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Minor Members Things that didn’t make up planets or moons.

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Page 1: Minor Members Things that didn’t make up planets or moons

Minor Members

Things that didn’t make up planets or

moons.

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Asteroids• Rocky objects usually larger

than a mile across.• Most are found in the Asteroid

Belt between Mars and Jupiter• Earth has been hit by asteroids

in the past.

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Comets• Are mostly made of ice.• Orbit the sun.• Their return can be predicted.• Their tail shows the direction of the

sun, not which way they are headed.

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Meteoroids• Small (less than 1 mile) rocks in

space.• When they enter a planets

atmosphere they are meteors.• When they strike the ground, they

are meteorites.

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We Have Been Hit• The moon shows it’s record of

impacts because it has no erosion.

• Earth shows only recent signs of impact.

• One major theory says that we were hit 65 MYA and this killed the dinosaurs.

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Iridium• Iridium is very rare here on

Earth but plentiful in asteroids.

• A layer of Iridium is found at the K-T boundary (65 MYA)

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