Miscellaneous
How big is the Sun?
865,000 miles in Diameter
What is the composition of a meteorite?
Iron, nickel, and metal
What is is the movement of the inner planets?
Mercury - 88 days Venus - 225 days Earth - 365 days Mars - 687 days
What is the movement of the outer planets?
Jupiter - 12 years Saturn - 29 years Uranus - 84 years Neptune - 165 years
What is the the distance from the sun?
Ceres - 2.77 AU Pluto - 39.5 AU Haumea - 43.19 AU Makemake - 45.48 AU Eris - 67.84 AU
What is the composition of the Sun?
Gases such as Hydrogen and Helium
What is the composition of a Asteroid?
Chondrite, stony, metallic nickel-iron
What are the names of the moons of the inner planets?
Earth: Moon (Luna)
Mars: Phobos and Deimos
What are the names of the moons of outer planets?
Jupiter - Ganymede, Io, ect (95) Saturn - Titan, Enceladus, ect (274) Uranus - Miranda, ariel, ect (28) Neptune - Triton, Despina, ect (16)
What are the names of a few of the dwarf planets?
Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, Eris (ect..)
What star is the Sun?
G2 V (Yellow dwarf main-sequence star)
What is the size and orbit of a Meteorite?
Size: dust grains - small asteroids
Orbit: around the sun and planets
What are the names and compositions of the inner planets?
The rocky planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
Rock, Metallic Core, CO2, and Iron
What are the names and compositions of the outer planets?
The gas giants: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
Gas - Hydrogen, Helium and Methane
What is the composition of the dwarf planets?
Methan, Nitrogen, minerals, mantel of water ice and rock.
How is everything in the Galaxy held together?
Gravity holds up the object in the galaxies.
What is the size and orbit of a Asteroid?
Size: 33 feet - 329 miles
Orbit: around the sun between Mars and Jupiter (Main Asteroid belt)
What are the sizes of the inner planets in miles?
Mercury - 3,032 Venus - 7521 Earth - 7,926 Mars- 4,219
What are the sizes of the outer planets in miles?
Jupiter - 88,695 Saturn - 74,897 Uranus - 31,763 Neptune - 30,775
What are the diameter of the dwarf planets in miles?
Pluto - 1,477 Eris - 1445 Haumea - 1,080 Makemake - 891 Ceres - 599
What patterns can be found in our Solar System and why?
The path of the Sun, stars, and moon phases are caused by the position of Earth to the moon and Sun.
What is the size, composition, and orbit of a comet.
Comets can range from less than 750 meters to 20 kilometers made out of dust and ice that orbit the sun.
What is the relation of the inner planets to the Sun in miles?
Mercury - 29 million Venus - 67 million Earth - 92 million Mars - 142 million
What is the relation of the outer planets to the Sun in miles?
Jupiter - 484 million Saturn - 886 million Uranus - 1.8 billion Neptune - 2.8 billion
Why is a dwarf planet not a planet?
To be a planet it must orbit the host star, be pretty round, and big enough that it is cleared of its orbit of debris from gravity.