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Mostly rock, some traces of metal, irregularly shaped and orbits the sun.
What is an asteroid?
100
The planets in order from the closest to the sun to furthest away.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
100
They all have rings.
What are the outer planets?
100

Bodies of ice and rock that orbit the sun in long elliptical orbits.

What is a comet?

100

What we see when the earth passes through where a comet used to be.

What is a meteor shower?

200

These planets are are rocky and small.

What are the inner planets?

200
Books often show pictures of the planets, but something is wrong.
What is the distance that the planets are apart?
200

The sun is this type of celestial object.

What is star?

200
The largest asteroid.

What is Ceres?

200

Where long period comets come from.

What is the Oort cloud?

300

These planets are very large and made of gases.

What are the outer planets?

300
Bits of rock and dust burning up in the atmosphere.

What is a meteor?

300

1% of our solar system.

What are the planets and the minor members?

300

Made by the impact of meteorites or asteroids.

What is an impact crater?

300

Where short period comets come from.

What is the Kuiper belt?

400

You would see the most moons if you lived on this planet.

What is what you would see if you lived on Jupiter?

400
When this celestial object is on the surface of Earth, it is named something different than when it is in space or shooting through the atmosphere.
What is a meteorite?
400

The two forces that hold the planets in their orbits around the sun.

What are gravity and inertia?

400

Three types of asteroids?

What is Silicate, Carbon and Iron-nickel?

400

This part of our solar system was never was a planet.

What is the asteroid belt?

500

It is the closest planet to the sun in the solar system.

What is Mercury?

500

A smaller rocky, irregularly shaped object in our solar system that is not an asteroid.

What is a meteoroid?

500
Objects that have more mass also have more of this.
What is gravity?
500

Three types of meteorites.

What is stony, iron and stony-iron?

500

99% of our solar system's mass.

What is the sun?

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