Other Space Objects

The belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comets

• Asteroid

• Meteors

• Stars

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

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor
• meteorite
• asteroid
• comet

When a meteor hits Earth, what is it called?

• meteorite
• meteroid
• meteor

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

• Asteroids
• Comets
• Meteroids
• Meteors

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

• The Kupier Belt
• The Oort Cloud
• The Planetary Rings
• The Asteroid Belt

When objects strike the surface of a planet or moon, they leave a deep impression on the surface called a:

• Pothole 
• Crater
• Canyon
• Plateau

What do comets orbit

• The Stars
• The Planets
• The Sun

What is a meteor called when it's in space?

• meteroid
• meteor
• meteorite

What causes meteors to burn up in our atmosphere?

• 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