Planets
Called the blue planet.
What is Earth?
Friction causes this intruder to burn.
What is a meteor?
The star closest to Earth.
What is the sun?
Has been orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes for nearly 24 years.
What is the ISS?
6 trillion miles
What is a light year?
Titan orbits this planet.
What is Saturn?
Nix, Hydra, and Charon
What are three of Pluto's moons?
Causes planets to move faster
What is being closer to the star (our sun) they are orbiting?
The speed at which the ISS travels.
What is 5 miles per second?
These are two reasons optical telescopes work better in space.
What is it is darker and there is no weather interference?
Triton orbits this planet.
What is Neptune?
Ceres, Eris, Makemake, and Haumea
What are some of the dwarf planets?
Classification of our Sun on the H-R Diagram.
What is a main sequence star?
The distance from the Earth's surface needed to reach the ISS.
What is approximately 254 miles?
It is for this reason that Pluto is no longer a planet.
What is Pluto has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit?
Made of ice and gas with thick atmospheres of hydrogen and helium.
What are the outer planets.
This orbits around planets, are rocky or icy and are usually round.
What are moons?
This classification of a star will end up as a black hole.
What is Super Red Giant?
(Could also be a Red giant)
This is the unmanned space probe that first visited Mercury.
What is the Mariner 10?
the average distance from Earth to the Sun—about 150 million km. (93 million miles)
What is 1 AU (astronomical unit)?
The three requirements to be classified as a planet.
What are: Must orbit a star, must have a spherical shape, must have cleared away any other objects of a similar size near its orbit?
Located between Mars and Jupiter.
What is the Astroid Belt?
Number of light years between the Sun and Proxima Centauri (the next closest star)
What is 4.2 light years?
Two of our most famous space telescopes.
What are the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes?
Uses radio waves and microwaves to get images from space.
What is a radio telescope?