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An exploding meteor.
What is a bolide?
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How often Halley's comet appears.
What is every 75 - 76 years?
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The minor planet that approaches very close to the sun.
What is Icarus?
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A shooting star.
What is a meteor?
100
Another name for minor planets.
What is asteroids?
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These occur when the orbits of Earth and a former comet intersect.
What is a meteor shower or shower meteor?
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The material that makes up most of a type I comet tail.
What is gas?
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The minor planets in the same family have similar _____.
What is orbits?
200
Shower meteors are the remnants of...
What is broken-up comets?
200
A depression in the ground caused by a meteorite.
What is a crater?
300
Meteorites that can be etched and polished to show Widmanstatten lines.
What are irons?
300
The three things that make up the nucleus of a comet.
What is rocks, dust, and ices?
300
According to your book, the largest minor planet.
What is Ceres?
300
The location of meteorites.
What is on earth?
300
How minor planets appear in photographs taken through a telescope.
What is as streaks?
400
Meteors that appear to come from random directions.
What is sporadic meteors?
400
The reason comets are visible.
What is because they reflect light?
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The brightest of the minor planets.
What is Vesta?
400
A small, rocky object orbiting the sun in space.
What is a meteoroid?
400
Comets that keep returning over a period of time are...
What is periodic?
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The most abundant class of meteorites.
What is stones?
500
The location of most of a comet's material.
What is in the nucleus?
500
The location of most of the minor planets.
What is between the orbits of Mars & Jupiter?
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A shooting star that survives its fall through the atmosphere.
What is a meteorite?
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The family of asteroids that has nearly the same orbit as Jupiter.
What is Trojan asteroids?