Kepler
According to Kepler, planets orbit the sun in this shape.
What is an ellipse.
The source of the sun's energy.
What is nuclear fusion?
Scientists have not found this on Venus.
What is a magnetic field?
The names of the Jovian planets.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
Dwarf planet that was once considered the ninth planet in our solar system.
What is Pluto?
Kepler's law that explains a planet's speed as it moves around the sun.
What is Kepler's 2nd Law?
The principal means of energy transfer inside the sun.
What is radiation?
This erodes Mars’ atmosphere and contributes to its loss of water.
What are solar winds?
He discovered Uranus.
Who is Friederich Herschel?
This is located between Mars and Jupiter.
What is the asteroid belt?
Kepler's Third Law
What is the Harmonic Law?
The layer of the sun where solar flares and eruptions come from.
What is the chromosphere?
The height of Olympus moons.
What are 15 miles high?
Planet whose mass is 318 times the mass of the Earth.
What is Jupiter?
He calculated the orbits of several comets.
Who is Edmund Halley?
Kepler worked for this astronomer.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
A dramatic effect of the solar wind that you can see near the Earth’s poles.
What are auroras?
Called "the morning and evening star".
What is Venus?
This planet is tilted almost 90 degrees.
What is Uranus?
The time that it takes for short-period comets to complete one orbit.
What is less than 200 years?
This disease almost cost Kepler his life.
What is smallpox?
This can heat solar material to tens of millions of degrees in just a few seconds.
What are solar flares?
The way that Venus and Uranus rotates.
What is a clockwise fashion?
This planet has winds that are nearly 5 times faster than the winds on Jupiter.
What is Neptune?
An interplanetary chunk of matter that has struck a planet or a moon.
What is a meteorite?