Inner Planets
Outer Planets
Measurement in Space
vocabulary
Potluck
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Earth, Venus, Vars, Mercury
What are the names of the inner planets?
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These are the 5 outer planets.
What are Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto and Jupiter?
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This is the distance of an AU in light minutes.
What are 8.3 light minutes?
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This is the word for planet in Greek.
What are wanderers?
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Between venus and mercury which is hotter?
What is Venus?
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The densest inner planet...
What is Earth?
200
These objects make up the Saturn system.
What are Saturn and its moons?
200
This is how far light travels in a minute.
What is 18,000,000 KM?
200
The word Terra.
What is Earth?
200
This is the type of rotation Venus has.
What is retrograde?
300
This landed on Mars in 1997.
What is the Mars Pathfinder?
300
This planet is tilted on its axis 90 degrees.
What is Uranus?
300
This is the definition of an astronomical unit.
What is the distance between the earth and sun?
300
This is the type of rotation the Earth has.
What is prograde rotation?
300
This was launched by NASA in 2003.
What is the Twin Rover mission to Mars?
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What is 12,756 KM?
What is the diameter of Earth?
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This is the storm system on Jupiter that is three times the diameter of Earth.
What is the great Red Spot?
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How far is an AU in kilometers?
What is 150 million KM? 150,000,000
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The time it taken an object to rotate once on its axis.
What is a period of rotation?
400
From -13C to -77C
What are the temperatures recorded in summer by the Mars rover?
500
This planet has the densest atmosphere of the inner planets.
What is Venus?
500
This is one of the outer planets that is still forming.
What is Saturn?
500
I mercury year equals how many mercury days?
What is 1.5 mercury days?
500
What are the other names for the inner and outer planets?
What are the gas giants and the terrestrial planets?
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What was the number of bodies thought to be in our universe in the 17th century?
What is eight?