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Phy Project by Stefin

This document discusses asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. It provides details about each: asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter and were first discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801; comets have oval orbits and tails that stretch over 1 million km when near the sun; meteoroids are chunks of rock that may be asteroid fragments, some burn up in the atmosphere as meteors, and those that reach earth's surface are called meteorites.

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Phy Project by Stefin

This document discusses asteroids, comets, and meteoroids. It provides details about each: asteroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter and were first discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801; comets have oval orbits and tails that stretch over 1 million km when near the sun; meteoroids are chunks of rock that may be asteroid fragments, some burn up in the atmosphere as meteors, and those that reach earth's surface are called meteorites.

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phy project

asteroids and comets



Steffin
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Asteroids

Asteroids are small solar bodies or large pieces
of rock or metal rocks.
They orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
This region is called asteroid Belt.
The first asteroid to be discovered was Ceres
was found in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi .
There around 4000 asteroids orbiting the sun.

Asteroids pictures

Picture page:
Comets
A comet is an icy and dust practical small Solar System body that
when close enough to the Sun displays a visible coma (a thin,
fuzzy, temporary atmosphere ) and sometimes also a tail
It has a oval shape orbit.
Take more time to revolve the sun than asteroids.
When it come close to sun comets tail appears due to the
effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of
the comet . And tail stretches out up to 1 million kilometre .
It take few decades or thousand years to revolve.
Common comet is the Halley Comet named after Edmund
Halley.
It revolves around the sun once every 76 years.
Comets
Pictures of comets :
Meteoroids, meteors and
meteorites
Meteoroids : meteoroids are smaller than comets.
They are chunks of rocks.
They may be the particles of shattered asteroids.
When they come close to the earths orbit they are pulled
towards earth because of gravity of earth.
Around 15,000 metric tons of meteoroids and other space
dust enters Earth's atmosphere each year.
Meteors : the meteoroids burn up as the result, there a
enormous heat is generated. This makes a streak of light. This
is a meteor or a shooting star. It is also called falling star.
METEORITES : MOST OF THE METEOROIDS FULLY BURN UP
BEFORE REACHING THE EARTHS SURFACE BUT SOME DOES
NOT BURN UP
THEY HIT THE EARTHS SURFACE. THIS IS CALLED A
METEORITE.
THIS ARE THE PICTURES OF METEOROIDS :

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