Terrestrial Planets
Planet that orbits in 88 days
What is Mercury
The largest of the gas giant planets
What is Jupiter?
The furthest away planet
What is Neptune?
What criteria did Pluto fail, causing it's reclassification as a dwarf planet?
What is "must clear the area around the orbit"?
The only two planets who do not have moons
All surface features are named after women/female characters
What is Venus?
The largest moon in the solar system
What is Ganymede?
Rotates at 98 degrees due to a large impact early on
What is Uranus
Pluto's water ice/rock composition resembles _____ of Neptune and Uranus.
What are moons?
Location relative to the Sun where material freezes out into a solid form
What is the frost line
Has two captured asteroid moons
What is Mars?
Makes up the majority of a gas giant interior
Causes the blue color of Uranus and Neptune
What is methane
PLuto is name partially in honor of this scientists, who also publicized the idea of Mars having irrigation canals in the late 19th century.
Who is Percival Lowell
This planet had a temporary ring structure after the giant moon forming impact before the material coalesced
What is the Earth
Only terrestrial planet not thought to have water in the past
What is Mercury?
Makes up the interior of Ganymede
What is high pressure ices?
Process used to discover Uranus's rings
What is stellar occultation
Nearly all dwarf planets are also called _______ objects, referring to this sizable area of the solar system
Trans Neptunian
The only planet that would float in a bathtub
What is Saturn
The surface pressure of Venus
What is 92 bars
Makes up the clouds on Jupiter
What is ammonia
The only spacecraft to visit the ice giant planets
What is Voyager 2
The largest of Pluto's 5 moons
A major astrobiological controveristy in the 1990s based on this antarctic meteorite.
What is the Allan Hills Meteorite?