Informative Writing Asteroid Vocabulary

a rocky object in outer space

• asteroid

• metor

• orbit

• velocity

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

air that surrounds a planet

• atmosphere

• metor

• orbit

• velocity

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

one object hitting or crashing into another

• collision

• diameter

• deflect

• orbit

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NGSS.MS-PS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

the distance across an object

• diameter

• deflect

• impact

• velocity

to cause an object to change direction after hitting something

• deflect

• orbit

• velocity

• impact

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NGSS.MS-PS2-1

the force of one thing hitting another

• impact

• meteor

• orbit

• velocity

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NGSS.MS-PS2-1

a small object from space that enters the Earth's atmosphere. They often appear as glowing streaks in the sky or "shooting stars"

• meteor

• asteroid

• deflect

• velocity

circling another object, like the moon around the Earth

• orbit

• velocity

• meteor

• deflect

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

speed

• velocity

• orbit

• deflect

• diameter

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

What is the mission called that NASA conducted that we are studying

• DART

• DSTA

• NIPTA

• METEOR

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2