Comet vs ateroids, meteors?
What are Asteroids and Meteors? Asteroid Asteroids are tiny rocky planets that orbit the Sun. They can be as small as 1 kilometer(km) across or as large as 700 km. There are thousands of asteroids in our Solar System. Most of them can be found in an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids whose orbits cross the Earth’s orbit are called Apollo asteroids. There are so many asteroids that scientists just identify them with numbers or they may name them after people. What are Meteors? Meteors or “shooting stars” are space particles that have either been left behind by comets, or broken off from asteroids. Meteors orbiting the Sun are called meteoroids and are made of rocks and chunks of metal like iron and nickel. A falling meteor is spectacular to watch as it leaves a bright trail of light across the sky called a fireball. Sometimes the Earth passes through a stream of meteors called a meteor shower. Meteor showers can be seen in the sky almost on the same date each year. The be
