{"id":967,"date":"2013-03-04T18:59:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T02:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/?p=967"},"modified":"2013-03-09T03:17:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T11:17:53","slug":"whats-that-space-rock-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s that Space Rock called?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you confused about what to call a space rock? After reading this you will not be.<\/p>\n<p>Comet is a chunk of ice and rock which comes from outside our solar system. It usually has a tail which contains water vapor and dust particles that are formed as the ice surrounding the rock melts when the comet approaches the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Asteroids are chunky pieces of rock which are in orbit around the sun in between the planets Mars and Jupiter. They are believed to be the remnants of a planet that exploded. Sometimes an asteroid may bounce off another asteroid and head towards Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Meteoroid is a rock in space which is larger than a grain of dust and smaller in size than an asteroid. In case it falls through the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere and burns up due to the friction it is called a Meteor. Meteors are also called falling stars due to the streak of light that they cause in the night sky.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorite is a large sized meteor which does not burn up completely in the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere but retains enough mass to actually strike the Earth. These space rocks are used by scientists for <a href=\"http:\/\/ezinearticles.com\/?Rocketry-Experiments-Apologia-Science-Curriculum&amp;id=2341012\">science experiments <\/a>to study composition and learn more about the solar system. Sometimes they contain valuable minerals in concentrated form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you confused about what to call a space rock? After reading this you will not be. Comet is a chunk of ice and rock which comes from outside our solar system. It usually has a tail which contains water vapor and dust particles that are formed as the ice surrounding the rock melts when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscienceprojects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}