Planets
Planets 2
Sun
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The planet closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
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Once known as the ninth planet in the solar system.
What is Pluto?
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The portion of the sun that can be seen in pictures.
What is the photosphere?
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The layer of the sun's atmosphere that looks like a halo during an eclipse.
What is the corona?
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Vince Carter (Atlanta Hawks) played basketball at this Florida High School prior to playing basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels, and then being drafted into the NBA.

What is Mainland High School?

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The second largest planet.
What is Saturn.
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Scientists think the solar system was form about this long ago.
What is 4.6 billion years ago?
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Areas of gas on the sun's surface that are cooler than the gases around them.
What is sunspots?
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Object that orbits the sun, is round, and has cleared the area of its orbit.
What is a planet?
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Peyton Manning (former Indianapolis Colts QB) just broke his record for all time leading touchdowns throwing lucky number 509 on Sunday night.
Who is Brett Favre?
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The two planets with no moons.
What is Mercury and Venus.
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About 99.85% of the mass of the solar system is contained with this.
What is the sun.
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Huge loops of gas that link different parts of sunspot regions.
What are prominences?
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The solar system began to form as this pulled rock, ice, and gas together.
What is gravity?
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The number of days until Christmas.

What is 268 days?

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Scientists use this to measure distances within the solar system.
What is an Astronomical Unit?
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Object that orbits the sun, is spherical, but has not cleared the area of its orbit.
What is a dwarf planet?
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About 1/4 of the sun mass is made of the helium. The other 3/4 is made of this.
What is hydrogen?
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An object that orbits a planet.
What is a satellite?
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What musician/actress replaced Blake Shelton as a judge on the TV show The Voice.

Who is Reba McEntire?

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The eight planets and the asteroid belt in order from the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Asteroid Belt, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
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An astronomical unit (AU) equals the average distance between these two objects in the solar system.
What is the sun and earth?
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Eruptions that occur when the loops in sunspot regions suddenly connect.
What is a solar flare?
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The two planets with the largest gap between them.
What is Uranus and Neptune?
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The fastest land animal with a recorded speed of 60-75 mph.
What is a cheetah?
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