Section 3 & 4 Solar System

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astroid sizes range from very tiny to blank in diameter

940 kilometers

storms on Neptune reveal a(n) blank and rapidly changing atmosphere

Active

cratered rock and eyes crossed maybe surround a salty ocean and rock core

Callisto

might have a small Rocky blank

Core

solid rocky blank may exist below liquid level of Jupiter

Core

blank is composed mostly of rock; may have an ocean of water under a thick layer of ice

Europa

The blank is the most spectacular of Jupiters many constant high-pressure gas storms

Great red Spot

blank comet orbits the sun every 76 years

Haleys

The blank defined the terms planet and dwarf planet in 2006

IAU

blank is volcanically active; the closest large moved to Jupiter

Io

The fifth planet from the sun and the largest planet in the solar system

Jupiter

largest moon in the solar system, even larger than the planet mercury

gaymede

amateur astronomers discovered comet blank in 1995

haley-bop

what is Jupiters atmosphere primarily made of

hydrogen and helium

below Jupiters atmosphere blank hydrogen and helium are suspected

liquid

small meteoroid that burns up in earths atmosphere

meteor

this occurs when earths orbit passes through a group of meteoroids that enter the atmosphere

meteor showers

meteoroid that strikes earth

meteorite

blank name get into small pieces of comment when they move through space

meteoroid

Jupiter has at least 61 blank four are relatively large and have atmospheres

moons

has at least 11 blank of which pinkish triton is largest

moons

has at least 31 blank

moons

axis of rotation nearly blank to plane of orbit

parallel

eventually, most of the ice in the comments nucleus vaporizes bleeding only small blank

particles

Jupiters gravity may have kept these asteroids from forming a blank

planet

some blank moons maybe astroids pulled from the astroid belt

planets

each large blank is composed of thousands of ringlets of ice and Rock particles

ring

has thick dark blank

rings

largest moon, blank, is larger than the planet Mercury

titan

ice in dust blank as it nears the sun

vaporize

blank of hydrogen and helium and methane

atmosphere

bluish green colored blank similar to that of Uranus

atmosphere

has a thin blank in a solid, rocky surface

atmosphere

thick outer blank of hydrogen helium ammonia methane in water vapor

atmosphere

methane makes the planet blank in color

bluish green

thick blank on Titan prevent scientists from seeing the surface

clouds

vaporized material forms bright cloud called blank around comet nucleus

coma

Dustin rock particles combined with frozen water, methane, and ammonia

comet

comet structure-large blank of frozen rock and ice

dirty snowball

astroids lie and an astroid belt between blank and blank

Mars and Jupiter

usually the eighth planet from the sun large and gaseous

Neptune

large group of comet surrounding solar system beyond Pluto

Oort cloud

Dorf planet, occasionally closer to the sun than Neptune, one of three dwarf planets in the solar system

Pluto

sixth planet from the sun, the second largest in the solar system, lowest density

Saturn

Solar wind pushes on gas and dust in the coma causing the particles to form a tail that always points away from the blank

Sun

has a blank moons

Three

seventh planet from the sun, large and gaseous

Uranus

Rock similar to that which formed planets

astroid

The near earth asteroid Rendezvous probe indicates blank 433 Eros has been in many collisions overtime

astroid


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