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They are small rocks that revolve around the sun.They are made up of different minerals and substances. Asteroid
why arnet Asteroids planets they revolve around the sun like the planets
They are small bodies of matter from outer space that enter the earths atmosphere Meteor
Why arnt Meteors planets They revolve around the sun (glowing rocks)
They are spherical objects that orbit the sun Dwarf Planet
why arnet Dwarf Planets planets They revolve around the sun (smaller than planets)lanet
When a meteor hits the earth meteorite
Small rock or matallic rock body traveling through space Meteoroid
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars Inner Planets
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune Outer Planets
Another word for Newtons 1 law of motion which states an object at rest stays at rest and an object at motion stays at motion unless a motion changes it Inertia
An attraction force between a object with mass Gravity
Why do object with more mass have a stronger gravitation pull with objects with less mass Because the sun is the largest object in our solar system its gravitational pull on all of the planets and objects in our solar system keeps those planets from flying away
what is the distance o fan astromical unit (AU) 149,600,0000 km
Why are astromical units used to measure distances in the solar system Or sun is way too big to try to measure the distance so we use (AU) to scale things down a bit
They are celectial, rocky bodies that make an orbit around a planet or dwarf planet The moon
why are moons not planets They orbit planets intead of the sun
Gas, dust and ice that moves around the sun in an oval shape. They come from the outer parts of our solar system Comets
Why arnet comets planets They revolve around the sun in a very long stretched out orbit
what is the period of revolution The time it take an object to travel once around the sun
what is the period of rotation the time it takes one object to rotate around the sun once
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