Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids
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What is a meteor?
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A chunk of rock that enters Earth's atmosphere and produces a streak of light in the sky.
2.
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What is a meteorite?
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A chunk of rock that is not burned up by the atmosphere and hits Earth's surface.
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What is a comet?
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Chunks of ice and dust whose orbits are usually a long, narrow ellipse.
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What is the Kuiper Belt?
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A doughnut-shaped region of comets that extends from beyond Neptune's orbit to about 100 times Earth's distance from the sun.
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What is a coma in relation to a comet?
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Gas and dust form a fuzzy outer layer around a comet's head, called a coma.
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What is a meteoroid?
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A small rocky or metallic body in outer space, smaller than an asteroid.
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What is the difference between a meteor and a meteoroid?
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A meteoroid is a small rock or particle in space, while a meteor is the streak of light produced when a meteoroid burns up in Earth's atmosphere.
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