Name of the most famous comet that passes the Earth every 76 years and the last time it passed by Earth was in 1986. In what year will it pass our solar system again?
Comet Haley, 2062
asteroids that have broken off of the belt and fly through space.
meteoroid
What do you think happened to the plants and animals living in the area where the comet or asteroid crashed?
Destroyed
Small rocky body that revolves around the sun?
Asteroids
What happens when a fragment from an asteroid enters Earth’s atmosphere?
Asteroid fragments become meteoroid then meteor.
Give the composition of a comet
Dust, Rock, and Ices
Also known as the shooting star.
meteors
It is a bowl-shaped depression, or hollowed-out area, produced by the impact of a meteorite, volcanic activity, or an explosion.
Crater
3 main parts of a comet
coma, tail and core (nucleus)
where do most comets originate?
Oort cloud
A large number of small meteoroids entering Earth’s atmosphere in a short period of time
meteor shower
What are the three broad composition classes of asteroids?
C-type (chondrite), S-types ("stony"), M-types are metallic (nickel-iron)
space rocks that fall to Earth's surface
meteorite
The central part of the comet made up of frozen gases, ice and dust
Core (nucleus)
region between Mars and Jupiter where most asteriods are found?
Jupiter and Mars
dusty ball of ice with a tail of light that points away from the sun
Comet
What causes a meteor to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere?
it heats up due to friction from the air
part of a comet that always points away from the sun
tail
comets that take more than 200 years to complete one orbit of the sun
Long-period comets
A region of the solar system just beyond the orbit of Neptune that contains small bodies of mainly ice
Kuiper belt
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