6.8a: Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2

What is a Comet?

• a rock that orbits the sun

• a glowing group of dust particles

• a ball of ice and dust that orbits the sun

• a ball of fire that orbits the sun

What is #5 in the picture?

• Venus

• Sun

• Asteroid Belt

• Saturn

What is a chunk of rock, metal, or dust in space?

• Meteor

• Comet

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

The belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comets

• Asteroid

• Meteors

• Stars

They are sometimes called shooting stars

• interplanetary dust
• asteroids
• comets
• meteors

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

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 atmosphere and hits the ground

• has a nucleus mad of rock and snow.

Sometimes I am called a "dirty snowball". I have a blue ion tail, a dust tail, a 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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Burns and vaporizes as it nears the sun.

• asteroid
• meteoroid
• comet
• meteorite

what is the comets tail made out of?

• gases

• dust

• all of the above

• ice