Space Junk

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A meteorite is DIFFERENT from a comet mainly because

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enters the Earth's atmosphere

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Sometimes I am called a "dirty snowball". I have a hydrogen cloud, coma, and a nucleus. I am invisible except when near the sun. What am I?

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Comet

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We are composed mainly of rock and metal. Options: comets and stars, stars and meteors, asteroid and meteors, comets and asteroid

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asteroid and meteors

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I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

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meteor

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What do comets orbit?

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The Sun

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When a meteor hits Earth, what is it called?

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meteorite

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Huge chunks of rock and metal (some measuring miles wide) and are believed to be left-over pieces of planets and moons are called:

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Asteroids

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Asteroids "hang out" in our solar system in a place called:

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The Asteroid Belt

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^{Objects made of ice, gas and dust and orbit our sun are called:}

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Comets

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What causes meteors to burn up in our atmosphere? Options: Heat from the Sun, Heat from Earth's atmosphere, They are already so hot that our atmosphere can't handle it, Friction from the Earth's atmosphere

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Friction from the Earth's atmosphere