PLANETS
He taught us how to use telescopes to study the planets and stars.
Who is Galileo?
The latin word for moon
What is Luna?
The rock that orbits the sun in our solar system.
What is an asteroid?
It rotates around the sun
What is the earth?
The names of of the recognized dwarf planets.
What is Ceres, Pluto, Eris, Makemake, and Haumea.
The planet with perfect tilt and rotation
What is Earth?
A spacesuit is necessary because there is less of this.
What is gravity?
We call these shooting stars.
What are meteors?
They are little dark spots on the sun
What are sunspots?
They have enough of this to assume a nearly round shape.
What is mass?
The hottest planet in the solar system
What is Venus?
This is how long it takes the moon to revolve around the earth.
What is 28 days?
Another name for this rock is "dirty snowball"
What is a comet?
92,956,050
What is the number of miles earth is from the sun?
A belt of icy objects orbiting the sun past Neptune
What is Kuiper's belt?
Planets that are inside the asteroid belt.
What are the inner planets?
It causes our ocean tides
What is the moon's gravity?
This comet appears every 76 years.
What is Halley's comet?
The moon gets right in the path between earth and the sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
The dwarf planet that has 5 moons
What is Pluto?
The hypothesis that there was once a planet between Mars and Jupiter.
What is the "Exploded Planet Hypothesis"?
The total number of men that have walked on the moom
What is 12?
These are pieces of Mars found on earth.
What are Maritian meteorites?
They called the sun sol, that is why our system of planets is called the solar system.
Who are the Romans?
The Dwarf planet that rotates in the same direction as we do on earth.
What is Haumea?