Astronomy 101
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos is a mnemonic for.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
When one object travels in a circle around another object (also called orbiting).
What is Revolve?
The spinning of a planet that causes day and night.
What is Rotating?
When the Sun is hidden behind the Moon.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
True or False: Venus and Mercury are both gaseous planets.
What is false?
The galaxy we live in.
What is the Milky Way?
The number of Earth days it takes Mercury to revolve around the Sun.
What is 88?
The planet that takes longer to rotate that it does to revolve.
What is Venus?
What is a basketball?
That only planet that rotates clockwise.
What is Venus?
An invisible force that pulls objects towards each other.
What is Gravity?
The number of Earth days it takes Venus to revolve around the Sun.
What is 225?
The number of Earth days it takes for Venus to rotate.
What is 243?
How many miles we are away from the Sun.
What is 92,956,050? or What is 93,000,000?
A planet that is solid or "Earth like".
What is terrestrial?
Then Moon is not an artificial satellite, it's a ___________ ___________.
What is a natural satellite?
Who your life should revolve around.
The number of Earth days it takes Mercury to rotate.
What is 59?
Dark spots on the Sun that are cooler than the rest of the Sun.
What are sunspots?
How scientists know what Venus looks like.
What is radar?
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
What is Romans 1:20?
An object in space that travels in circles around another object.
True or False: The sun rotates
The planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids are all natural ____________ of the sun.
Rock that is so hot it has melted, like butter melts in pot on the stove.
What is lava?