Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors.

This is a frozen mass of different types of ice and dust orbiting the sun.

• asteroid

• comet

• moon

• star

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

You could name this if you were the first to see it.

• comet

• asteroid

• moon

• star

A comet's core or nucleus has an _______________ shape.

• symmetrical

• circular

• spherical

• uneven

Passes by the Sun approximately every 76 years.

• Ion's Comet

• Edmund's Comet

• Halley's Comet

• You're Comet

This gives a comet its bright, fuzzy appearance.

• tails

• coma

• core

• nucleus

This tail consists of various glowing charged gases and are narrow and bluish.

• ion

• dust

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-3

This tail is made of fine dust particles escaping as the ice melts and is wide and yellowish.

• ion

• dust

This is a rocky mass up to several hundred kilometers wide and revolves around the sun.

• comet

• asteroid

• moon

• star

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Most asteroids have a complete revolution every __________ years.

• 2-3

• 3-5

• 3-6

• 2-6

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

This planet's gravity holds most asteroids in the area beyond Mars.

• Mars

• Uranus

• Venus

• Jupiter

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2