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Get Crafy Glosary
Comets and Asteroids Game
Invent your own board game all asteroid (AS-teh-royd) A large meteoroid (MEE-tee-uh-royd)
about comets, asteroids, and meteoroids. rock that is orbiting the Sun. An A small piece of rock or dust
asteroid can be as small as a car that has broken free from
or bigger than a mountain. a comet or asteroid.
Game Ideas
Divide a large, atmosphere (AT-muh-sfeer) orbit (OR-bit) To circle, or move
square piece of Here are some ideas to get A layer of gases around a planet, around, another object.
construction paper you started: moon, or star.
into 25 squares. • Try throwing a dice and moving planet (PLAN-et) A large object
Draw or paint that number of squares. What comet (KAH-mit) A space object in space that is orbiting the Sun.
comets, asteroids, happens when you land on a made of ice, rock, and dust that Some planets, such as Earth, are
and meteoroids on picture? is orbiting the Sun. made of rock. Others, such as
the squares. Now • Maybe you zoom 3 squares Jupiter, are made of gases and
make up the rules of forward if you land on a comet? crater (KRAY-tur) A bowl-shaped liquids.
your game, and play • Perhaps you have to go back hole in the ground. Craters are
with a friend! to the start if you land on an often caused by asteroids and probe (PROBE) A spacecraft that
asteroid? other large, rocky objects hitting does not have any people
the surface of a planet or moon. aboard. Probes are usually sent
to planets or other objects in
dwarf planet (DWARF PLAN-et) space to take photographs and
A round object in space that is collect information. They are
orbiting the Sun. Dwarf planets controlled by scientists on Earth.
are much smaller than the eight
main planets. solar system (SOH-ler SIS-tem)
The Sun and all the objects that
gas (GASS) A substance, such as orbit it, such as planets, their
oxygen or helium, that does not moons, asteroids, and comets.
have a denite shape or size.
star (STAR) A huge ball of
meteor (MEE-tee-uhr) A small burning gases in space. Our Sun
space object, such as a is a star.
meteoroid, that appears as a
steak of light as it burns up in
Earth’s atmosphere.
meteorite (MEE-tee-uhr-ite)
A piece of another rocky object
that has landed on a planet or
a moon.
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