Comets, Meteors

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

Which is found in the belt between Mars and Jupiter

• Comets

• Asteroids

• Meteors

• Stars

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor

• moon

• asteroid

• comet

Which object in space is larger?

• Asteroid

• Meteoroid

A meteor when it burns in the atmosphere is also known as a ____.

• rock

• shooting star

• ball of ice

Where are Asteroids found in the Solar System?

• Between Earth and Mars
• In the Oort Cloud beyond Neptune
• In the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter
• Close to the Sun

Meteorites...

•  hit the ground
• burn up completely in the atmosphere
• debris from asteroids/comets that float around in space

After orbiting the sun frequently Comets break into:

• meteors

• meteoroids

• meteorites

A meteoroid is found

• in Space

• entering earths atmosphere

• impacting earths surface

A rocky object that revolves around the sun, but is too small to be considered a planet.

• Meteor

• Comet

• Asteroid