Space Vocab
A large natural object that orbits around a planet, some are covered with ice and craters
Moon
Tool used to discover the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud in Space
Telescope
The planets in our Solar System orbit around it.
The Sun
The force that pulls objects with mass toward each other.
Gravity
A distant cloud of icy objects surrounding the solar system
Oort Cloud
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purple
A frozen remnant of the solar system's formation, made of dust, rock, and ice that has an orbit
Comet
A region beyond Neptune containing icy objects and dwarf planets
The Kuiper Belt
Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
Outer Planets
How long it takes for a planet to circle around the sun
Orbit
A small piece of space debris that enters Earth's atmosphere and burns up, creating a streak of light in the sky. AKA shooting star
Meteor
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Ringo
A small, rocky and/or metallic object that has an orbit through the solar system.
Asteroid
A region of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter.
Asteroid Belt
The name of the Galaxy we live in
Milky Way
An object would weight _______ on the moon.
Less
A doughnut-shaped region of icy bodies that orbits the sun beyond Neptune
Kuiper Belt
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The spinning of a planet or moon on its axis
Rotation
Meteorites around found on
Planet in our solar system that can support life
Earth
Objects that have more _________ have more gravitational pull
Mass
The orbital movement of one object around another
Revolution
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Celsius
And I'm _________ and I will not be forgotten! A round object orbiting the Sun that has not cleared its orbit
Pluto; Dwarf Planet
It orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit that is at an angle relative to the orbital paths of the planets. The speed varies depending on its distance from the sun.
Comet
These are smaller, rocky and denser
Inner Planets
Two main factors of Gravitational Force
Mass and Distance
The specific orbital region around a star where a planet's surface temperature is just right to maintain liquid water
The habitable zone
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16