Minor Bodies Tuesday

Name the two tails that comets have

• Dust and Ion

• Front and Back

• High tail and Low tail

• Comets don't have tails

Where are most asteroids found?

• Kuiper Belt

• Oort Cloud

• Earth's atmosphere

• Asteroid Belt

What can knock an asteroid out of the asteroid belt?

• Nothing

• Gravity from Jupiter

• Bruce Willis

• The Sun

What kind of asteroids pose a threat to the Earth?

• None

• All of them

• Near Earth Asteroids

What are meteors called when they are hurtling through space?

• Asteroids

• Comets

• Meteors

• Meteoroids

Chicxulub crater on the Yucatan Peninsula is the remains of an impact thought to have contributed to what event?

• Extinction of the Dinosaurs

• None

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind

• Destruction of the Earth

Where is Ceres located?

• Near Modesto

• Asteroid Belt

• Kuiper Belt

• Oort Cloud

What is unique about Haumea?

• Nothing

• It's size

• It's shape

• It's orbit

What is a plutoid?

• Object with an orbit past Neptune

• Dwarf Planet with an orbit beyond Neptune

• Someone from Pluto