Where is the Oort cloud located?

People sometimes talk about seeing shooting stars. What do they actually see?

Where do most all small celestial bodies originate in our solar system?

This part of a comet blows away from it based on the solar wind direction.

When an object enters the atmosphere and burns up creating light.

What makes up the small bodies of our solar system?

An object enters the atmosphere and makes it to the ground.

There are two regions in the Solar System where comets might come from, the __________________________ belt and the _______________________________ cloud.

A sand-to-boulder-size, rocky body that travel through space is called a/an

Most ____________________ are located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

A spherical region that surrounds the Solar System that extends from the Kuiper Belt to almost halfway to the nearest star and that contains billions of comets is called a/an

In 2006, astronomers decided that _________________ would no longer be considered a planet.

A ________________ is a small body of ice, rock, and dust that follows a highly elliptical (oval) orbit around the sun.

The region between Mars and Jupiter that is 300 million Km wide is known as the

A comet travels (faster/slower) as it moves closer to the sun.

Between the orbits of which two planets is the asteroid belt located?

What is the object shown here composed of rock, dust, ice, and other frozen substances?