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Lesson 5 - The Debris

This document contains a lesson on debris in the solar system including comets, meteorites, asteroids, Pluto and Charon. It discusses that comets are mixtures of ice and dust left over from the formation of the solar system. Meteorites are rocky or metallic fragments from asteroids or comets that reach the ground. Asteroids are small rocky objects that orbit the sun, mostly in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Pluto is a dwarf planet about half the size of Earth with 5 moons, including its large moon Charon which orbits Pluto every 6.4 days.

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Lesson 5 - The Debris

This document contains a lesson on debris in the solar system including comets, meteorites, asteroids, Pluto and Charon. It discusses that comets are mixtures of ice and dust left over from the formation of the solar system. Meteorites are rocky or metallic fragments from asteroids or comets that reach the ground. Asteroids are small rocky objects that orbit the sun, mostly in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Pluto is a dwarf planet about half the size of Earth with 5 moons, including its large moon Charon which orbits Pluto every 6.4 days.

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LESSON 5:

THE DEBRIS
PREPARED BY:
JEZZEL KEYT O.
QUIMOYOG
BSED 3D
TOPICS:
1.Comets
2.Meteorites
3.Asteroids
4.Pluto and Charon
TOPIC 1:
COME
TS
COMETS
A mixture of ices and dust
that for some reason didn't
get incorporated into
planets when the solar
system was formed.
PARTS OF COMETS
TYPES OF COMETS

LONG-PERIOD SHORT-PERIOD
COMETS COMETS
- comets have orbital periods - comets have orbital period less
longer than 200 years. than 200 years.
TOPIC 2:
METEORIT
ES
METEOROIDS, METEORS AND
METEORITES

METEROIDS METEORS METEORITES


Rocky or metallic Streak of light seen when Meteor fragment that
fragment of an asteroid, a meteoroid heats up in the reaches the ground.
comet, or planet atmosphere.
TYPES OF
METEORITES
1. STONY METEORITES
 made up of minerals that contain silicates.
 most abundant kind of meteorite.
 has two major types: 1. Chondrites ;
2. Achondrites.
2. IRON METEORITES
 mostly made of metals
 most massive meteorites ever discovered
 has three groups grading; 1. Hexahedrites;
2. Octahedrites;
3. Ataxites.
3. STONY-IRON METEORITES

 consist of a mixture of metals and silicates.


 extremely rare, making up less than 2% of all
known meteorites.
 divided into two groups: 1. Pallasites;
2. Mesosiderites.
What is a meteor
shower and how it
occurs?
TOPIC 3:
ASTEROID
S
ASTEROIDS
 small, rocky objects
that orbit the Sun
 most of them are
located in the main
asteroid belt
THREE COMPOSITION CLASSES
OF ASTEROIDS
C– TYPES
S– TYPE M– TYPE
(CHONDRITE
(STONY) (METALLIC)
S)
-consist of clay and -made up of silicate -composed of nickel
silicate rocks materials and nickel- and iron.
iron.
Asteroids Classification

1. Main Asteroid Belt


2. Trojan
3. Near-Earth Asteroid
TOPIC
PLUTO 4:
AND
CHARON
PLUTO
Pluto is about 1,400 miles A year on Pluto is 248 Earth
(2,380 km) wide. years. A day on Pluto lasts
153 hours,

Pluto is officially classified Pluto has 5 moons.


as a dwarf planet.
CHARON
Discovered in 1978 when It is almost half the size of
sharp-eyed astronomer James Pluto.
Christy.

It orbit around Pluto takes It is more neutral grey than


6.4 Earth days, Pluto
THANK
YOU
1. Main Asteroid Belt
 The majority of known asteroids orbit within the
asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, generally
with not very elongated orbits.
2. Trojan
 These asteroids share an orbit with a larger planet,
but do not collide with it because they gather
around two special places in the orbit
3. Near-Earth Asteroids:
 These objects have orbits that pass close by that of
Earth.

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