Solar System Cloze
... they are big and made mostly of gas. _______________ is the largest planet in the solar system. _________________ is famous for its rings. _______________ also has rings but is not as famous as Saturn. _____________ is named after the god of the sea. Planetoids: Asteroids and Comets There are many o ...
... they are big and made mostly of gas. _______________ is the largest planet in the solar system. _________________ is famous for its rings. _______________ also has rings but is not as famous as Saturn. _____________ is named after the god of the sea. Planetoids: Asteroids and Comets There are many o ...
Solar System - Spring Branch ISD
... Beyond the orbit of Pluto is the __________. Oort cloud The Oort cloud is a spherical cloud that surrounds the Solar System and lays roughly a light-year ________ from the Sun. It contains an estimated 10 trillion comets with the combined mass of the Earth. _______ ...
... Beyond the orbit of Pluto is the __________. Oort cloud The Oort cloud is a spherical cloud that surrounds the Solar System and lays roughly a light-year ________ from the Sun. It contains an estimated 10 trillion comets with the combined mass of the Earth. _______ ...
Rank the Planets
... Jupiter is mostly made of H & He and is the largest planet. The Great Red Spot is a storm about 1.5 times the size of Earth. Saturn is the 2nd largest planet in the solar system and has the largest rings of all of the planets that consist of icy particles. Uranus is tipped over on its side and rotat ...
... Jupiter is mostly made of H & He and is the largest planet. The Great Red Spot is a storm about 1.5 times the size of Earth. Saturn is the 2nd largest planet in the solar system and has the largest rings of all of the planets that consist of icy particles. Uranus is tipped over on its side and rotat ...
Chapter 7 – Our Planetary System 7.1 Studying the Solar System
... Nearly identical in __________________ to Earth; surface hidden by clouds ...
... Nearly identical in __________________ to Earth; surface hidden by clouds ...
Make up notes
... • Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars • Earth - only one with water on the surface and can support life ...
... • Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars • Earth - only one with water on the surface and can support life ...
Public Lecture - Our Solar System
... • Interplanetary rocky material smaller than 100m (down to grain size) – Called a meteor as it burns in Earth’s atmosphere – If it makes it to the ground, it is a meteorite ...
... • Interplanetary rocky material smaller than 100m (down to grain size) – Called a meteor as it burns in Earth’s atmosphere – If it makes it to the ground, it is a meteorite ...
Ch. 16 - The Solar System Study Guide GPS: S6E1
... 3. In a _________________________________ system, Earth and the other planets revolve around the Sun. 4. Around 1543, the Polish astronomer, ________________________________ further developed the heliocentric model. 5. ______________________________ used the newly invented telescope to make discover ...
... 3. In a _________________________________ system, Earth and the other planets revolve around the Sun. 4. Around 1543, the Polish astronomer, ________________________________ further developed the heliocentric model. 5. ______________________________ used the newly invented telescope to make discover ...
Chapter 27
... equal amounts of time. This implies that the closer the planet is to the Sun, the faster it is moving in its orbit, which is due to the greater influence of gravity closer to the Sun. Kepler’s third law, the Law of Periods, states that the cube of a planet’s average distance from the Sun is directly ...
... equal amounts of time. This implies that the closer the planet is to the Sun, the faster it is moving in its orbit, which is due to the greater influence of gravity closer to the Sun. Kepler’s third law, the Law of Periods, states that the cube of a planet’s average distance from the Sun is directly ...
Planets - Classifying
... Planets - Classifying We can differentiate the planets several ways: By composition the planets are divided into: ...
... Planets - Classifying We can differentiate the planets several ways: By composition the planets are divided into: ...
Astronomy Name ______KEY Solar System Objects Quiz Study
... 3. Meteoroid small piece of rock/metal floating in space 4. Meteorite rock/metal found on Earth that came from space 5. Asteroid large piece of rock/metal floating in space 6. Comet dirty snowball (ice and dust) orbiting Sun in very elliptical orbit; can be seen for weeks or months 3. Solar System F ...
... 3. Meteoroid small piece of rock/metal floating in space 4. Meteorite rock/metal found on Earth that came from space 5. Asteroid large piece of rock/metal floating in space 6. Comet dirty snowball (ice and dust) orbiting Sun in very elliptical orbit; can be seen for weeks or months 3. Solar System F ...
Toilet Paper Solar System
... between the first and second sheet of toilet paper. This is approximately (to scale) the size of the Sun. The other objects in our solar system are too small to draw on this scale; we will use large X's to represent their placement. 3 Carefully write "SUN" near the dot. 4 Using the perforations betw ...
... between the first and second sheet of toilet paper. This is approximately (to scale) the size of the Sun. The other objects in our solar system are too small to draw on this scale; we will use large X's to represent their placement. 3 Carefully write "SUN" near the dot. 4 Using the perforations betw ...
Astronomy HOMEWORK Chapter 5 - 9th Edition 2. Pluto is most
... scientific units: period in seconds, semimajor axis in meters, and mass in kilograms.) The data are used to find M . The volume is determined by measuring the diameter of the planet, by measuring the diameter of its image at known magnification. The formula for the volume of a sphere is V = (4/3)πr ...
... scientific units: period in seconds, semimajor axis in meters, and mass in kilograms.) The data are used to find M . The volume is determined by measuring the diameter of the planet, by measuring the diameter of its image at known magnification. The formula for the volume of a sphere is V = (4/3)πr ...
