WHAT ARE COMETS AND ASTERIODS? HOW DO THEY FORM?
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WHAT ARE COMETS AND ASTERIODS? HOW DO THEY FORM?
By: Maria Angelika E. EspenoEnvi Sci 7
Things we are going to discuss:
• Comets Asteroids 1. Examples 1. Examples
2. Formation 2. Formation
Awww.kidsastronomy.com www.kidsastronomy.com
What are “Comets”
• planetesimal • “dirty snowball”• Oort Cloud & Kupier Belt• Long haired starHow is a comet formed?created by the collapse of a giantdiffuse of cloud dust 4.6B years ago
Examples of Comets
• Comet West• Comet Halley
Comet Halley
• Edmund Halley
Comet West• November 5, 1975•Richard West
What is an asteroid?
• Large rock in outer space• “planetoid”• THE ASTEROID BELT:• Contains 40,000 asteroids• Found in between Mars and Jupiter
Examples of Asteroids
• Ida & Dactyl• 2001KX76
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Ida & Dactyl
• Ida- A unique asteroid• Dactyl- Ida’s moon
2001 KX76
• Also known as “The New Asteroid King”
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FORMATION OF COMETS & ASTEROIDS
• ASTEROIDS-left over material from the formation of our planets
• COMETS-collapse of a giant diffuse of cloud dust 4.6 billion years ago!
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
• http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/asteroids.html
• //www.kidsastronomy.com/comets.htm• //www.kidsastronomy.com/asteroid.htm
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/comets/halley.html www.fallofathousandsuns.com/comet-west.html
SOURCES OF IMAGES
• www.kidsastronomy.com• apod.nasa.gov• astronomycafe.net• www.tenfactsabout.co.uk• wisegeek.com• http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/olaf• www.dailygalaxy.com