Small+Bodies

comets  -70-80% of comets are made of frozen gas and water, the other 20-30% is chunks of metal and rock -the tail o comets don't form until the comet gets close enough to the sun -comet orbits are highly elliptical. then go close to the sun then go far out in space beyond pluto -long orbit comets start at Oorts cloud -short orbit comets start from Kuiper belt, which is located just past neptune  -Hayley's comet can be seen every 75-76 years -only short period comets are visible -orbit periods can range from a few years to hundreds of thousands of years



Asteroids

-do not have an atmosphere because there are no people who live there and it only divides Mars and Jupiter into two separate parts. -asteroids in the asteroid belt have slighty elliptical orbit, time for one revolution around the sun varies from about 3-6 earth years. -named after mythical heros and gods -280 million miles. -these two moons Dactyl,Petit-Prince have been found orbiting asteroids along with many more. -the oldest asteroid is 208 years old. -30,000 of these giant rocks are known to be floating in the own individual orbits between Mars and Jupiter. -are metallic and rocky objects that orbit the sun. -made of iron-nickel material. -rarely leave their orbit unless they are hit and are forced to spin out of control.

 Meteors, meteoroids, meteorites -meteoroids are smaller then an astroid and considerably larger then an atom -the fastest meteoroids move about 26 miles per second -meteorites are always still in space -meteors burn up to the size of sugar grains -meteors are called shooting stars and they are a visible streak of light that appears when meteoroids enter earths atmosphere

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