Asteroids, Comets and Meteors Oh My!

They are sometimes called shooting stars

• interplanetary dust
• asteroids
• comets
• meteors

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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

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

When a meteor hits Earth, what is it called?

• meteorite
• meteroid
• meteor

Are meteors bigger than asteroids?

• Yes
• No
• Mabye
• Sometimes

One similarity between asteroids, comets and meteoroids is that they all:

• are made of rock
• come from the Asteroid Belt
• come from the Oort Cloud
• orbit the sun

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 is a meteor called when it's in space?

• meteroid
• meteor
• meteorite