Celestial Objects

About how many million miles thick is the asteroid belt?

• 106

• 92

• 75

• 27

What is the area of our Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune, believed to contain many comets, asteroids, and other small celestial bodies including dwarf planets made mostly of ice called?

• Asteroid Belt

• Milky Way Galaxy

• Kuiper Belt

• Pluto's Belt

What is the area beyond the Kuiper Belt, in which you can find icy, comet-like bodies called?

• Asteroid Belt

• Milky Way

• Darkness

• Oort Cloud

Which celestial object is a small rocky or metallic outer space that is much smaller than an asteroid ranging in size from small grains to one-meter-wide.

• Comet

• Meteor

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

Which celestial objects are chunks of rock that burn up as they enter a planet’s atmosphere?

• Asteroid

• Comet

• Meteor

• Meteoroid

Which celestial object would a shooting star be classified as?

• Comet

• Meteor

• Asteroid

• Meteorite

What does a meteor become after it strikes the surface of a planet or moon?

• Meteoroid

• Meteorite

• Meteorade

• Meteoride

As the distance between 2 objects increases, what happens to gravitational force?

• increases

• decreases

• stays the same

• i don't know

Objects made of ice, gas and dust and orbit our sun are called:

• Asteroids

• Comets

• moon

• Meteors

The luminous celestial body (a bright space object) around which Earth and other planets revolve and from which they receive heat and light.

• satellite

• planet

• sun

• galaxy

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