Tallon
93,000,000 miles
distance of the earth from the sun
hottest of the 8 planets
Venus
Temperature of Venus
860 degrees F
only planet in the known solar system capable of supporting life as we know it
Earth
Planet that rotates on its side
Uranus
innermost 4 planets classification
terrestrial
outermost 4 planets classification
Jovian
planet that rotates around the sun every 90 days
Mercury
% of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy that host planetary systems
15%
Planet that may have been supported life 3.7 billion years ago
Mars
Name of the two ICE giants
Uranus, Neptune
number of miles wide: the Saturn rings
275,000 miles
Largest planet in our solar system
Jupiter
Pluto and Ceres are ______ planets
dwarf
a belt (NAME) of icy debris at the end of our solar system.
OORT
Name the life-giving Star
Our Sun
name the four planets in the Terrestrial classification
Mercury-venus-earth-mars
what planets are the "GAS" giants
Jupiter - Saturn
estimated # of galaxies in the universe
100-200 billion
of the two: Terrestrial or Jovian, which classification basically have few or no moons
Terrestrial
The earth's moon was formed how long ago?
4.5 billion years
rocket that carried the "HUBBLE" telescope into orbit in space
discovery
all planets orbit the sun in the same_______
direction
discovered by DR. Wegener
pangaea
Ceres (dwarf planet), is located in the _________belt
Asteroid belt