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Space Vocab List 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| star | a natural body visible in the sky, mostly at night and gives off light |
| satellite | a celestial body orbiting around Earth or another planet, |
| comets | bright, heavenly bodies that develop cloudy tails as they move closer to the sun |
| asteroids | thousands of small planets between Mars and Jupiter |
| meteoroids | small bodies of matter in the Solar System we see when they fall into the atmosphere |
| dwarf planet | an object the size of a small planet, but it is NOT a planet, moon, or satellite |