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What are Chunks of small rocky metallic or icy objects from asteroids or comets?
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What space objects are made of chunks of rock?
Comets and asteroids are made of chunks of space rocks and dust. Meteorites are space rocks that are captured by the earth's gravity and fall to earth.
Why comets show a perceptible coma while asteroids do not?
Beacuse asteroids are chunks of solid rock - Comets are primarily lumps of ice - which melts as it nears the sun !
Which of the following objects is usually the smallest planets comets moons are asteroids?
Comets
Which of these are icy objects comets meteoroids or asteroids?
Usually comets are icy as that is why you see the icy trail, but asteroids can be icy too.
What two objects produce meteorites?
comets and asteroids
What two space objects produce meteorites?
comets and asteroids
What are differences of comets meteoroid's asteroids?
Comets : mostly ice & are often in very distant elliptical orbits. Meteoroids and asteroids are usually rocky and/or metallic, asteroids are found in the asteroid belt (between Mars & Jupiter).
What do comets and asteroids not have in common?
Comets are Comets and Asteroids are Asteroids
What small objects are made of ice and dust asteroids comets meteors or meteorites?
Some comets are made of ice and dust.
Which of these objects reflect light and which emit light Comets Asteroids Planets Sun Meteors Stars?
Reflectors: Comets, asteroids, planets Emitters: The sun, meteors, stars The sun is a star.
What are the objects that are found in a belt orbiting the sun between mars and Jupiter?
asteroids and comets
Why does the moon have a bunch of craters?
Impacts from space objects (i.e. asteroids, comets, and meteors).
