[DOC] [TLE] Asteroids, meteoroids, meteors, meteorites, comets - Sun.org [PAR] Aug 8, 2016 ... Mostly debris of comets, sometimes debris of asteroids. ... Meteorite, The part of a 
meteoroid or asteroid that survives the passage through our ... Comet, A smaller 
celestial body mainly composed of ice and dust. ... The meteors during these 
meteor showers almost all emerge from the same section of the sky... [DOC] [TLE] What Causes a Meteor Shower? | How to Observe a Meteor Shower [PAR] Meteor showers are produced when Earth passes through a trail of comet debris. 
... Figure 1: A composite image of meteors from the Geminid meteor shower of 
2007 ... Sporadics are the ones most people see while gazing into the night sky. 
... The bright streaks extending to the left of the comet's fragments are "tails"... [DOC] [TLE] Meteoroid - Wikipedia [PAR] A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space. Meteoroids are 
significantly smaller than asteroids, and range in size from small grains to 1 meter
-wide objects. Objects smaller than this are classified as micrometeoroids or 
space dust. Most are fragments from comets or asteroids, whereas others are 
collision ..... The left-over debris is called meteoric dust or just meteor dust. [DOC] [TLE] Comets, Asteroids, Meteorites and Impacts [PAR] What's the difference between meteor, meteoroid and meteorite? ... Some of the 
orbits aren't even elliptical - the comets just do one passage in toward the ... 
These include the gas tail (also called the ion tail), which is made up of material 
.... passage by the Sun it looses more and more of its ice, leaving behind the dark 
dirt. [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about ASTRONOMY - StudyStack [PAR] MOST OF THE METEORS IN A METEOR SHOWER ARE DEBRIS LEFT BEHIND 
BY ONE OF THESE TAILED BODIES, COMETS. IN 1966 VENERA 3 BECAME... [DOC] [TLE] Meteor and Meteorite - body, used, Earth, system, air, surface [PAR] Meteors, also known as "shooting stars," are fragments of extraterrestrial material 
or, more often, small particles of dust left behind by a comet's tail. [DOC] [TLE] Kid's Cosmos: Explore Asteroids, Meteors and Comets [PAR] Asteroids are made of rocky and/or iron-nickel material and most are found in an 
... The comet Hale-Bopp pictured at left is an example of the large tails comets 
can have. ... cause a long tail of vaporized gases, dust and debris to flow behind 
them. ... These meteor showers can have over 100 meteors an hour and be quite
... [DOC] [TLE] Meteorites - Astronomy For Kids - KidsAstronomy.com [PAR] The point in the sky where a meteor shower originates is called the radiant point. 
... Comets and asteroids are leftover debris from the when the planets were ... 
through the tail of a comet that has been left behind after one of these icy and ... 
The best meteor shower is the Perseids - not just because it has the most 
meteors... [DOC] [TLE] Meteor Showers - Skyscrapers, Inc. [PAR] An overview of the major meteor showers that can be observed throughout the 
year ... These sky streaks, which most folks call shooting stars, are leftover 
material ... that intercept the Earth's orbit, meteor showers are the debris left 
behind by comets. ... As the comet continues its journey around the Sun, particles 
in the tail are... [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 15 (5276.0K) [PAR] one more noticeable than the rest, when it had completed ... duced when a piece 
of interplanetary debris moves rapidly through the .... a meteor shower in which at 
least 100,000 meteors per hour could be ..... Finally, these bodies must have 
orbits that carry them into ..... The dust tail, on the left, is yellow and broader than 
the. [DOC] [TLE] Quickie Questions - Other Solar System Stuff - Asteroids/Meteors ... [PAR] These tails can sometimes be millions of miles long. ... A comet could atracted by 
the Sun or any other celestial body and hit their surface and destroy. ... More than 
100,000 asteroids lie in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. These .... Meteors are

Question: Most of the meteors in a meteor shower are debris left behind by one of these tailed bodies
Answer: a comet