Comets, Asteroids, Meteors IMS

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor
• meteorite
• asteroid
• comet

The belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comets
• Asteroids
• Meteors
• Stars

They are sometimes called shooting stars

• interplanetary dust
• asteroids
• comets
• meteors

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

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.

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

We are composed mainly of rock and metal.

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

__________________ are small rocky objects that orbit the sun mostly between Mars and Jupiter

• Asteroid
• meteoroid
• meteor
• meteorite

______________ is a meteoroid that reaches Earth's surface without burning up completely

• asteroid
• meteoroid
• meteor
• meteorite

Comets have very ______________ orbits.  Their orbits take them close to the sun and well beyond Pluto.

• elongated (elliptical)
• circular
• triangular
• scientists do not know