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| Comets are chunks of ice and dust whose orbits are usually very long and narrow. |
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| What are the 3 main parts of a comet? |
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| How does the comet's tail form? |
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| a comet's tail forms when the comet gets close enough to the sun that the heat turns the ice into gas forming dust (solar wind pushes the gas away from the sun) |
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| Where is the asteroid belt located. |
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| Most asteroids revolve around the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. |
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| What is a streak of light caused by the burning of a meteoroid in the atmosphere? |
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| What is a chunk of rock or dust in space? |
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| What is a meteoroid that has passed through the atmosphere and hit Earth's surface? |
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| Where do meteoroids come from? |
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| they are chunks of asteroids or comets. |
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