Comet Asteroid Meteor

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

One similarity between asteroids, comets and meteoroids is that they all:

• are made of rock

• come from the Asteroid Belt

• come from the Oort Cloud

• orbit the sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

• Asteroid
• Comet
• Meteor

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

• Comet
• Asteroid
• Meteor

A chunk of rock or dust in space that comes from an asteroid or comet.

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

• Comet

This was something that left behind a crater off the coast of Mexico that is 93 miles wide and 12 miles deep. It brought about the end of the dinosaurs and almost three-quarters of the plant and animal species then living on Earth.

• Halley's Comet

• Meteor Crater

• Apophis

• The Chicxulub Impactor

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

A small piece of rock that enters Earth's atmosphere and produces a streak of light in the sky as it burns up.

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

• Comet

A near-Earth object with a relatively large size (it is about 1,100 feet). It is about the size of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. It is named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos.

• Halley's Comet

• Meteor Crater

• Apophis

• The Chicxulub Impactor

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Check all the following statements that are TRUE

• Asteroids are made of rock and metal

• Comets are made of ice, rock, and dust

• Comets can be found in the Oort Cloud

• All the above

This small rocky body that reaches Earth's surface without burning up is called a ____.

• Meteoroid

• Meteor

• Meteorite

• Asteroid