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Comets, Asteroids and Meteoroids

This document discusses comets, asteroids, and meteoroids. It provides facts about each: Comets are loose collections of ice, dust and rocky particles that orbit the sun in long, elliptical orbits. They have two tails - a gas tail and a dust tail. Most comets originate from the Kuiper Belt or Oort Cloud. Asteroids are small rocky objects located primarily in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They range in size and are composed of metals and silicates. Meteoroids are chunks of rock or dust in space. When they enter the atmosphere, they heat up and glow, creating meteors, or "shooting stars." If they survive entry and hit

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Comets, Asteroids and Meteoroids

This document discusses comets, asteroids, and meteoroids. It provides facts about each: Comets are loose collections of ice, dust and rocky particles that orbit the sun in long, elliptical orbits. They have two tails - a gas tail and a dust tail. Most comets originate from the Kuiper Belt or Oort Cloud. Asteroids are small rocky objects located primarily in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They range in size and are composed of metals and silicates. Meteoroids are chunks of rock or dust in space. When they enter the atmosphere, they heat up and glow, creating meteors, or "shooting stars." If they survive entry and hit

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C OM E T S , A S T E R OI D S

AND MET E O R O ID S
MISS RONA
FACT OR BLUFF?
1. COMET IS A SMALL
PLANET?

FACT OR BLUFF?
1. COMET IS A SMALL
PLANET?

BLUFF
2. METEOR IS ALSO KNOWN
AS SHOOTING STAR?

FACT OR BLUFF?
2. METEOR IS ALSO KNOWN
AS SHOOTING STAR?

FACT
3. ASTEROIDS ARE FOUND
BETWEEN JUPITER AND
MARS.
FACT OR BLUFF?
3. ASTEROIDS ARE FOUND
BETWEEN JUPITER AND
MARS.
FACT
4. ASTEROIDS ARE
REMNANTS OF PLANETS.

FACT OR BLUFF?
4. ASTEROIDS ARE
REMNANTS OF PLANETS.

FACT
5. ASTEROIDS ORBIT THE
SUN.

FACT OR BLUFF?
5. ASTEROIDS ORBIT THE
SUN.

FACT
COMET
COMETS: “DIRTY SNOWBALLS”
 Comets are loose collections of ice,
dust, and small rocky particles
whose orbits are usually very long,
narrow ellipses.
• A Comet’s Head
 Outer layer= Coma (water vapor, CO2, and
other gases)
 Solid inner core= Nucleus (frozen ice, gas
and dust )
COMET’S TAIL
As a comet approaches the sun and heats up, some of
its gas and dust stream outward, forming a tail.
Most comets have 2 tails:
gas (ion), tail
dust tail
Tails point away from the sun because of the force of
the solar wind.
A comet’s tail can be more than 100 million kilometers
long.
LOCATION
Most comets are found in 2 regions of the solar
system: Kuiper belt and Oort cloud.
Kuiper belt-doughnut-shaped region that
extends beyond Pluto’s orbit to about 100 times
Earth’s distance from the sun.
Oort cloud-spherical region of comets that
surrounds the solar system out to more than
1,000 times the distance between Pluto and the
sun.
ASTEROIDS
ASTEROIDS
 A small and rocky space object.
 Most asteroids are found in the asteroid
belt.
 The asteroid belt is located between the
orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
FACTS ABOUT ASTEROIDS
Asteroids are made of metals, silicate,
iron, nickel, and carbon.
The first one discovered (and the
biggest) is named Ceres; it was
discovered in 1801.
Asteroids range in size from tiny
pebbles to about 578 miles (930
kilometers) in diameter (Ceres).
METEOROIDS
METEOROIDS
 A chunk of rock or dust in
space.
 Meteoroids come from
comets or asteroids.
METEORS
When a meteoroid enters Earth’s
atmosphere, friction with the air
creates heat and produces a
streak of light that you can see in
the sky.
A meteor is a meteoroid that
enters Earth’s atmosphere and
burns up.
METEORITES
 Meteoroids that pass through the
atmosphere and hit Earth’s surface are
called meteorites.
 Classified by composition: stony, iron ,or
stony-iron.
LET’S DO THE
LEARNING TASKS.

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