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What happens when a comet gets close to the sun?
The energy in sunlight turns ice into gas and releases gas and dust
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Which direction does a comet's gas tail point?
Away from the sun
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What is a coma?
The fuzzy outer layer of a comet's head that is composed of gas and dust
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Where are all dwarf planets except Ceres found?
Beyond Neptune; In the Kuiper belt; Eris is beyond the Kuiper belt
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What are two ways that meteoroids form?
Asteroids colliding; comets breaking up
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What is a comet?
Loose collections of ice, dust, and small rocky particles whose orbits can be very long, narrow ellipses; An Oakwood High School student
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How are meteoroids different from asteroids?
They are less than 10 meters across while some asteroids are more than 3000 kilometers across
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What is the asteroid belt?
A region of the solar system between Mars and Jupiter
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What is a meteorite?
A meteoroid that has passed through the atmosphere and is found on Earth's surface
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When did scientists develop the category of dwarf planets?
2006
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What are asteroids?
Rocky objects which are too small and numerous to be considered planets or dwarf planets. Most are not spherical.
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How do scientists classify small solar system objects?
Based on their sizes, shapes, compositions, and orbits
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What do scientists hypothesize asteroids are?
Leftover pieces of the early solar system that never came together to form a planet
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