Meteoroid Crossword Puzzle
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- 6. Meteors occur when meteoroids brightly burn in the atmosphere
- 8. Meteors burn due to the extreme __________ they create when colliding with Earth's atmosphere at high speed
- 10. This is what most meteoroids are made of, it's a mix of oxygen and silicon
- 12. Meteoroids are made of metals like ________ or Ni
- 14. Dust-sized materials are called ______ _______
- 16. This is the flash of light that occurs when a meteoroid burns in the atmosphere
- 17. Sand-sized meteoroids are called ________ they can impact spacecraft
- 18. Meteoroids a basically space ________
- 20. Meteoroids are made of metals like ________ or Fe
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- 1. This is any meteor that doesn't completely burn up so it hits the surface of Earth
- 2. These are out in space and have a tail caused by dust and ionized gases
- 3. When several observable meteoroids hit Earth's atmoshpere and burn it's called a meteor ______
- 4. A small, rocky or metallic object in space that ranges in size from pebbles to tiny asteroids
- 5. this was one of the most extravagant meteor showers is history: The _______ meteor shower of 1833
- 7. Meteoroids out in space are usually less than _______ feet wide and have an irregular shape
- 9. This is the largest intact meteorite found in the U.S.
- 11. _________ of tiny ones hit the Earth's atmosphere each and every day
- 13. There are ____________ of known impact craters on Earth
- 15. There are ______________ of observable impact craters on the Moon
- 19. Meteoroids accelerate towards Earth due to Earth's ____________