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    Elyza Grace Calumpita wrote a science activity sheet comparing and contrasting asteroids and comets. Asteroids are located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, are rocky with iron and nickel composition, and have nearly circular orbits around the Sun with periods of 1-100 years. Comets originate from the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud and have highly elliptical orbits around the Sun with periods of 75 to 100,000+ years. Comets contain ice, frozen gases, and organic compounds that melt as they approach the Sun, forming their characteristic bright tails. While asteroids and comets share similarities in shape and size, they differ in composition, orbital characteristics, and location in the solar system.

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    Elyza Grace Calumpita wrote a science activity sheet comparing and contrasting asteroids and comets. Asteroids are located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, are rocky with iron and nickel composition, and have nearly circular orbits around the Sun with periods of 1-100 years. Comets originate from the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud and have highly elliptical orbits around the Sun with periods of 75 to 100,000+ years. Comets contain ice, frozen gases, and organic compounds that melt as they approach the Sun, forming their characteristic bright tails. While asteroids and comets share similarities in shape and size, they differ in composition, orbital characteristics, and location in the solar system.

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    Elyza Grace Calumpita wrote a science activity sheet comparing and contrasting asteroids and comets. Asteroids are located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, are rocky with iron and nickel composition, and have nearly circular orbits around the Sun with periods of 1-100 years. Comets originate from the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud and have highly elliptical orbits around the Sun with periods of 75 to 100,000+ years. Comets contain ice, frozen gases, and organic compounds that melt as they approach the Sun, forming their characteristic bright tails. While asteroids and comets share similarities in shape and size, they differ in composition, orbital characteristics, and location in the solar system.

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    Elyza Grace Calumpita Grade 8 Leeuwenhoek

    Science 8 Activity Sheet no.6

    Activity 1 ASTEROID
    Ice (frozen water);
    frozen gases
    (ammonia, methane,
    More rounded, 1-100 and carbon dioxide);
    orbital period, More other organic
    rounded, Rocky compounds
    appearance, 1-100++ size, (Carbon-containing
    compounds),
    and Main Asteroid Belt
    silicates and the
    Both asteroid and location is Outer
    meteoroid refer space
    to bodies in our
    solar system that
    orbit the Sun but Varied/
    are not large Irregular
    enough to be
    shape and
    deemed planets
    Too small to Kuiper Belt & Oort
    Meteoroid, <0.05 - be planets Cloud, 1-10 (nucleus
    1.7 size, Silicates, only)size , 75 to
    nickel and iron, No Both are relatively 100,000+++ orbital
    small objects that period Highly
    orbit, Earth’s
    have their origins elliptical, and Tail
    atmosphere, and
    in interplanetary made from melting
    Bright tail of light space, orbiting the ice appearance.
    appearance sun

    METEORS COMETS

    1. Asteroid and Comets because it’s location is the Outer space.


    2. Iron and nickel.
    3. Comets orbital period is 75 to 100,000+++ while meteor has no orbital period.
    4. They differ from size range of diameter, orbital period, orbit, and appearance.
    5. The three related by their shape and approximate size.

    V.

    Superstitions about comets and asteroids, such as the fear that bad luck will arrive, are based
    in science only so far as that these phenomena do occur. The bad luck that comes along with
    them, however, has little to do with reality. Superstitions about comets and asteroids have
    absolutely no scientific basis.

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