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    The asteroid belt is located between Mars and Jupiter. It formed from leftovers that did not combine to form a planet. Asteroids range in size from small rocks to objects over 900 km wide. The asteroid belt has little influence on Earth. Comets have an icy nucleus, coma of dust and gas, and two tails. The ion tail always points away from the Sun due to solar wind pressure. The dust tail trails behind the comet due to radiation pressure. As comets approach the Sun, their tails grow dramatically larger due to sublimating ice, but fade again as they leave the Sun. Meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere and glow brightly as meteors. Those that survive atmospheric entry

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    The asteroid belt is located between Mars and Jupiter. It formed from leftovers that did not combine to form a planet. Asteroids range in size from small rocks to objects over 900 km wide. The asteroid belt has little influence on Earth. Comets have an icy nucleus, coma of dust and gas, and two tails. The ion tail always points away from the Sun due to solar wind pressure. The dust tail trails behind the comet due to radiation pressure. As comets approach the Sun, their tails grow dramatically larger due to sublimating ice, but fade again as they leave the Sun. Meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere and glow brightly as meteors. Those that survive atmospheric entry

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    The asteroid belt is located between Mars and Jupiter. It formed from leftovers that did not combine to form a planet. Asteroids range in size from small rocks to objects over 900 km wide. The asteroid belt has little influence on Earth. Comets have an icy nucleus, coma of dust and gas, and two tails. The ion tail always points away from the Sun due to solar wind pressure. The dust tail trails behind the comet due to radiation pressure. As comets approach the Sun, their tails grow dramatically larger due to sublimating ice, but fade again as they leave the Sun. Meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere and glow brightly as meteors. Those that survive atmospheric entry

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    The asteroid belt is located between Mars and Jupiter. It formed from leftovers that did not combine to form a planet. Asteroids range in size from small rocks to objects over 900 km wide. The asteroid belt has little influence on Earth. Comets have an icy nucleus, coma of dust and gas, and two tails. The ion tail always points away from the Sun due to solar wind pressure. The dust tail trails behind the comet due to radiation pressure. As comets approach the Sun, their tails grow dramatically larger due to sublimating ice, but fade again as they leave the Sun. Meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere and glow brightly as meteors. Those that survive atmospheric entry

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    The passage discusses comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and other objects in the solar system.

    The nucleus, coma, and tails.

    The ion tail and dust tail.

    Name __________________________ Other Objects in the Solar System

    Mr. Magnuson Astronomy Unit

    Asteroid Belt

     Located between ____________________ and


    ________________________.

     Theory of its existence:

     Object size range:

     Consequence of the Asteroid Belt (on Earth):

    Comets

     What is a comet?

     What are the parts of a comet?

     How does the tail of a comet develop?

     When are comets visible? And why?


    Name __________________________ Other Objects in the Solar System
    Mr. Magnuson Astronomy Unit

    Parts of a Comet

     _________________________________: The nucleus is the frozen center of a


    comet's head. It is composed of ____________, ______________, and ______________.
    The nucleus contains most of the comet's ________________ but is very small.

     _________________________________: The coma is the roughly spherical blob


    of _________________ that surrounds the nucleus of a comet; it is about a million km
    across. The coma is comprised of _________________, carbon dioxide gas, ammonia,
    dust, and neutral gases that have _____________________ from the solid nucleus. The
    coma and the nucleus form the head of a comet.

     ________________________________: A tail of charged gases (ions) always


    faces _________________________ from the sun because the _____________________
    (ions streaming from the sun at high velocities) pushes it away (it is also called the
    plasma tail).

     When the comet is approaching the Sun,


    _____________________________________: when the comet is leaving of the Sun,
    __________________________________. The tail _______________________ as the
    comet moves far from the Sun. The ion tail can be well over 100 million km long.

     ________________________________: The dust tail is a long, wide tail


    composed of microscopic dust particles. This tail __________________________
    slightly due to the comet's motion. The tail fades
    _____________________________________________.
    Name __________________________ Other Objects in the Solar System
    Mr. Magnuson Astronomy Unit
     ________________________________: Hydrogen gas surrounds the coma of the
    comet and trails along for millions of miles (it is usually between the ion tail and the dust
    tail).
    Draw the Comet’s tail as it approaches the sun.

    Observe the clip. What happened to the comet’s tail?

    Describe what happens to Halley’s Comet as it approaches the sun.

    METEOROID
     What is a meteoroid?

     Where do most meteoroids come from?

    METEOR

     What is a meteor?

     What are meteors sometimes called?

    METEORITE

     What is a meteorite?

     What happens to most meteorites?

     Draw the lifecycle of a meteoroid

    Why do meteor showers occur?


    Name __________________________ Other Objects in the Solar System
    Mr. Magnuson Astronomy Unit

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