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Planets
Meteors, Meteorites,and Meteoroids
Vocabulary
Asteroids, Comets and Stars
Astronomer
100
Mercury
What is the smallest planet?
100
Most are made of silicon,oxygen,and heavier metals,like nickel and iron.
What is a meteoroid?
100
An oval shape,moving from one point to another.
What is an elipse?
100
Most asteroids are found orbiting in the
What is the asteroid belt?
100
"The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons".
Who is Edwin Powel Hubble's words?
200
Mercury,Venus,Earth, and Mars
What is the inner planets?
200
The earth's atmosphere experiences a million of these everyday.
What is meteors?
200
A gravitational field so intense no matter or radiation can escape.
What is a black hole?
200
They are composed mostly of ice,rock,gas,and dust.
What is a comet?
200
"My goal is simple,it is a complete understanding of the universe,why it is the way it is and why it exists at all".
What is Steve Hawling?
300
Jupiter,Saturn,Neptune,Uranus,and Pluto
What is the outer planets?
300
A meteoroid that survives falling through the Earth's atomospheremand colliding with the Earth's surface is known as
What is a meteorite?
300
O group of stars forming a recognizable pattern.
What is a constellation?
300
These stars are the shortest to live.
What is massive stars?
300
Johann Galle,Urban Le Verrer,and John Adams all discovered what planet.
What is Neptune?
400
67 moons
What is Jupiter's number of moons?
400
They travel through the solar system at a speed of around 26 miles per second
What is the fastest meteoroid?
400
The galaxy that contains our solar system.
What is the Milky Way?
400
The current known amount of asteroids in our solar system.
What is over 600,000
400
The first to coined the word asteroid in 1802.
Who is William Hershal the first?
500
4,498,396,441
What is the distance of Neptune from the sun?
500
When many meteors occurred in a close time frame in the same part of the sky
What is a meteor shower?
500
Occurs when the moon is behind the Earth.
What is a lunar eclipse?
500
The first asteroid discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801.
What is ceres?
500
The British astronomer who discovered pulsars.
Who is Jocelyn Bell Burrell?