1. Forces in Creation
Continued

2. Asteroid Belt located between Mars and Jupiter
if perturbed becomes meteoroids—intersect Earth’s orbit
meteors—shooting stars, burning up in atmosphere
meteorites—hits the Earth

3. Comets elliptical orbit
solid dirty snowball made of CO2, water, dust, etc.
sublimates—turns from a solid to a gas

4. Comets continued 3 parts nucleus coma tail age
short period—less than 200 yrs.
long period—more than 200 yrs

5. Dwarf Planets orbit sun round in shape
has not “cleared the neighborhood” around its orbit
not a satellite
Ex. Pluto, Eris, Ceres