10/16/15 and 10/19/15

Small Bodies in the Solar System Vocabulary

Students will create a Vocabulary Foldable for the following terms:

1.                  Comet

2.                  Asteroid

3.                  Meteoroid

4.                  Meteorite

5.                  Meteor

6.                  Dwarf planet

Oort Cloud

                                Kuiper Belt

 

Asteroids

   (180-181)

What is the difference between a meteoroid, meteor, and meteorite?

 Meteoroid, Meteor, and Meteorite (YouTube)

        Meteor Crater (Northern Arizona)

    

RUSSIAN METEOR EXPLOSION (YOUTUBE)

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Comets (pages 178-179)

   Halley's Comet (Class-zone)

                                                   

 Comet (Mixture of dust and ice)

How are asteroids, comets and meteors different?

Kepler's Law of Planetary Motion

HIGHLY ELLIPTICAL ORBITS 

APHELION- FAR (SLOW)   

PERHELION- CLOSE (FAST)

Dwarf Planet (Click Here)

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