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A small rocky body that revolves around the sun
Asteroids
asteroids that have broken off of the belt and fly through space
meteors
A hole that has formed on the surface of a planet from a fallen meteorite
crater
The region between Mars and Jupiter where most asteroids are found is called______.
Asteriod belt
These are meteors that have fallen to earth.
Meteorites
It is made of dust and ice and revolves around the sun.
comets
Alsdo known as a shooting star...
meteors
Comets are made of _____ and ______?
dust and ice
What causes a meteor to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere?
It heats up and disintegrates due to friction from the air.
Why can we see different parts of the sky at different times of the year?
Due to the revolution of Earth around the sun.
It is a group of visible stars that form a pattern when viewed from Earth.
Constellation
_______ are huge spheres of very hot, glowing gas.
stars
What do we call it when things appear to move across the night sky?
apparent motion
This guy gets most of the credit for proposing that the Sun was the center of the universe.
Copernicus
These two discovered how the planets move around the Sun.
Brahe and Kepler
What do you call a body that orbits a planet?
satellite
