A small rocky body orbiting the sun
Asteroid
The region of the solar systems between the orbits of mars and jupiter
Asteroid belt
A mixture of gasses that suronds a planet or moon
Atmosphere
A ball of frozen dust and rocks that orbits a planet
comet
A large round pit caused by the impact of a meteoroid
crater
A collection of stars dust and gas bound together by gravity
galaxy
The outer planets
gas giants
A force that pulls an object toward each other
gravity
A celestial body moving in an elliptical
planets
A natural object that orbits a planet
moon
The galaxy containing the solar system
milky way
The path an object follows as it moves around another object
orbit
The movment of an object around anouther odject
revolution
The spinning motion of a planet on its axis
rotainion
The collection of eight planets and their moons in ordit around the sun
solar system
A ball of hot gas primarily hydrogen and helium that undergoes nuclear fusion
star
The name of the inner planets
terrestrial
A celestial body resembling a small planet but lacking certain needs
dawrf planets
The distance light travels in one year
light year
A ball of frozen dust rock that orbits the sun and has a tail
kuiper belt
A small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth atmosphere appearing as a streak of light
meteor
All of space and everything in it
universe