Sun and Inner Planets
What is the Sun?
What is Jupiter?
The fifth planet from the Sun and the biggest planet in the solar system.
True or false? Pluto used to be the ninth planet from the Sun.
True.
False.
What are two dwarf-planet-like asteroids in the asteroid belt? Hint: Beside Ceres.
Vesta and Juno.
What is Mercury?
The first planet from the Sun.
What is Saturn?
The sixth planet from the Sun and the ringed planet.
What is Ceres classified as?
A dwarf planet and an asteroid.
What is the planet with the most Moons?
Saturn (82). The biggest is Titan.
What is the comet that flies by Earth every 75 to 76 years?
Haley's Comet.
What is Venus?
The second planet from the Sun.
The seventh planet from the Sun. It is lying on its side.
What is the fastest rotating dwarf planet in the solar system? Hint: It is oval shaped, and it has rings, but not as amazing as Saturn's.
Haumea.
What are the Galilean Moons of Jupiter.
Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
What is the comet that won't fly by Earth in another 2,500 years?
Comet Hale-Bopp.
What is Earth?
The third planet from the Sun. It is the only planet as we know it to support life.
What is Neptune?
The eighth and outermost planet from the Sun. It is the windiest planet in the solar system.
What dwarf planet is often confused with Haumea?
Makemake.
Do Mercury and Venus have Moons?
No.
What is the meteor impact cycle?
(1)Meteoroid, (2)Meteor, (3)Meteorite
What is Mars?
The fourth planet from the Sun.
BONUS: How many planets are in the solar system?
8.
What is the dwarf planet going into the Kuiper Belt and beyond, almost as big as Pluto, and the coldest dwarf planet that has a grayish white color.
Eris.
How many moons does Mars have?
2. Phobos and Deimos.
What comet crashed into Jupiter in 1994?
Shoe Maker Levy 9.