Little Bit of Rock

Hey baby I'm a shooting star—A blazing racing tracer in the sky

I'm heading for Earth's surface -- 50,000 miles an hourGonna hear my sudden impact gonna feel my powerCatch you later when I crater—I'm just a Little Bit of Rock!

Small Bodies we're the MeteorsThere's one of us who wiped out all the dinosaursWe're icy bits of comet, we're iron and we're rockStreaking through the sky, we're an atmospheric shock

Hey baby I'm a rock in spaceA jumbled tumbling body in the sky

Between Jupiter and Mars I make my presence feltIn a band of rocky relics called the Asteroid BeltPallas, Ceres, Vesta --And many thousand bits of rock

Small Bodies we’re the asteroids, a Mess of planetesimals out swinging in the voidsChunks of past collisions or a tiny world unformedWatch out for the earth-crossers, you have been warned!

Hey baby I'm a hunk sublime, An icy dirty snowball in the skyGases streaming from my nucleus give a night-time treatI'm a drop-out from the Oort Cloud with a regular beat

Eccentric in my orbit through the solar planePass too close to sunward and I'll never be the same

Small Bodies we're the Comets, hon'Tails forever trailing out away from the SunHyakutake, Halley, and a bit of Hale-Bopp

SL9 hit Jupiter that show was not a flop!

Rocking round the System we're Small Bodies, rightWe're Asteroids and Comets and we're difficult to sightIf we plunge into your atmosphere we set the skies alightThen we're Meteors and fireballs, you'll glimpse us in the night...

Just a Little Bit of Rock!