Comets are made of dust, rock and frozen gases that vaporize as they near the Sun, forming a coma and tail. Comets eventually break apart after passing by the Sun multiple times. Small pieces of comets are called meteoroids, which appear as meteors or "shooting stars" when burning up in Earth's atmosphere, or meteorites if they reach the ground. Asteroids are rocky bodies like planets that mainly orbit in a belt between Mars and Jupiter.

1. A. Comet: dust and rock particles combined with frozen water, methane, and ammonia.

2. 1. Halley’s comet: orbits Sun every 76 years.

3. 2. Oort Cloud: large group of comets surrounding solar system beyond Pluto.

4. 3. Amateur astronomers discovered Hale-Bopp in 1995.

5. 4. Comet structure: large dirty snowball of frozen rock and ice.

7. Comets vaporize and break up after passing close to the Sun several times. When the nucleus breaks up, pieces spread out. The dust and rock fragments are called Meteoroids .

8. B. (1.) Meteoroid : name given to small pieces of comet when they move through space.

9. B. (2.) Meteor : small meteoroid that burns up in Earth’s atmosphere.

10. B. (3.) Meteor Showers : occur when Earth’s orbit passes through a group of meteoroids that enter the atmosphere.

11. B. (4.) Meteorite : meteoroid that strikes Earth.

12. C. Asteroid : rock similar to that which formed planets.

13. C. (1.) Most asteroids lie in an asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter.

16. Near: The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous probe indicates asteroid 433 Eros has been in many collisions over time.

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