TRANSIENT BODIES

ABOUT TRANSIENT BODIES

• Transients means impermanet
• Its something that doesn't last long

METEORS, METEORITES, AND METEROIDS

• Meteor,meteorites, and meteroids are all the same thing but in different locations
• Meteoroid is when the space rock is just floating in space
• Meteor is when its falling down in Earth's Atmosphere
• A Meteorite is when it lands on Earth

HOW DO THEY MOVE?

• A piece breaks off the celestial body( Meteroid)
• It floats around until it gets sucked into Earth's gravitational pull
• Then when its falling down its a meteor (aka "Falling Star"
• When its falling the atmosphere around is hot with white sparks.
• Finally its hits Earth surface but not all of it make it all the way to the ground

SURFACE AND ATMOSPHERE

• The surface when its falling is steaming hot
• The surface of a meteorite is smooth and is sort of warm
• The inside is still frozen because all the heat is directed towards the surface
• The atmosphere around a meteor is white hot sparks
• The atmosphere around a meteorite is warm if it had recently landed

CATEGORIZED AND INTERESTING FACTS

• This transient is usually categorized by the material its made up of(Iron)
• Interesting fact: During meteor showers meteors is smaller than a grain of samd
• Interesting Fact: The surface of a meteorite has holes from falling and pieces breaking off

ASTEROIDS

• Nickel and iron is pulled to the middle by gravity.
• Lighter rocks make up the surface.
• Asteroids are too small to have enough gravitational pull
• for an atmosphere.

HOW THEY MOVE

• 10,000 are in the Asteroid belt.
• Some are caught in the orbit of planets.
• Revolve around the Sun in an Ovular orbit.
• Despite what Star Trek says, the real Asteroid
• Belt can be easily maneuvered by a space ship.

ASTEROID FACTS

• All known Asteroids put together are supposed to have
• a smaller mass than the Moon.
• Scientists believe Dinosaurs were killed by an Asteroid.
• One crater is as big as a small city

WHAT IS A COMET?

• A ball of ice and rock
• Found in the comet belt
• Has a 200 year orbit
• Can only be seen as they pass through the sun

THINGS YOU DIDNT KNOW!!

• A comets nucleus can be be 5 to 10 miles wide
• Its tail can be over 1 million miles long
• Comets are named after their discoverer
• Haley's comet is the most important
• Comets come from the formation of planets

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• "Asteroids." The Solar System:. N.p., n.d. Web.8 Nov. 2013. .
• "Asteroids"  l Asteroid facts, pictures, pictures and information. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Nov. 2013. .
• Trefil, James S.. " Our Solar System Chapter 19." McDougal Littell science. South Carolina ed.; Student's ed. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2007. 677-679. Print.