LAS 5 - Space Rocks

• Meteors are meteoroids that enter Earth's atmosphere and burn up
• Meteroids are solid, rockline objects from space that revoke around the sound, they are also found on the asteroid belt
• Asteroid belt is the gap or area between the planets mars and jupiter
• Comets are chunks of ice, gas and dust that orbits the sun in a long, narrow eliptical orbit
• 3 Parts of a Comet: Nucleus, Coma & Tail
• Nucleus - is the whole comet, but as it approaches the sun, it warms and glows
• Coma - forms around the nucleus. The nucleus and the coma make up the head of the comet
• Tail - form when wind blows the dust and gases heated by the sun
• Famous comets: Hailey's Comet (appears once every 76 years)