Planet Characteristics
Which planet is the hottest planet
What is Venus
Which is the 3rd planet from the Sun
What is the Earth
The 4 Terrestrial planets have what type of surface
What is a rocky surface
What main factor keeps planets in their orbits
What is the Sun's gravity
How long does it take for the earth to complete one rotation?
24 hours/ 1 day
Which planet is known as the Ringed Planet
What is Saturn
Which is the 6th planet in our Solar System
What is Saturn
What separates the four inner planets and the four outer planets?
Asteroid Belt
Which planet has a rotation that is opposite from all the other planets
What is Venus
Which planet takes the longest time to orbit the sun?
Neptune
Which two planets have a layer of diamond-rain
What are Uranus and Neptune
Why is Venus hotter than Mercury
What is Venus catches and retains the Sun's heat because of its thick atmosphere
What is found after Neptune in the Solar System
What is the Kuiper Belt
How many spacecrafts have flown past Uranus
What is ONE
Which planet has the shortest orbit around the Sun
What is Mercury (88 Earth days)
what is Mars
Uranus is the coldest planet in the Solar System. Is it also the farthest planet from the Sun
What is no. Neptune is the farthest
What are the rings of Saturn made of?
Rocks and dust
What do we call a collection of celestial objects orbiting a star, other than our Solar System.
What is a Planetary System
How is a dwarf planet different than a regular planet?
A dwarf planet hasn't cleared its orbit of dust and debris.
Which planet rotates slower on its axes than it orbits around the Sun which makes one day longer than one year
What is Venus (One day = 243 Earth days. One year = 225 Earth days)
Which planet can be seen with the naked eye because it is the 5th brightest object in the system
What is Saturn
Why do we believe that there is a large 9th planet that has not been discovered yet
What is large objects in the Kuiper belt have oblong orbits indicating that something is pushing away
What did they call an Earth centered model of the Solar System
What is Geocentric
Which planet's orbit was predicted by mathematics long BEFORE we saw it with a telescope
What is Neptune