2022-23 Chapter 15.6 "Small Solar System Objects"

A region of our solar system between Mars and Jupiter

• Asteroid Belt

• Kuiper Belt

• Oort Cloud

• Comet

• Coma

Beyond Neptune's Orbit around the Sun

• Asteroid Belt

• Kuiper Belt

• Oort Cloud

• Comet

• Coma

Stretches out more than 1,000 times the distance between the Sun and Neptune

• Asteroid Belt

• Kuiper Belt

• Oort Cloud

• Comet

• Coma

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Loose collections of ice, dust, and small rocky particles whose orbits can be very long, narrow ellipses

• Asteroid Belt

• Kuiper Belt

• Oort Cloud

• Comet

• Coma

When an object made up of ice and dust gets closer to the Sun, the energy in the sunlight turn the ice into gas, forming a fuzzy outer layer called a ________________.

• Asteroid Belt

• Kuiper Belt

• Oort Cloud

• Comet

• Coma

The solid inner core of a comet

• Nucleus

• Asteroid

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

Hundreds of small, irregular, rocky objects that orbit the Sun

• Nucleus

• Asteroid

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Smaller chunks of rock or dust, generally less than 10 meters across

• Nucleus

• Asteroid

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

When this object enters Earth's atmosphere, friction with the air creates heat and produces a streak of light

• Nucleus

• Asteroid

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Objects that pass through Earth's atmosphere and are found on Earth's surface

• Nucleus

• Asteroid

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite