solar system debris

What is this?

• Asteroid

• Comet

• Meteor

• Meteorite

Which is bigger?

• Comet

• Meteor

Kuiper Belt Objects (or KBO's) are mostly icy bodies that exist

• near the asteroid belt.

• closer to the Sun than you would think.

• around the orbits of Uranus & Neptune.

• within Pluto's orbit & beyond.

A ___ forms around the nucleus when a comet is close enough to the Sun.

• coma

• halo

• tail

• debris field

Very small particles from a comet's tail periodically hit Earth. This is called a

• meteor shower.

• alien intervention.

• asteroid shower.

• meteoroid bombardment.

Meteorites are small pieces of asteroids or meteoroids that

• travel through space.

• burn up as the enter Earth's atmosphere.

• survive atmospheric entry and hit Earth's surface.

• are small pieces of comets.

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

What a comet is made of?

• Dust, Rock, and Metal

• Icy Shell

• Icy Shell, Dust, Rock, and Metal

• Icy Shell, Dust, Rock, Metal, and Liquid

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Most asteroids orbit the sun in the _________.

• asteroid belt
• Milky Way
• Kuiper belt
• Oort Cloud