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These are chunks of rock and metal that orbit between the planets.
What are asteroids?
This is the largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
These are patterns of stars in the sky that, to some people, seem to be in the shape of pictures.
What are constellations?
This is another name for the study of space.
What is astronomy?
What is the sun?
These are mostly made of ice and orbit between the planets.
What are comets?
This planet is most famous for its rings which circle it.
What is Saturn?
These objects produce and give off their own heat and light.
What are stars?
These are the four inner planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
This is the number of planets in our solar system.
These are relatively small and are responsible for the 'shooting stars' we can see in the night sky.
What are meteors?
This planet is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
What is the moon?
These are the four outer planets.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
This is how long (roughly) it takes for light from the Sun to reach the Earth.
What is 8 minutes.
This brand of car is floating in space.
What is Tesla?
This is now called a 'dwarf planet'.
What is Pluto?
What is 24 hours?
These 'local' planets are terrestrial (rocky) planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars.
What is the Milky Way?
This is a body that does not give off light of its own. It reflects light from a sun.
What is a planet?
(Would also accept, 'moon'.)
This planet is called the morning or evening star, because it appears in the sky just after sunset and before sunrise. (It is also, very hot!)
What is Venus?
This is the direction of Earths rotation.
What is from West to East?
This is how to calculate an object's mass.
What is density x volume?