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Chapter 3 Science
Lesson 6 Small Solar System Objects
Term | Definition |
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Asteroid Blet | is a region of the solar system between Mars and Jupiter |
Kuiper Belt | a region where many small objects orbit the sun and that stretches from beyond the orgit of Neptune to about 100 times Earth's distance from the sun |
Oort Cloud | a spherical region of comets that surrounds the solar system |
Comet | a loose collection of ice and dust that orbits the sun, typically in a long, narrow orbit |
Coma | the fuzzy outer layer of a comet |
Nucleus | the solid inner core of a comet |
Asteroid | one of the rocky objects revolving around the sun that are too small and numerous to be considered planets |
Meteoroid | a chunk of rock or dust in space, generally smaller than an asteroid |
Meteor | a streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth's atmosphere |
Meteorite | a meteoroid that passes through the atmosphere and hits Earth's surface |