Comets, Asteroids, Meteoroids, Meteors, and Meteorites

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________ are very large chunks of rock or metal that orbit the Sun.

Earth isn't pocked with craters from meteorites like the moon because ______.

What do you call the gas cloud that surrounds the nucleus of a comet?

Astronomers think that comets come from deep space from the ____________.

Comets orbit the sun in a(n) _______.

What results when a meteorite hits a planet or moon?

This is a small piece of rock or metal that travels through space outside of Earth's atmosphere.

This is a piece or rock or metal that fall onto a moon or planet.