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small planetary bodies

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comets, asteroids and meteoroids

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small ban of ice, rock and dust that flies through space

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Comets

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Long haired

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kometes

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named dirty snowballs because

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because of their composition

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originate from the cold outer solar system, basically the left over pieces of our solar system

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comets

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T or F

When a comet gets close to the sun, the heat melts some of the ice in the comet and forms a long tail

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T

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made out of the nucleus, coma, dust tail and ion tail

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Comet

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made of electrically charge particles that are blown directly away from the sun by the solar wind

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ion tail

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T or F

nucleus is present even when the comet is not near the sun

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T

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T or F

As the comet goes near the sun, its tail becomes shorter and its coma becomes duller

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F- longer; brighter

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All comets orbits are _______ or stretched narrow circles

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ellipses

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T or F

Comets sometimes cross the orbits of several planets on their trip around their sun

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T

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A comet’s tail always points _______ from the sun - because the _________ is blowing it away

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away; solar wind

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categorized by length of 1 orbit around the sun

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comet

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usually take over 200 years to orbit the sun

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long-period comets

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usually make it around in less than 200

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short-period comets

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orbits the sun once every 76 years (short period comet)

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Halley’s comet

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period of 75,000 years (long period comet)

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Comet Kohoutek

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huge spherical region that surrounds the entire solar system

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Oort cloud

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holds millions of small pieces of ice and rock that slowly orbit the sun

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oort cloud

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space debris that orbit around the sun made of rock and metal

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asteroids

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star-like

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asteroids

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range in size from a few meters to not more than 900 km in diameter- too small to be a planet

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asteroid

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T or F

Most asteroids are located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter

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T

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T or F | Some asteroids that orbit planets are considered moons
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broad zone between Mars and Jupiter where most asteroids are located
Asteroid belt
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areas almost free of asteroids
kirkwood gaps
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T or F Like other small bodies in the solar system, they are remnants of rocky planetesimals that were prevented by jupiter's gravity from forming into a planet at that locatiom
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irregular shapes although some of the larger ones are spherical
Asteroids
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made up mostly of carbon
Chondrite
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made up of silicate
Stony
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made up of iron and nickel
Metallic
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asteroids which have orbits that reside entirely between earth and mars
Amor
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Asteroids whose orbits cross earth's orbit and spend most of their time outside earth's orbit
Apollo
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Asteroids whose orbits also cross Earth's orbit but unlike apollos they spend most of their time inside earth orbit
Atens
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captured by a planetary orbit
Trojan
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T or F | Asteroids orbits are elliptical
T
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T or F | Asteroids are found in the inner part of the solar system near terrestrial planets
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a small rocky object that orbits around the sun
meteoroid
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similar to asteroid but are much smaller
meteoroids
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T or F | most meteoroids are probably chunks of asteroid or comets that have broken off
T
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a solid body made of ice rock and dust and frozen gases | as they fracture and disintegrate these leave a trail of solid debris
comets
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small rocky iron or icy debris falling in space
asteroid
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small asteroid
meteoroid
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an annual event when earth passes through a region having great concentration of debris such as particles left by a comet. from earth it looks like meteors radiate from the same point in the night sky
meteor shower
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light emitted from a meteoroid or an asteroid as it enters the atmosphere
meteor
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meteor brighter than the planet venus
fireball
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light emitted by a large meteoroid or an asteroid as it explodes in the atmosphere
bolide
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fragment of a meteoroid or an asteroid that survives passage through the atmosphere and hits the ground
meteorite
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meteoroid that travels through the atmosphere
meteor
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travels through the atmosphere it heats up to more than 2000 C
meteor
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the intense heat vaporizes the meteor creating a streak of light called a _________
shooting star
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brief glow behind the meteor head
wake
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persistent metallic atom (Na, Fe, Mg) emission glow in the path of bright fireballs. it lasts a few seconds
Afterglow
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as earth orbits the sun, it passes through the debris causing a __________ as the small bits of dust burn up in the atmosphere
meteor shower
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named through constellations near them
meteor shower
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when a comet comes near the sun , a trail of dust and debris burns off and remains in orbit around the sun
meteor showers
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T or F | we can predict meteor showers because we know when the earth passes through a comet's path
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a meteor is big enough to make it through the atmosphere and strikes the earth's surface is called _________
meteorite
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fragments from collisions involving asteroids
meteorite
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cause little damage
most meteorites
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in space (outside the earth) small space rock that orbits the sun made of rocks and metals
Meteoroid
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on the earth's atmosphere streak of light (shooting star) light forms because of heat (friction)
Meteor
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on the surface of the earth/ground small rock from space made of metals and rocks
Meteorite
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found in the oort cloud or kuiper belt
comets
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found in the asteroid belt
asteroids
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tails are shaped by sunlight
comets
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irregularly shaped
asteroids
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nucleus solid inside, coma, ion tail, dust tail
comets
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Atens: inside earth's orbit Amor: between mars and earth Apollo: outside earth's orbit Trojan: captured by planet/ moon
asteroid
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short period: less than 200 years to orbit the sun | long period: more than 200 years
comets
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C-asteroid: carbon S-asteroid: silicate M-asteroid: mainly Fe and Ni
Asteroid
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ice, dust and gas (nucleus: rocks, metals)
comets
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rocks and metals
asteroids
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collision with the earth
comet
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collision with the earth
asteroid

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