Meteors, Meteorites, & Meteoroids
This is the result of a meteoroid burning up in Earth's atmosphere, also known as a shooting star.
What is a meteor?
This is the region where the asteroid belt is located
What is between Mars and Jupiter?
This is another name for comets
What is a dirty snowball?
This is a space object, usually a rock that falls through Earth's atmosphere but doesn't completely burn up and hits Earth's surface.
What is a meteorite?
True or False: The asteroid belt looks a lot like the orbit of a planet.
This is what comets are made of.
This is a small piece of space rock or dust floating in space.
What is a meteoroid?
This is what asteroids are made of.
What is iron, carbon, and rock?
This is the first NASA spacecraft designed specifically to study comets.
What is Stardust?
This is the weight of the largest meteorite found to date.
What is 60 tons?
These are the outer planets.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
These are the 4 main parts of a comet.
What is coma, nucleus, ion tail, and dust tail?
This is the continent where more than 10,000 meteorites have been found.
What is Antarctica?
These are the inner planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
The coma of a comet always points away from this.
What is the sun?