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Astronomy
Question | Answer |
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What are pieces of a broken planet? | Asteroids |
what are the inner planets similar in? | composition: iron and nickel cores, mantles and crust |
what is the order of the planets? | mercury, Venus,Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune |
what orbits the sun and is made up of frozen gases? | Comets |
what are outer planets similar in? | size and atmospheres |
what is Pluto now considered? | A dwarf planet |
what are meteoroids? | they are left over pieces of a comet's tail in space |
what a meteor strikes the earth then it's called a what? | meteorite |
how many degrees is the axis tilted? | 23 1/2 |
What is a solstice? | When the sun is at its most northern point or at its most southern point |