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True/False: An Asteroid is a smaller, rocky object that goes around the Sun

True

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star

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True/False: “Planetoid or Minor Planets” are another way to say “asteroid”.

True

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True/False: “Orbit” means to spin.

False-It means to go around something in a regular pattern.

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True/False: We study space rocks, like Asteroids, because they are the building blocks of planets & moons, and because they can tell us about the origins of the Solar System.

True

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True/False: When we see a Meteor in the night’s sky, we often call them “Falling Rocks”.

False: They are called “Falling Stars” or “Shooting Stars”

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True/False: there are only about 100 asteroids in the Asteroid Belt.

False-There are millions of smaller asteroids and 4 large ones

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True/False: Scientists believe asteroids brought water to Earth.

True

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True/False- Meteorites are smaller than asteroids & comets & seem to fall through space as they orbit the Sun.

False-this describes Meteoroids

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True/False: A Meteorite is a space rock that hits the Earth’s surface.

True

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True/False: A comet is a hot rock that orbits the sun.

-False: It is an icy snowball that orbits the sun.

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True/False: A comet can only have one tail.

False: a comet can have a dust tail & an ion tail

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shark

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shark

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True/False: A comet can be as small as a city but as big as a planet.

True

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True/False: The dust tail forms as the comet gets closer to the Sun & solar radiation pressure blows dust particles behind the comet.

True

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