Earth's Movement
The time is takes for one earth rotation
24 hours - 1 day
Earth's surface is mostly made of
Water
The hottest planet
Venus
a small rocky body orbiting the Sun
asteroid
5 different objects found in our solar system
Sun, Planets, Satellites (moons), Comets, Asteroids, Dwarf Planets
Imaginary line around which an object spins
Axis
The definition of a satellite
An object orbiting the Earth or another planet.
The 8 planets in order from closest to farthest from the sun
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Largest known asteroid
Ceres
Famous obect that orbits past earth every 76 years
Halley's Comet
Earth complete this every 365 days
Revolution
23.5 degrees
Number of planets with rings
4 - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Origin place of most asteroids
Asteroid Belt
A shooting star is really
A meteor
What is the Earth's only natural satellite?
The four outer planets.
Jovian planets
comets are made of
Ice and dust
The cause for a meteor shower
meteoroids entering Earth’s atmosphere and vaporizing
Earth's titled axis, amount of time exposed to sun each day, intensity of sun's energy on planet
Time is takes Mercury to orbit the sun
88 days
A meteoroid forms when
When asteroids collide and a small piece breaks off the asteroid
The sun makes up for ____% of mass in our solar system
99.8%