Inner Planets
The hottest planet in the Solar System
What is Venus?
Outer planets are made from materials that are usually ____ on Earth
What are gases?
This object was demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006
What is Pluto?
Planets orbits are not circular,but _________
What are elliptical?
Ice, dust and gases that leave a tail as they approach the Sun
What is a comet?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
What is NASA?
This is supported on Earth due to liquid water
What is life?
Outer planets are made from materials that are usually ____ on Earth
What is Saturn?
The largest moon of Pluto
What is Charon?
This planet has the fastest period of rotation or "day" of 9.9 hours
What is Jupiter?
Thousands of these orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter
What are asteroids?
The rover Curiosity is sending data back from this planet
What is Mars?
Mars is red due to this chemical compound
What is Iron oxide?
This centuries old storm on Jupiter is twice the size of Earth
What is the Great Red Spot?
The smallest dwarf planet and is located in the Asteroid Belt
What is Ceres?
The time it takes an object to travel once around the Sun
What is Period of Revolution?
Shooting stars
What are meteors?
This spacecraft was the only to view the outer planets of Uranus and Neptune
What is Voyager 2?
This planet has a period of revolution of 88 days
What is Mercury?
This planet axis is so tilted that it spins like a rolling ball
This planet axis is so tilted that it spins like a rolling ball
The largest dwarf planet and 3x farther from the Sun than Pluto
What is Eris?
The only planet to spin backwards
What is Venus?
When a meteroid survives it fall to Earth it is called a____
What is a meteorite?
The huge telescope launched in 1990, which is orbiting the Earth
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
The largest know volcano in the solar system
What is Olympus Mons?
Was the first planet to be discovered by mathematical predictions (1846)
What is Neptune?
Area of the solar system containing most dwarf planets and comets
What is the Kuiper Belt?
An ellipse contain two fixed points called
What are foci?
The location of millions of comets in our solar system
What is the Oort cloud?
This astronomer discovered the first four moons of Jupiter
Who is Galileo