Asteroids, Meteors, and Comets

This bingo card has a free space and 24 words: A comet’s nucleus is made up of frozen water and gases mixed with dust and rock material, Meteors are small pieces of rock or metal from space that burn up when entering Earth’s atmosphere, Asteroids are made up of rock, Meteor showers occur when earth passes through debris, Asteroids revolve around the Sun in elliptical orbits, Meteoroids are chunks of rock or metal that orbit the sun, Comets have two tails; a dust tail and an ion tail, Meteors are when meteoroids pass through Earth’s atmosphere and burn up., A coma is the dusty, gaseous atmosphere that surrounds the nucleus of a comet, Comets are primarily composed of ice, dust, and rock, Meteors are sometimes observed with red, yellow, or green trails., Meteorites are meteoroids that survive their passage through the atmosphere and land on Earth’s surface., Meteors move when it enters Earth’s atmosphere. Doing so can slow down its orbital speed., Asteroids are found in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Millions of asteroids exist in the solar system., Meteors can be called “shooting stars”, Comets are found in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud., A comet’s tail is caused when they’re partly vaporized by the sun. The tail doesn’t follow behind the comet’ it always points away from the sun, Comets are nicknamed ‘dirty snowballs’, Meteors are found in the Earth’s atmosphere, dry, barren land, or Antarctica., Some asteroids have water-ice trapped in their rubble mass, Comet tails can be millions of miles long, Some asteroids have moons and Comets move in a highly elliptical orbit around the Sun.

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