Solar System Vocabulary

To move around something in a circular path around something else.

A hot, sphere of gas that gives off energy.

The path an object takes around something as it revolves.

A hole or pit made on the surface of an object.

A fragment of rock, ice, or metal that burns up in the earth’s atmosphere.

A real or imaginary line that an object spins around.

A number of stars that appears to form patterns.

The sun and all the objects orbit around it.

To spin around

A chunk of ice and rock that orbits the sun in a long narrow orbit.

Chunks of rock and metal that orbit the sun.

A satellite of the sun.