Solar System

Solid bits of debris that travel through the solar system

Small rocky planets that orbit closest to our sun are called the

Earths sister planet

Dirty snowball orbiting the sun. A 'tail' forms as it gets closer to the sun

This object looses mass with each pass by the sun along its long radical orbit around the sun.

Planet with the largest most visible rings

Made up of the sun and everything that orbits it

These orbit the sun but may not be spherical and are not the only large object in their orbit

Planet with the fastest revolutions

All stars begin as a

Earth has only one of these natural satellites

The _________________ planets are the large gas giants in our solar system.

Third planet from the sun

Small rocky objects that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter

These are correctly ordered by size; small to large.

Largest planet in our solar system

Object similar to an asteroid but icy

What feature in our solar system separates the rocky planets from the gas giants?

___________ revolve around planets

Orbits the sun, spherical in shape, and has no other large object in its orbitital path

The solar system formed from a cloud of gas and dust called a(n)

A natural satellite that orbits an object other than a star

Blue planet due to the gas methane in its atmosphere

Seventh planet from the sun

Small rocky inner planets

Nebulas are pulled together by this force to form solar systems