Question

Learning Task 4: Place a check mark in your answer sheet to indicate
characteristics of asteroids, comets, and meteors.
Meteor
Meteorite
Eliptical Orbit
Comets
Meteors
Asteroids​

Answer 1

Answer:

meteor / meteorite / Elliptical orbit /

comets / meteors / asteroids /

Answer 2

Asteroids, comets, meteors, meteorite, etc., are masses of solid in space that appears as stars when observed from the Earth.

• The characteristics of these masses are:

• Asteroids are solids with irregular bodies that lack rings and atmosphere.

• Ceres, the first and largest asteroid to be discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi in the year 1801.

• Comets are cosmic snowballs made up of frozen gases, dust, and rocks

• They lack rings and a moon.

• Meteors and  Meteorites begin as meteoroids which are rocks and debris in space.

• An elliptical orbit is a type of galaxy that is ellipsoidal in shape.