Comments Meteors Meteoroids A Meteorites Flashcards
1
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What is: a frozen bottle of gas and dust the orbits the sun in a very elliptical path?
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Comet
2
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What is: smaller than asteroids and are often caught by a planets gravitational pull?
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Meteoroid
3
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What is: something that enters and atmosphere and burns up?
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Meteor
4
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What is: something that survives the entry of the atmosphere and hits earth?
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Meteorite
5
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What is: extremely dense quantity of matter in space from which no light or matter can escape?
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Black hole
6
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What is: rotating cloud of gas and dust which are the birthplace of stars?
A
Nebula
