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Asteroids
Comets
Dwarf Planets
Constellations
Meteoroids
100
Asteroids are composed of this material.
What is rock?
100
Asteroids are made up of these three materials.
What are ice, rock, and dust?
100
These are the three dwarf planets.
What are Ceres, Pluto, and Eris?
100
Constellations are this.
What are groupings of stars?
100
This is the definition of a meteoroid.
What is a space rock that orbit the sun?
200
This is another name for asteroids.
What is minor planets or planetoids?
200
These are the three parts of a comet.
What are the tail, nucleus, and coma?
200
Pluto is a dwarf planet because of this.
What is doesn't have a clear path of orbit?
200
Constellations were often named after this.
What are characters from mythology?
200
A meteoroid changes to a meteor when this happens.
What is enters the Earth's atmosphere and burns creating a streak of light in the sky?
300
Most asteroids are in orbit in this area in space.
What is the asteroid belt?
300
Comets have this type of orbit.
What is an elliptical orbit?
300
Planets have these three characteristics.
What is orbit the sun, holds a spherical shape, and has a clear path of orbit?
300
These scientists divided the constellations into 88 official constellations.
Who are astronomers?
400
Many asteroids are rich in this material.
What are minerals?
400
The comet takes on a different appearance when it passes close to this object.
What is the sun?
400
Ceres can be found in this area in space.
What is the asteroid belt?
400
The constellations we change over the year because of this.
What is the orbit of the Earth around the sun?
400
This is the definition of a meteorite.
What is the part of the meteor that doesn't burn and falls to Earth?
500
This is when asteroids were formed.
What is 5 billion years ago with the planets?
500
Comets are also known as this.
What is a dirty snowball?
500
Pluto is cold and dark for this reason.
What is being far away from the sun?
500
Why does it appear that stars move across the night sky?
What is the rotation of the Earth?
500
The swarm of meteors in the sky are called this.
What is a meteor shower?