belong to this area of the solar system.
What is the Kupier Belt?
100
This feature of an asteroid always points away from the sun.
What is the tail?
200
These are fragments that do not completely burn in the atmosphere and eventually fall on the Earth.
What are meteorites?
200
In the inner part of the asteroid belt one is more likely to find silicate-rich asteroids, while the asteroids abundant in the outer parts of the asteroid belt are rich in this element.
What is Carbon?
200
Comets are found in these two areas of the solar system.
What is the Oort cloud and Kupier Belt?
200
Long-period comets belong to this area of the solar system.
What is the Oort Cloud?
200
This is the typical size of a comet's nucleus.
What is 10km?
300
The is the common point from which meteor showers seem to diverge.
What is the radiant?
300
The gaps created by the planet Jupiter in the asteroid belt are called this.
What are Kirkwood gaps?
300
This is the reason a comet's tails streams out from the coma.
What are solar winds?
300
The is the common point from which meteor showers seem to diverge.
What is the radiant?
300
The fact that new comets continue to appear indicates the existence of this formation.
What is the Oort Cloud?
400
Meteor showers are generally named after these?
What are constellations?
400
This planet creates the gaps in the asteroid belt called Kirkwood gaps.
What is Jupiter?
400
These occur when the left over debris of a comet intersects with our atmosphere to produce streaks of light.
What is a meteor shower?
400
Objects of the Kuiper belt were detected by this Space Telescope.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
400
This comet orbits the Sun approximately every 76 years.
What is Halley's comet?
500
These meteorites contain grains from the first material that condensed out of the solar nebula.
What are Chondritic meteorites?
500
This former asteroids is now officially a dwarf planet?
What is Ceres?
500
In the process of fluorescence, this is absorbed by an atom and the energy is emitted as energy.
What is ultraviolet photons (light)
500
The Leonid meteor shower occurs in mid November when the Earth is in line with this constellation.
What is Leo?
500
This crater provides evidence that supports the assumption that a large number of living species disappeared about 65 million years ago due to a catastrophic impact?