Solar System 2
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- What is a natural or artificial body that orbits another body?
- Satellite
- Too small for its gravity to hold onto an atmosphere or a moon
- Mercury
- Chunks of ice and rock that travel around the sun in a variety of orbits
- Comets
- What are sometimes called minor planets?
- Asteroids
- Has atmosphere, oceans, and green house effect that supports life
- Earth
- Has a dense hot atmosphere containing carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid
- Venus
- Has white clouds of methane ice and a moon nicknamed "cantaloupe moon"
- Neptune
- Has a moon nearly half its size, and it is called the "double planet"
- Pluto
- Has mountains, deserts, volcanoes, canyons,and a thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide
- Mars
- It is made up of the dust, gas particles, and rocks thrown off by comets
- Meteoroids
- What is a meteor that PLUNGES to the EARTH in one piece?
- Meteorite
- Distance between the Earth and sun
- astronomical unit
- Which planet is blue-green?
- Uranus
- Why are asteroids considered to be parts of a planet?
- The force of Jupiter's gravity may have pulled the tiny planet apart
- What are the inner planets made up of?
- rock
- Has a giant red spot that may be a huge storm?
- Jupiter
- Which planet can float of water?
- Saturn
- Small rocky bodies that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
- asteriods
- What are the outer planets made up of?
- Gas