SMALL BODIES IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

DWARF PLANET

• A Dwarf Planet is a body that orbits the sun and it is round because of it's gravity. But the dwarf planet in not in the solar system because it doesn't have the mass to be able to be in the solar system. A dwarf planet has not cleared the area around its orbit, while a planet has.

KUIPER BELT

• A Kuiper belt is in the solar system as begins beyond the orbit of Neptune and has small bodies made of ice.

KUIPER BELT OBJECT

• Kuiper Belt Object is minor bodies made of methane ice, ammonia ice, and water ice. The first Kuiper Belt Object was found in 1992.

COMET

• A comet is a small body of ice, rock, and dust that goes in an elliptical orbit around the sun.As a comet passes close to the sun, it will give off gas and dust forming of a coma and a tail.

OORT CLOUD

• The Oort Cloud is an extended shell of icy objects that exist in the outermost reaches of the solar system. It is named after astronomer Jan Oort, who first theorised its existence. The Oort Cloud is about spherical, and is thought to be the origin of some of the long-period comets that have been observed.

ASTEROID

• A astroid is a small rocky body orbiting the sun. Large numbers of these, ranging in size from nearly 600 miles across to dust particles, are found as the asteroid belt especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, though some have more orbits, and a few pass close to the earth or enter the atmosphere as meteors.

METEOROID

• A small body moving in the solar system that would become a meteor if it entered the earth's atmosphere.

METEOR

• A small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere, becoming incandescent as a result of friction and appearing as a streak of light.

METEORITE

• A meteor that survives its passage through the earth's atmosphere such that part of it strikes the ground. More than 90 percent of meteorites are of rock, while the remainder consist partly of iron and nickel.

SHOOTING STAR

• shooting star has nothing a to do with a star at all! These amazing streaks of light you can sometimes see in the night sky are caused by tiny bits of dust and rock called meteor falling into the Earth's atmosphere and burning up.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A DWARF PLANET AND A PLANET

• The difference between a planet and a dwarf planet is the area surrounding each celestial body. A dwarf planet has not cleared the area around its orbit, while a planet has.

What is the difference between an asteroid a comet a meteor a meteorite?

• In space, a large rocky body in orbit about the Sun is referred to as an asteroid or minor planet whereas much smaller particles in orbit about the Sun are referred to as meteoroids.

ARE METEOROIDS, METEORS, AND METEORITES ALMOST THE SAME THING?

• Most meteors result from meteoroids no more than a few centimeters in diameter. A larger meteoroid which survives the fiery passage through the Earth's atmosphere as a meteor and strikes the Earth's surface is called a meteorite.

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