Comets, Meteors, Asteroids, Meteorites

The belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comets
• Asteroids
• Meteors
• Stars

They are sometimes called shooting stars

• interplanetary dust
• asteroids
• comets
• meteors

Select the pair of bodies which are LEAST alike in composition and size

• asteroid and meteor
• moon and comet
• earth and venus
• uranus and neptune

A meteorite is DIFFERENT from a comet mainly because

• has a tail of ice and gas
• is found in orbit between Jupiter and Mars
• enters the Earth's atmoshere
• has a nucleus mad of rock and snow.

Which of the following bodies are MOST alike in composition and size?

• Earth and Venus
• Uranus and Neptune
• asteroid and comet
• meteor and asteroid

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?

• Asteroid
• Star
• Meteor
• Comet

The tail of a comet usually faces

• toward the sun
• toward the Earth
• away from the Sun
• away from the Earth

I am several miles in diameter, originate beyond the outer plants, thought to have struck early Earth, consists of bodies of ice, stone and organic compounds 

• comet
• asteroid
• meteor
• star dust

We are composed mainly of rock and metal.

• comets and stars
• stars and meteors
• asteroid and meteors
• comets and asteroid

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor
• meteorite
• asteroid
• comet