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Comets,Asteroid,Meteors,and Stars
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Science
6th Grade
03/14/2013

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Size Range

The moon was formed when a large body about the size of Mars collided  with Earth ejecting a lot of materials from our planet.

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Mass

Mass of an asteroid (Ceres) is 590 miles

 Mass of Haley's Comets is 100,000,000,000,000

 Mass of some Stars are one tenth of the suns mass and others might have the mass of 10 or more 

 Mass of a meteor (Hoba) 54,000kg

The mass of the moon is 0.07349

 

 

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Distance from the Sun

Haley's Comet is 5,300,000,000km from the sun 

The closest an asteroid got to Earth was 777,000 KM

 

 

 

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Motions
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Traveling Speed
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Composition

Moons generally have soild bodies and few have atmospheres,most are from dics of gas and dust circulating aroun planets.

Comets are lumps of ice and dust that come into the center of our solar system.

Asteroids are rocky objects with round or irregular shapes

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Orbit
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Location

The moon is 238,750 miles away from Earth

Asteroids are located near the asteroid belt or near Jupiter and Mars

Comets are located in the center of our solar system from somwhere in the outer reaches

 

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