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Grade 8 Science Lesson No.

Distinguishing Asteroids
and Comets
LIMURIEL JAY A. BIDES
TEACHER I
A.L. NAVARRO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Can you
identify STARS
1 SOLAR 2SYSTEM MOON
3

these
celestial
ASTEROIDS
objects?
4
COMETS 5 METEORS &
6
METEORITES

7
GALAXIES
Short Review
Question 1:
What is the Solar System?

Answer:
• Our Sun and the
celestial/planetary/
astronomical objects that
go around it.
Question 2:
What are some members of the Solar System?
Answer:
• Sun
• Planets
• Moons
• Comets
• Meteors
Question 3:
Try to visualize what the Solar System and the Universe
look like. How do members of the Solar System move in
Space?
Answer:
• The planets move/orbit (go around) the Sun
• The moons go around/orbit the planets.
• The Sun goes around/orbits the center of our galaxy
along with our whole Solar System
Lesson Purpose and Intention
Lesson Purpose and Intention

 Differentiate between Asteroids and


Comets and how they form and travel in
space and how they are visible or can
impact on Earth.
Lesson Language Practice
Read the ff. words:
• Asteroids
• Astronomy
• Astronomical
• Orbit
• A million years
• A billion years
• Vaporize
Lesson Activity
Lesson Activity
Lesson Activity
Lesson Activity
Question 1:
What is generally typically bigger – an
Asteroid or a Comet?
Answer:

• An Asteroid – it can be 500 km in diameter


Question 2:
What features do Comets have that Asteroids
do not have?
Answer:
• Gases
• Tails when they are near the Sun.
• Some travel around the Sun in different direction. Asteroids go the same way
as Earth.
• They can take 100,000 years to orbit the Sun; Asteroids only take 1000 years
at the most.
Question 3:
What is more likely to hit Earth, an Asteroids
or a Comet? Why?
Answer:
• An Asteroid- because asteroids are generally closer to Earth – they originate
in the orbits between Mars and Jupiter – about 400 million kilometers away
and they orbit the Sun more quickly, maybe every 100 years. Comets come
from over 5 billion kilometers away and the most don’t come by the Sun very
often – many would only come close to the Sun every 100,000 years.
Question 4:
What type of energy and/or forces are likely
to affect comets as they travel closer to the
Sun?
Answer:
• Light
• Heat
• Gravity
Question 5:
Make some labelled drawings to show the
different shapes that Asteroids and Comets
can have?
Question 5:
Question 6:
If asteroids usually orbit in the Asteroid Belt
between Mars and Jupiter, what could cause an
asteroid to head towards and hit Earth?
Question 6:
Answer:
• it might have collided with another asteroid and that
changed its direction.
• It could move close to a large planet which would change its
path due to the planet’s gravity – gravitational attraction;
• It might have been from a bigger asteroid that collided and
broke into pieces, and it is a piece that is heading to Earth.
Lesson Conclusion
Question 1:

Has the activity helped you think


more about the astronomical
objects of the Solar System?
Question 2:

What did you enjoy about the


lesson?
Question 3:

What is something you would like


to learn more about in this topic?
End.

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