Comets Meteors and Asteroids Station
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- 3. A region beyond the orbit of Neptune that contains multiple comets and asteroids.
- 7. A meteor that makes it through the atmosphere without completely disintegrating and hits the Earth’s surface.
- 8. Another term that are often used for meteors.
- 9. A disk-shaped region between Mars and Jupiter in which hundreds of thousands of asteroids are located.
- 10. A curved path of a celestial object around something else, such as planets, stars, and moons.
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- 1. A asteroid that is smaller than a few meters that is just floating in space, doing nothing.
- 2. The region in which planets and other celestial objects, such as Mercury, Mars, Earth, Venus, comets, asteroids, meteoroids, etc., orbit around the Sun.
- 4. Small objects that orbit our Sun and are mostly made up of ice and dust. They form a “tail” if they get too close to the Sun.
- 5. Small, irregularly shaped chunks of rock that orbit the Sun and are much too small to be considered planets.
- 6. A meteoroid that enters the Earth’s atmosphere.