Terminology
It is made up of the sun and it's family of 8 planets.
What is the Solar System?
This is the centre of the Solar System. The planets revolve around it.
What is the Sun?
This Planet is called the morning or evening star, because it appears in the sky just after sunset and before sunrise.
What is Venus?
These objects produce and give off their own heat and light.
What are Stars?
This is how long it takes the moon to circle earth.
What is 27 days.
These are chunks of rock and metal that orbit between the planets.
What are Asteroids?
This Planet is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
This planet is fifth from the sun. It is the largest planet and is best known of its beautiful colours and its "Great Red Spot."
What is Jupiter?
These have bright heads and long, shining tails. They shine partly because of light absorbed and re-radiated from the sun and partly because of the reflected sunlight.
What are comets?
This is how long it takes the Earth to circle the Sun.
What is 365.25 days?
These are loose collections of rocks and frozen gases that orbit between the planets.
What are comets?
This body travels around the Earth. It is known as Earth's satellite.
What is the moon?
This planet is seventh from the sun. Unlike the other planets, this planet lies on it's side. It is greenish in colour and has nine faint rings with five moons orbiting the planet.
What is Uranus?
These are patterns of stars in the sky that, to some people, seem to be in the shapes of pictures.
What are constellations?
This is the scientific name for the first day of spring and fall.
What is the Equinox.
This is a body that does not give off light of its own. It reflects light of the sun.
What is a planet?
This former planet is now called a "dwarf planet."
What is Pluto.
This planet is sixth from the sun. It is best known for the beautiful system of rings that circle the planet.
What is Saturn?
This is the galaxy that we live in.
What is the Milky Way?
This is the scientific name for the first day of summer and winter.
What is the summer and winter Solstice?
This is another name for the study of space.,
What is astronomy?
A torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars.
What is the Asteroid Belt
This Red Planet is named after the Roman God of War.
What is Mars?
This planet is the eights from the sun and can only be seen through a telescope. Little is known about this distant planet.
What is Neptune?
Between September 29th 2024 and November 25th 2024 how many moons will the Earth have?
What is 2? Between Sept '24 and Nov '24 2024 PT5, a near-Earth asteroid and is 11 meters in diameter — about the same as two giraffes, will be temporarily caught in Earth's orbit.