Other Members of the Solar System Flashcards
are generally rocky and irregularly shaped celestial objects.
Asteroids
also known as chondrite, refers to asteroids that are mostly made of clay and silicates.
C-type
which means stony, is usually rocky in nature and generally made up of nickel, iron, and other silicates.
S-type
refers to metallic asteroids and is usually made up of pure nickel and iron.
M-type
is the asteroid belt, which is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Main Belt
asteroids that pass near Earth.
Near-earth asteroids
asteroids located near Jupiter Lagrange.
Trojans
The largest known asteroid in the inner solar system.
4 Vesta
solid and known as the central part of the comet.
Nucleus
when the comet gets close to the sun, the gases sublimate and create an envelope or cloud around the nucleus.
Coma
the radiation and solar wind of the sun pushes some of the dust particles away from the coma creating the comet.
Tail
which is named after Jan Oort, is found at the outermost part of the solar system.
Oort cloud
is an area where most comets are found and is located near the orbits of Neptune up to Pluto.
Kuiper belt
debris that are usually rocky and metallic in nature that orbit the solar system.
Meteoroids
when a meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere and burns up creating a streak of light.
Meteor
