Comets, Asteroids and Meteor/oids/ites

Comets

Comets….

• Typically a few kilometers (miles) across

• Contain ice and frozen gases, rocks and dust.

• “Dirty snowball."

Parts of a Comet

Asteroids!

Asteroids!

• Asteroids are rich in metals

• 3554 Amun is a mile-wide and composed of iron, nickel, cobalt, platinum, and other metals

• It contains 30 times as much metal as the entire amount of metal humans have mined in all history forever.

Meteor/oids/ites

Metoroids

3-10 ft rocks. Very, very, very small, boring asteroids.

Meteors

• The flash of light you see in the sky. • “Shooting Stars.”

• We have METEOR SHOWERS.

Meteorites

The meteoroid once it has landed on Earth.