Space Junk
I have an icy core and grow a tail as I approach the sun
What is a meteor?
I rotate on my side and I'm very cold.
What is Neptune?
I am the gas that young stars are made of.
What is Hydrogen?
When you can't see any light on me, I am in this phase.
What is the New moon?
I'm a massive collection of stars and planetary material.
What is a galaxy?
Before I enter the earth's atmosphere and burn up, I am this.
What is a meteoroid?
Even though I am not the closest planet to the sun, I am the hottest.
What is Venus?
If I am not a very massive star I will end my life as a cold remnant called this.
What is a white dwarf?
When I am full or new, I cause these tides.
What are spring tides?
Distances in space are so vast they are measured with this unit.
What is a light year?
When a "shooting star" hits the earth and we can recover it, we call it this.
What is a meteorite?
Once upon a time there was water on my surface and I may have supported life but today I am barren.
What is Mars?
Large clouds of dust and gas from which stars form.
What is a nebula.
The name we give the moons between the first quarter and the full moon.
What is a waxing gibbous?
The number of moons that Mars has.
What is the number two?
Massive rocks that form a zone or belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
The largest Jovian Planet.
What is Jupiter.
The type of nuclear reaction that is happening at a main sequence star's core.
What is nuclear fusion.
The name we give the moons between the last quarter and the new moon.
What is a waning crescent?
The name we give to the inner planets.
What are terrestrial planets?
This man made "space junk" eventually re-enters our atmosphere and sometimes crashes to earth's surface.
What are satellites?
Once considered a planet, this object's shape is too irregular to be considered planet worthy.
What is Pluito?
When a star is massive enough to fuse iron at the end of its "life" it will collapse then "explode" in a fantastically bright event.
What is a super nova?
The reason the surface of the moon has more craters than earth.
What is the lack of an atmosphere?
The name that we give to the outer planets.
What are the Jovian planets?