Characteristics of Planets
Revolves around this stellar object.
What is the sun?
This is the fastest revolving planet.
What is Mercury?
Jovian planets are sometimes called...
What is "gas giants"?
If one of these natural satellites were large enough, it could be considered a SSSB.
What is a moon?
This is how you refer to planets that are farther from the sun than the earth.
What is superior?
Rotates on its...
What is axis?
This is the brightest of all planets.
What is Venus?
This is the largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
What is another name for a meteor?
What is a "Shooting Star"?
The scientific study of planets, stars, and the heavenly bodies.
What is astronomy?
Orbits in this kind of path.
What is an elliptical?
This is the 3rd planet from the sun.
What is Earth?
What is the 7th planet from the sun and has rings? It is not very likely to be studied by an astrogeologist.
What is Uranus?
What is a meteoroid?
Some people study this, believing that the stars and stellar objects affect people and events on Earth. They make predictions based on the movements and patterns of these heavenly bodies.
What is astrology?
Most are named after these.
What are Roman deities?
This is 1.00 AU from the sun.
What is Earth?
It has rings and was predicted to exist before even being discovered.
What is Neptune?
This is what comets are called when they reappear at regular, predictable intervals such as Halley’s comet.
What is periodic comets?
This optical illusion is where it appears a superior planet stops, then moves backward against the stars in the background.
What is retrograde motion?
The total number in our solar system.
What is 8?
It falls under the category of “superior” and “terrestrial”; asteroid belt lies between this planet and Jupiter.
What is Mars?
An asteroid belt lies between this planet and Mars.
What is Jupiter?
Give the location of the nucleus of a comet.
What is in the center of the head (coma) of the comet?
It was predicted to exist before even discovered; it sometimes crosses Neptune's path as it orbits around the sun.
What is Pluto?