SOLAR SYSTEM

UNIVERSE

ASTEROIDS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ are small chunks of rock and space junk that can be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a boulder which not entered Earth’s atmosphere.
A
Meteors
B
Meteroids
C
Asteroids
D
Comets
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Meteoroids are objects in space that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids. Think of them as “space rocks."

Detailed explanation-2: -Meteoroids are lumps of rock or iron that orbit the sun, just as planets, asteroids, and comets do. Meteoroids, especially the tiny particles called micrometeoroids, are extremely common throughout the solar system.

Detailed explanation-3: -Smaller pieces of rock and iron that travel through space are called meteoroids. Meteoroids orbit our Sun just like asteroids and planets.

Detailed explanation-4: -Comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock, and dust that orbit the Sun. When frozen, they are the size of a small town.

Detailed explanation-5: -A meteoroid is a chunk of rock or dust in space. Meteoroids come from comets or asteroids.

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