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Planets
Asteroids
Comets
Dwarf Planets
Stars
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What planet is often called the Red Planet?
Mars is often called the red planet
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Where is the main asteroid belt located? In between what two planets?
Mars and Jupiter
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What is a comet usually compared too?
A dirty snowball.
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What is the biggest dwarf planet?
Eris.
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What star is the most important to the Earth?
Soul- (The Sun)
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What is Venus's atmosphere made up of?
carbon dioxide
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What can you find in an asteroid by mining?
Iron and Nickel
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What do comets orbit?
The sun
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What is the smallest Dwarf Planet?
Ceres.
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What are stars made out of?
Warm explosive gas
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How many major planets are in our Solar Systems?
8 planets- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune
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What are they also known as?
They are also known as planetoids or minor planets.
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What is a Comet?
A comet is an icy body that releases gas and dust.
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Dwarf Planets don't orbit the sun, True or False?
False
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Stars start as a nebula- True or False?
True
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Which one is the largest and smallest planet?
Jupiter and Mercury
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What is the difference between an asteroid and a comet?
An asteroid is a smaller rocky object that orbits the Sun, a comet is a chunk of dusty ice
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What is the most famous comet known to man kind?
Halley's Comet If you said shoe maker or Hale Bopp that will also count as 400 points
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Do Dwarf Planets have moons?
Yes indeed.
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What happens when a star gets too old?
It dies.
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Why is Venus considered Earth's twin?
Because of it's size and location
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What are Asteroids?
They are small, airless, rocky worlds revolving around the sun.
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How long are some Comets tails?
They can reach up to 100 million miles long.
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In what century did we consider Pluto a dwarf planet?
The twenty-first century. (2000's)
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What are constellations?
They are imaginary things that poets, farmers, and astronomers have made up over the past 6,000 years (and maybe even more)