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Do meteors have surface gravity?
Yes they are. Every object that has mass follows the well known formulas of gravity. Comets are no exception. Their orbits around the sun are perfectly and completely described by the formulas of gravity.
What is the difference between an asteroid and a meteoroid?
An asteroid is a large rocky object that orbits the sun, while a meteoroid is a smaller rocky object that travels through space. When a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere and burns up, it is called a meteor.
What are the main forces acting on falling rock?
Gravity and air resistance.
What is the name of the phenomenon in which many of these objects fall through the atmosphere in a relatively short time and in approximately parallel trajectories?
The phenomenon you are referring to is a meteor shower. It occurs when Earth passes through a trail of debris left by a comet or asteroid, causing a cluster of meteors to enter and burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
What limits the speed of an object in outer space?
The speed of light, depending on how much momentum an object has. Nothing can surpass the speed of light. the Speed of light is exactly 186,282 miles per second, or 299,792,458 metres per second. Let's imagine a scenario. A meteor is racing through space at the speed of light. If said meteor were to crash into an object, then said meteor will lose most its momentum. As some of the kinetic energy from the meteor is transferred to the object it hit, another meteor, for example, then the first meteor should be travelling at a slower pace, where as the secondary meteor should now be travelling faster than before it got hit, unless of course, both meteors were travelling at the Speed of light, in which case, they should both be flung backwards at the same speed. To conclude, objects and the Speed of light limit the speed of an object in space.
A meteor is an asteroid that has been captured by a planets or a moons gravity and had been pulled away from the suns gravity true or false?
false, meters are asteroids in the earth atmosphere
What are some differences between an asteroid and an meteor?
There isn't really any differences they are the same thing except an asteroid is MUCH MUCH bigger than a meteor, an asteroid is what killed off the dinos along time ago not a meteor. So say Jupiter and Pluto were a meteor, and a asteroid, Pluto wouold be the meteor and Jupiter would be the asteroid
Why do planets look like a perfect circle from a distance?
It's part of the definition of "planet". An asteroid or meteor can have any shape, because its gravity isn't great enough to crush it into a mostly-spherical shape. But planets ARE massive enough that they have to be spherical; their gravity forces them into that shape. If their spin is fast enough, the equatorial regions will bulge out, such as with Earth and especially with Jupiter.
Which object in our solar system has the least gravity?
Either a dust speck in the asteroid belt or in the Kuyper belt.
What burns up before it hit the earths surface meteor or asteroid?
A meteor.
Is an asteroid a meteor that strikes earth surface?
No. A meteor that gets to the ground is a meteoroid. An Asteroid is an orbiting body between Mars ans Jupiter.
Why do the outer planets have rings?
They get a different kind of gravity that far away from the sun. They can also get meteor pieces that have fallen of comets that we can not get, because we get too much of the sun's gravity.
Where would the greatest amount of stars be found?
In a galaxy. Solar systems only have planets and also asteroid belts and meteor showers are not somewhere that you can find a lot of stars :).
What produced the craters in the moon?
Asteroid/meteor impacts.
What is another word for the words meteor and asteroid?
There is no synonym for them.
What is the difference between asteroids and metiorite?
A meteorite is a meteor that lands on the earth. An asteroid is a natural object that is still in space (not including larger objects such as moons, planets and stars, of course).
What is the difference of a meteor and an asteroid?
An asteroid is a heavenly body which has its own orbit, between mars and jupiter, and revolve around the sun. It is made up of dust and rock. Meteor is also a heavenly body like asteroid but smaller than that.
