Comets, Asteroids, Meteors

What is a meteor often called?

• Shooting Star

• Flying Rock

• Big flying thingy

What is an asteroid?

• A giant snowball in space

• A mini star

• A large rock orbiting the Sun

What are comets?

• Shooting stars

• Large balls of ice mixed with rocks and dust

• The smallest dwarf planets

Which one of these have a tail?

• Comet

• Asteroid

• Meteor

What is a meteor?

• Piece of rock in the atmosphere

• Pieces of rock in space

• Pieces of rock and Ice

Where is the asteroid belt located?

• Around Earth

• Between Earth and Mars

• Between Mars and Jupiter

I am a small rocky object in space. Size may range from dust-sized to 1km

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

a rock in Earth’s upper atmosphere igniting due to friction in air.

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

The rock that makes it to the Earth’s surface after surviving through the Earth’s atmosphere

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

Tell how a comets orbits.

• free float in space

• goes around the sun in a circular orbit

• goes around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4