Solar System
This is the number of stars in our solar system.
What is one?
The average distance between the Sun & the Earth.
What is an Astronomical Unit?
The law that says for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction force.
What is the 3rd law?
This planet has the fastest orbital velocity.
What is Mercury?
Kepler's 1st law says that planets orbit in this type of shape.
Elliptical
This is the galaxy our solar system is located in.
What is the Milky Way?
The distance light can travel in a vacuum in 1 year of time.
What is a light year?
The law that says for an object, the greater the Net Force applied, the greater the object accelerates.
What is the 2nd law?
This is the largest planet in the Solar System.
What is Jupiter?
As planets are closer to the sun, this happens to their speed.
It increases
What is the Virgo Supercluster?
The unit you would use for measuring distances in our solar system.
What is an astronomical unit?
The term that describes how an object in motion likes to remain in motion.
What is the first law?
This is the planet whose diameter is closest to the Earth's
What is Venus?
What planet takes more time to orbit the sun? Mercury or Neptune?
The name of the cluster our Solar System is part of.
What is the Local Group?
The distance out solar system is located from the center of the galaxy.
What is 27 light years?
The force that holds the Earth's atmosphere close to the Earth, the moon in it's place and the Earth moving around the sun.
What is the Gravitational Force?
This is the location of the Asteroid Belt.
What is between Mars and Jupiter?
The Sun is located at one foci in our elliptical orbit. What is at the other foci?
What is empty space?
The list of the 8 planets in our solar system (in order from the sun).
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
Number of miles of 1 AU
93 million miles
If the Earth suddenly gained a lot of mass, this is how it would this affect the Earth's gravity.
By definition this can clear a path of it's orbit and is spherical in shape.
What is a planet?
If the Sun exerts a gravitational force on the Earth and the Earth exerts a gravitational force on the Sun, which is bigger?
Neither! They are equal in size opposite in direction.