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The names of the four terrestrial planets
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
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Largest Jovian planet
What is Jupiter
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A ball of ice and dust, probably remaining from the formation of the solar system, that orbits the Sun
What is a COMET
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The diameter of the Moon
What is 2,160 miles
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According to nebular hypothesis the solar system formed this many years ago
What is 4.5 BILLION
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Terrestrial planets are also known as this
What is INNER PLANET
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The speed of rotation for Jovian planets
What is FAST ROTATION
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The idea that our solar system developed from a spinning cloud of gas and dust
What is NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS
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Jupiter's largest moon
What is Ganymede
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Comets are believed to originate here
What is the OORT CLOUD
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The speed of rotation of terrestrial planets
What is SLOW
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The unique surface of Jovian planets
What is NO SOLID SURFACE
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A small body in which planets originated in the early stages of the development in the solar system
What is a PLANETESIMAL
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Neptune's largest moon
What is Triton
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The region that surrounds and extends just beyond the orbit of Neptune where several dwarf planets reside
What is KUIPER BELT
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Unlike Jovian planets, terrestrial planets lack this feature
What are RINGS
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Every Jovian planet has this
What are RINGS
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The solid part of a comet composed of ices and dust
What is a NUCLEUS
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The planet that the moon Europa orbits
What is Jupiter
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The three largest dwarf planets
What are PLUTO, ERIS, and CERES
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The terrestrial planet Mars has a red hue because of this
What is IRON OXIDE
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The Jovian planet with a sideways rotation
What is Uranus
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Any body that orbits the Sun and has enough mass to form a spherical shape, and has cleared its immediate neighborhood of all other objects
What is a PLANET
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Saturn's moon with a diameter of 3,200 miles
What is Titan
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The ring between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter that orbits the Sun and contains the dwarf planet Ceres
What is the ASTEROID BELT