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| 1-7 of 7Asteroids flashcard sets | |||
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| # | Title | Terms | Date |
| 1 | Asteroids, Meteors, and Cometsby 13skravi | 7 terms | June 12, 2009 |
| 2 | The planets, comets and asteroidsby twins19944 | 31 terms | February 9, 2009 |
| 3 | Asteroids and Cometsby just1ncase | 5 terms | February 13, 2008 |
| 4 | 8th Grade Chapter 3 Section 5 Comets, Asteroids and Meteorsby allsaintsscience | 7 terms | October 25, 2009 |
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| 5 | asteroids, meteroids, and cometsby www_dot_website_dot_com | 16 terms | May 21, 2007 |
| 6 | Comets, Asteroids, and Meteorsby pandasarecute | 11 terms | April 9, 2008 |
| 7 | Astro Pluto asteroids, comets, meteors and the sun vocabby benblah1 | 39 terms | December 11, 2007 |
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| asteroids definitions | |||
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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | chunks of rock found mainly in the region of space between mars and jupiter | 6 sets | |
| 2 | rocky metallic objects that orbit the sun but are too small to be considered planets | 4 sets | |
| 3 | chunks of rock that look like giant potatoes in space | 4 sets | |
| 4 | objects revolving around the sun to small & numerous to be considered a planet. | 3 sets | |
| 5 | these range in diameter from one metre to many hundreds of kilometres | 3 sets | |
| 6 | objects in space that are too small and too numerous to be considered full fledged planets | 2 sets | |
| 7 | irregularly shaped rocks, metal and dust | 2 sets | |
| 8 | rocky metallic objects that orbit the sun but are too small to be considered a planet | 2 sets | |
| 9 | minor planets | 2 sets | |
| 10 | place where space rocks crashed into | 2 sets | |
| 11 | a small, rocky object that orbits the sun, usually in a band between the orbits of jupiter and mars | 2 sets | |
| 12 | small planets revolving around sun between mercury and jupiter | 2 sets | |
| 13 | most lie between orbits of mars and jupiter | 1 set | |
| 14 | space junk of irregular sizes and uncertain origin | 1 set | |
| 15 | small bodies of rock and metal. | 1 set | |
| 16 | 10 meters to 1000 kilometers in size | 1 set | |
| 17 | pieces of rocks made of minerals similar to rocky planets | 1 set | |
| 18 | a part of a comet that's been burned up, in its own belt between mars and jupiter | 1 set | |
| 19 | objects that are too small and too numerous to be considered planets. | 1 set | |
| 20 | small, often irregularly shaped bodies that orbit the sun | 1 set | |
| 21 | chunks of rock or metal that orbit the sun | 1 set | |
| 22 | rocky bodies, some the size of a garage and others 100's of kilometers long | 1 set | |
| 23 | chunks of rock, pieces of planets, or small planets that primarily orbit the sun in an "asteroid belt" between mars and jupiter | 1 set | |
| 24 | small objects that orbit the sun and many are found in the region between mars and jupiter | 1 set | |
| 25 | rocky solar system objects or widely varying size usually found between the orbits of mars and jupiter in an area called the asteroid belt | 1 set | |
| 26 | minor planets, chunks of rock, has belt between mars and jupiter | 1 set | |
| 27 | chunks of rock of different sizes that orbit the sun. | 1 set | |
| 28 | chunks of rock of diffeent sizes that orbit the sun. | 1 set | |
| 29 | ______ are mostly found in a belt between the orbit of mars and jupiter, some are solid, rocky to metallic while others are little more than "rubble piles" in space | 1 set | |
| 30 | barren chunks of rocks in space | 1 set | |
| 31 | rocky objects formed from material similar to that of planets | 1 set | |
| 32 | rocky objects formed from material similar to that of the planets | 1 set | |
| 33 | made of rock and usually follow regular orbits around the sun. | 1 set | |
| 34 | rock remnant of early solar system | 1 set | |
| 35 | small, rocky odies that revolve around the sun. | 1 set | |
| 36 | fragments of rock that orbit the sun. | 1 set | |
| 37 | rocky objects that revolve around the sun between the orbits of mars and jupiter | 1 set | |
| 38 | most asteroids originate from any one of the 3 sources | 1 set | |
| 39 | small, irregulary shaped, planet-like objects found mainly in the asteroid belt between mars and jupiter. some path earth's orbit | 1 set | |
| 40 | travel at ~60,000mph --> ____ is vaporized by heat & pressure // hopefully will break up as they go through atmosphere to form a teardrop pattern on ground | 1 set | |