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Other Objects in the Solar System
Other Objects in the Solar System
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Supports an introduction to objects in our Solar System. Oort cloud, anatomy of comets, etc.
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Dirty snowball mixes with orbits that are long, narrow ellipses is called a
Comet
Satellite
Belt
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Comets with predictable orbits are
Long period
Short period
Standard
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Long period comets
Have predictable orbits
Have erratic orbits
Have regular orbits
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What direction do comet tails usually go?
Toward the sun
Away from the sun
Its random
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The Kuiper Belt is a....
A belt of small objects orbiting the sun beyond Neptune
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Outside ring of Saturnn
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Most astroids are found
Between the Earth and Mars
Between Mars and Jupiter
In the rings of Saturn
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The dusty snowball of rocks, ice and frozen gases is what part of the comet?
The hydrogen cloud
The tail
The nucleus
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A satellite is...
tiny space dust
large object that orbits planets
never manmade
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What space object can cause craters on earth?
Meteor
Meteorite
Comet
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This object may contain trillions of icy objects
The iCloud
The Orbit Cloud
The Oort Cloud
