Asteroids, comets, meteors

The belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comets
• Asteroids
• Meteors
• Stars

They are sometimes called shooting stars

• interplanetary dust
• asteroids
• comets
• meteors

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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?

• 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 a small rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor
• meteorite
• asteroid
• comet

When a meteor hits Earth, what is it called?

• meteorite
• meteroid
• meteor

Are meteors bigger than asteroids?

• Yes
• No
• Mabye
• Sometimes

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

• Asteroids
• Comets
• Meteroids
• Meteors

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

• Comets
• Meteors
• Asteroids
• Meteroids

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

• meteroid
• meteor
• meteorite