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Small Bodies in our Solar System

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1
What causes a comet from the Oort cloud to enter the inner solar system?
An asteroid
A meteor
The gravitational forces of the Milky way
A passing star
2
What was the name of the guy who first theorized the Oort Cloud?
Jack Oort
James Black
John Ohort
Jan Oort
3
An asteroid's diameter can range from the size of a pebble to...
5 miles
7 feet
2 trillion feet
600 miles
4
What is a coma?
Small rock bodies orbiting the sun,
Spherical cloud of gas that comes off of the nucleus.
A gas that has been stripped of electrons.
A small body made of ice and rock.
5
What two planets is the Asteroid Belt located between?
Mars and Jupiter
Earth and Mars
Mercury and Venus
Jupiter and Saturn
6
Asteroids aren't considered planets because...
They're too big.
They're too small.
They don't want to be.
They aren't the right shape.
7
What is an estimate to how much objects are in the Oort cloud?
7
2 billion
40,000
2 trillion
8
Dwarf planets are...
a celestial body that orbits the sun
small bodies of ice, rock, and dust
planets that look like dwarfs
spherical regions that surrounds the solar system
9
What is the Kuiper Belt?
The Kuiper Belt is the name of a moon in Jupiters orbit
A belt made of rock
A place in our solar system with 20 million planets
A region in our solar system that is beyond Neptune's orbit
10
What is the name of a meteoroid that lands on Earth's surface?
Meteor
Meteorite
Asteroid Belt
Comet