Comets and Asteroids Quiz: Space Rocks
6 questions on icy visitors, rocky neighbors and the spacecraft sent out to meet them.
- Questions
6 - Length
About 4 min
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- Why does a comet grow a glowing tail as it nears the Sun?
- This is a polished slice of a meteorite. What is it mostly made of?
- About how long ago did an asteroid impact end the age of the dinosaurs?
- Halley's Comet comes back about once in a human lifetime. How many years pass between its visits?
- Sort these by distance from the Sun, closest first.
- What causes most meteor showers?