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- 2. a belt located outside the solay system where asteroids can also be found
- 4. the large majority of comet
- 9. occurs when earth passes through an unusually dense debris cloud from a comet
- 11. what is a shooting star
- 13. considered the "king of meteor shower
- 14. a long-period comet
- 17. consists of 3 gaseous planets-jupiter,saturn,uranus
- 21. a meteor shower is named after a
- 22. asteroids that cross but spend most of their time outside earths orbit
- 25. cross and spend most of their time in earths orbit
- 28. rocky celestial bodies that vary in brightness
- 29. is between the inner and outer solar system
- 31. complete their orbit in 200 yrs or less
- 34. located near jupiter's orbit
- 35. meteor showers coming from the debris of the asteroid 2003EH1\
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- 1. a celestial event in witch several meteors enter earths atmosphere at great speeds on parallel trajectories
- 3. referred to as 'dirty snowball'
- 5. a potentially hazardous huge asteroid
- 6. includes 4 terrestrial planet murcury,venus,earth,mars
- 7. asteroids that approach but do not cross earth's orbit
- 8. a large bright cloud of dust and gas
- 10. the most popular and famous short-period comet
- 12. complete their orbits in more than 200yrs
- 15. forms as gases and plasma escape from the nucleus
- 16. a non-periodic comet that is visible in the night sky
- 18. orbits around the sun, not as a perfect circle
- 19. tail a long visible glowing tail that forms when the comet is near the sun
- 20. the orbits are not confined to the plane of the solar system
- 23. happens every 75 to 76 yrs
- 24. comes from the debris of an asteriod named 3200 phaeton
- 26. an annual meteor shower that occurs as the earth passes through debris left by comet swift tuttle
- 27. another term of calling an asteroid
- 30. amount of light reflected by a planet or any celestial object
- 32. small chucks of outer space debris that are attracted by earths gravity
- 33. our home galaxy