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Astronomy 1
Question | Answer |
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What are asteroids? | Pieces of a broken planet |
Where are asteroids found? | In the Asteroid Belt |
What is the order of the planets from the Sun? | 1. Mercury, 2. Venus, 3. Earth, 4. Mars, 5. Jupiter, 6. Saturn, 7. Uranus, 8. Neptune |
What are the similarities of the inner planets? | Compositon: iron and nickel cores, mantles, and crust |
What are comets? | Orbit the sun and are made up of frozen gas |
What are meteoroids? | Are left over pieces of a comet's tails floating in space |
What is a Meteor? | When the pieces enter the Earth's atmosphere where the burn up. |
What is it called when occasionally a Meteor strikes the Earth? | Meteorite |
What is a Solstice? | When the sun is at its most northern point(over the Tropic of Cancer)or at its most southern point ( over the Tropic of Cancer |
What is the Impact theory? | States that the Moon formed when a large object struck the Earth and material from inside the Earth was ejected out in space and this material formed the moon. |