comets, asteroids and meteor/oids/ites. comets comets…. typically a few kilometers (miles) across...
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Comets, Asteroids and Meteor/oids/ites
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Comets
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Comets….
• Typically a few kilometers (miles) across
• Contain ice and frozen gases, rocks and dust.
• “Dirty snowball."
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Parts of a Comet
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Asteroids!
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Asteroids!
• Asteroids are rich in metals
• 3554 Amun is a mile-wide and composed of iron, nickel, cobalt, platinum, and other metals
• It contains 30 times as much metal as the entire amount of metal humans have mined in all history forever.
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Meteor/oids/ites
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Metoroids
3-10 ft rocks. Very, very, very small, boring asteroids.
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Meteors
• The flash of light you see in the sky. • “Shooting Stars.”
• We have METEOR SHOWERS.
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Meteorites
The meteoroid once it has landed on Earth.