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planets
vocab
comets
stars
asteroids
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7th planet from the sun
What is Uranus?
100
To run into or crash into
What is collide?
100
The direction of a comets tail
What is away from the sun?
100
The name of our sun
What is Sol?
100
rock and metal broken away from planets
What is an asteriod?
200
The smallest planet in the solar system
What is Mercury?
200
A system of planets, stars, and moons orbiting around a sun.
What is a galaxy?
200
The places where comets come from
What is the Kuiper belt and the Oort Cloud?
200
The biggest star we know
What is Vy Canis Majoris? (Red HyperGiant)
200
the path an asteriod takes
What is an ellipse?
300
The brightest planet in the night sky
What is Venus?
300
Small pieces of rock or minerals that have broken off a larger asteroids.
What is a Meteor?
300
This person proposed the dirty snowball theory
Who is Fred Whipple?
300
The mass of a star determines what
What is a stars life span?
300
located in between mars and juptier
What is the asteriod belt?
400
The planet that is closest to Earth in size
What is Venus?
400
A large body in space made of rock, ice, and frozen gas.
What is a comet?
400
The first person to predict the return of a comet
Who is Edmund Halley?
400
The amount of stars in the universe
What is 100 billion stars?
400
rocks, craters and other asteriods
What is what an astriod is made out of?
500
Phobos and Deimos are moons of what planet
What is Mars?
500
A large body in space made of rock and minerals.
What is an asteroid?
500
This next comet will return in 2061.
What is Halley's comet?
500
The closest star to us next to the sun
What is Proxima Centauri?
500
Ceres, in 1801, is the largest asteroid
What is the first asteroid to be discovered?