Wharton 6.8 Scientists & The Solar System

When an orbiting object moves closer to a planet its speed...

Which is not a terrestrial planet?

Comets come from the

A chunk of asteroid that hits the earth is called a

What planet rolls on it's side?

What planet has an atmosphere 90X more dense than ours with 96% CO2?

Which planet spins backwards?

Who did all the mathematical work involving ellipses?

If a space debris (comet/asteroid) comes close to earth it's called

The storm on Jupiter is called...

What is it called when a planet seems to move backwards?

Who is credited with the correct, heliocentric model of the solar system?

All gas giants have H and He, but Neptune and Uranus also have..

Who developed the Geocentric model of the solar system?

All gas giants

Asteroids are found in the ____ ___ located between Mars and Jupiter.

Most of the Planetoids/Dwarf Planets are in the

Haumea, MakeMake, Ceres, Eris are...

Terrestrial planets

What planet did Galileo look at, that changed it all, and proved Copernicus correct?

The biggest volcano in the solar system is found on...

A comet is a

A _______ is a bit of space dust in space orbiting the sun.

A _________is a piece of dust burning up in the atmosphere.

What planet is the least dense and is a flattened oblate spheroid?