All about Asteroids | Comets | Oort Cloud | Kuiper Belt | Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites |
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What is an asteroid?
What is a big or small piece of rock and broken off stars or planets that have a terrestrial, rocky surface
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What are the main parts of a comet?
What is the nucleus, the dust tail, the ionic tail, and the coma.
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What is the planet(or dwarf planet)that the Oort Cloud is far beyond the orbit of?
What is Pluto
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What is the shape of the Kuiper Belt?
What is a donut shape or oval kind of shape
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What is a meteor?
What is a shooting star or rock that burns up and vaporizes befor moving in Earth's atmosphere
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Where are asteroids usually found in the Milkyway?
What is the Asteroid Belt or Kuiper Belt
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Where do comets usually hang out?
What is the Oort Cloud
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What kind of orbit do the planets do instead of a circular orbit?
What is an elliptical orbit
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What can you learn about the solar system and asteroids if you were to visit the Kuiper Belt?
What is how the early solar system was formed and how asteroids were created.
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What is a meteoroid?
What is a space rock
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What is the largest asteroid that we know of?
What is Ceres (also known as one of the dwarf planets).
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What kind of orbit do the comets have?
What is a circular orbit
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What is the Oort Cloud made up of?
What is ice, gases, and space debris
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Is the Kuiper Belt where asteroids hang out pr where comets hang out?
What is asteroids
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What is a meteorite
A meteorite is a meteoroid or space rock once it hits Earth's surface
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What is the first asteroid to have more than one moon that we know about?
What is the 87 Sylvia
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What are comets made up of?
What is ice, dust, rock, and frozen gases.
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What shape is the Oort Cloud?
What is a sphere or circle
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Where is the Kuiper Belt located?
What is between Mars and Jupitert
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True or false: Meteoroids are very tiny
True
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What do asteroids help us find out about the early Solar system?
What is how it was formed
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What does the tail of the comet do when coming near the sun?
What is point away
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True or False: The Oort Cloud is where asteroids hang out.
False
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Does the Kuiper Belt orbit the Sun and the Planets and how?
What is yes and it orbits around the planets and Sun in an elliptical orbit.
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What are these called when asteroids and/or comets break into smaller pieces?
What is Meteoroids
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