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
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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.