Chapter 3
... The outer planets are the five planets farthest from the sun. They are made mostly of frozen gases and are much colder than the inner planets. ...
... The outer planets are the five planets farthest from the sun. They are made mostly of frozen gases and are much colder than the inner planets. ...
Solar System and Astronomy puzzle 001
... a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common center of mass 10. natural satellite 12. a massive, gravitationally bound system consisting of stars, stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and dust 13. growth of a massive object by gravitationally attracting more matter ...
... a star system consisting of two stars orbiting around their common center of mass 10. natural satellite 12. a massive, gravitationally bound system consisting of stars, stellar remnants, an interstellar medium of gas and dust 13. growth of a massive object by gravitationally attracting more matter ...
The Solar System
... The Solar System Contains: • One star (the sun). • Nine planets (well now there’s eight planets and 3 dwarf planets). • 157 moons (at last count) orbiting the planets. • Eight large asteroids. • More than 100 Kuiper belt objects larger than 300 km in diameter. • Tens of thousands of smaller asteroi ...
... The Solar System Contains: • One star (the sun). • Nine planets (well now there’s eight planets and 3 dwarf planets). • 157 moons (at last count) orbiting the planets. • Eight large asteroids. • More than 100 Kuiper belt objects larger than 300 km in diameter. • Tens of thousands of smaller asteroi ...
Jeopardy
... This is the gas that makes Uranus and Neptune more blue than any of the other Jovian planets. ...
... This is the gas that makes Uranus and Neptune more blue than any of the other Jovian planets. ...
Solar System Cloze
... they are big and made mostly of gas. _______________ is the largest planet in the solar system. _________________ is famous for its rings. _______________ also has rings but is not as famous as Saturn. _____________ is named after the god of the sea. Planetoids: Asteroids and Comets There are many o ...
... they are big and made mostly of gas. _______________ is the largest planet in the solar system. _________________ is famous for its rings. _______________ also has rings but is not as famous as Saturn. _____________ is named after the god of the sea. Planetoids: Asteroids and Comets There are many o ...
Solar System - Noadswood Science
... Solar System Presentations To recap all the planets, and identify some of their key characteristics ...
... Solar System Presentations To recap all the planets, and identify some of their key characteristics ...
Geocentric System
... planet from east to west, opposite to the direction of rotation of most planets and moons ...
... planet from east to west, opposite to the direction of rotation of most planets and moons ...
Grades 1 – 3 - Adventure Science Center Learning Expedition Guide
... 2. Find the two planets that look blue. Write the planets’ names. ___________________________________________________________________________ 3. Find Pluto. Write something interesting about Pluto. ___________________________________________________________________________ 4. Find which planet has t ...
... 2. Find the two planets that look blue. Write the planets’ names. ___________________________________________________________________________ 3. Find Pluto. Write something interesting about Pluto. ___________________________________________________________________________ 4. Find which planet has t ...
Dwarf planet
A dwarf planet is a planetary-mass object that is neither a planet nor a natural satellite. That is, it is in direct orbit of the Sun, and is massive enough for its shape to be in hydrostatic equilibrium under its own gravity, but has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit.The term dwarf planet was adopted in 2006 as part of a three-way categorization of bodies orbiting the Sun, brought about by an increase in discoveries of objects farther away from the Sun than Neptune that rivaled Pluto in size, and finally precipitated by the discovery of an even more massive object, Eris. The exclusion of dwarf planets from the roster of planets by the IAU has been both praised and criticized; it was said to be the ""right decision"" by astronomer Mike Brown, who discovered Eris and other new dwarf planets, but has been rejected by Alan Stern, who had coined the term dwarf planet in 1990.The International Astronomical Union (IAU) currently recognizes five dwarf planets: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. Brown criticizes this official recognition: ""A reasonable person might think that this means that there are five known objects in the solar system which fit the IAU definition of dwarf planet, but this reasonable person would be nowhere close to correct.""It is suspected that another hundred or so known objects in the Solar System are dwarf planets. Estimates are that up to 200 dwarf planets may be found when the entire region known as the Kuiper belt is explored, and that the number may exceed 10,000 when objects scattered outside the Kuiper belt are considered. Individual astronomers recognize several of these, and in August 2011 Mike Brown published a list of 390 candidate objects, ranging from ""nearly certain"" to ""possible"" dwarf planets. Brown currently identifies eleven known objects – the five accepted by the IAU plus 2007 OR10, Quaoar, Sedna, Orcus, 2002 MS4 and Salacia – as ""virtually certain"", with another dozen highly likely. Stern states that there are more than a dozen known dwarf planets.However, only two of these bodies, Ceres and Pluto, have been observed in enough detail to demonstrate that they actually fit the IAU's definition. The IAU accepted Eris as a dwarf planet because it is more massive than Pluto. They subsequently decided that unnamed trans-Neptunian objects with an absolute magnitude brighter than +1 (and hence a diameter of ≥838 km assuming a geometric albedo of ≤1) are to be named under the assumption that they are dwarf planets. The only two such objects known at the time, Makemake and Haumea, went through this naming procedure and were declared to be dwarf planets. The question of whether other likely objects are dwarf planets has never been addressed by the IAU. The classification of bodies in other planetary systems with the characteristics of dwarf planets has not been addressed.