Objects In Space

A meteorite is DIFFERENT from a comet mainly because it

• has a tail of ice and dust.

• enters the Earth's atmosphere.

• has a nucleus made of snow and rock.

• is found in orbit between Mars and Jupiter.

The image in the picture is

• A comet.

• A meteoroid.

• A star.

• An asteroid.

The bar of light in the picture and debris that produce a streak of light as they burn up in Earth's atmosphere. They are sometimes called shooting stars. These are..

• Interplanetary dust

• Asteroids

• Meteors

• Comets

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

____ Form a belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comets

• Asteroids

• Meteors

• Stars

Which bodies are composed primarily of rock and metal?

• Comets and Stars

• Stars and Meteors

• Comets and Asteroids

• Asteroids, Meteoroids and Meteorites

Comets and Meteoroids are small solar system bodies that orbits the Sun. There is one distinctive feature of a comet that sets it apart from meteoroids. What is it?

• Elliptical orbits around the Sun

• Visible Coma - Fizzy outline and tail

• The naming process for both comets and meteoroids is the same

• Variances in the rock composition in both comets and meteoroids

These celestial bodies are thought to originate from two different sources. Some are called Long-Period and originate from the Oort Cloud. These bodies orbit the sun but may take as long as 200 years to complete one orbit. Others are called Short-Period and originate from the Kuiper Belt in Our Solar System.

What is this celestial body called?

• Asteroid

• Comet

• Meteor

• Planet

The image in the picture is a comet. What characteristic best identifies it as a comet?

• Comets are streaks of light.

• Comets are larger than asteroids

• Comets enter the Earth's atmosphere

• Comets develop a fuzzy, cloud-like shell called a coma,as well as a tail

Most of us have probably seen meteors or shooting stars. A meteor is the flash of light that we see in the night sky when a small chunk of interplanetary debris burns up as it passes through our atmosphere. "Meteor" refers to the flash of light caused by the debris, not the debris itself.

What do we call the debris just before it enters the Earth's atmosphere?

• Asteroid

• Comet

• Meteorite

• Meteoroid

A small body starts its life as a _______ floating through space between the planets until it makes a bright streak of light in Earth’s atmosphere as a _______ and then, if it isn’t consumed by frictional heating, finally lands on the ground as a ________.

Fill in the blanks to correctly identify the relationship between meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids.

• meteor; meteoroid; meteorite

• meteoroid; meteor; meteorite

• meteorite; meteoroid; meteor

• meteoroid; meteorite; meteor