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Solar system
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Astronomical units | Used to measure far distances in space 1 AU=distance from earth to sun |
| Meteoroid | Chunks of rock smaller than asteroid |
| Meteor | Streak of light |
| Meteorite | Space rock found on earth |
| Asteroids | Millions of small rocket objects that orbit the Sun in the asteroid belt between mars and Jupiter |
| Comets e | Made of gas dust, and ice revolve around the sun in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. |
| Inner planets | Torrestrial planets… solid and rocky… mercury Venus earth mars |
| Outer planetss | Gas giants… made of Ice and gas..Jupiter… Saturn… Uranus… Neptune… rings and moons …. Hydrogen helium |
| Mercury | Closest planet to the sun NOT THE HOTTEST-so small it lacks gravity and atmosphere |
| Venus | Hottest planet green house effect |
| Earth | Only planet known to have life moderate temperatures protective atmosphere protected atmosphere liquid water |
| Mars | Largest known mountain Olympus moms possible signs for life |
| Terrestrial planets | The four inner planets |
| Greenhouse effect | occurs when a planets atmosphere traps solar energy and causes the temperature to increase. |
| Jupiter | Largest planet Galilean moons Great Red Spot |
| Saturn | Most complex ring system least dense planet it would float home of titan moon |
| Uranus | Rotation axis is tilted 90 degrees so it rotates like a bowling ball |
| Neptune | Longest period of revolution time swirling storms windiest planet |
| Gas giants | Jupiter Sauternes Uranus Neptune nickname for the 4 outer planets |
| Gallien moons | 4 moons Galileo discovered around Jupiter Io Europa GANYMEDE Callisto |
| Dwarf planets | Pluto was the first same as planets but not larger than it neighbors Ceres is in the asteroid belt. |