Our Solar System

They are sometimes called shooting stars

• interplanetary dust

• asteroids

• comets

• meteors

A meteorite is DIFFERENT from a comet mainly because

• has a tail of ice and gas

• is found in orbit between Jupiter and Mars

• enters the Earth's atmoshere

• has a nucleus mad of rock and snow.

Sometimes I am called a "dirty snowball". I have a hydrogen cloud, coma, and a nucleus. I am invisible except when near the sun. What am I?

• Asteroid

• Star

• Meteor

• Comet

The greater mass a planet has, 

• the greater the gravitational force it has

• the less gravitational force it has

• gravitational force does not depend on mass

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Which outer planets have rings?

• Just Saturn

• Saturn and Jupiter

• Jupiter, Neptune, and Saturn

• all 4 of them

Planets that are closer to the sun

• take more time to orbit

• take less time to orbit

Which of the following is a true statement?

• The galactic center is also the center of our solar system.

• The Sun is the center of the solar system.

• Our solar system is near the galactic center of the Milky Way.

• The Sun is the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

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Between which two planets does the Asteroid Belt lie?

• Jupiter and Saturn

• Mars andJupiter

• Earth and Mars

• Uranus and Neptune

I am a rock entering a planet's atmosphere.

• meteor

• meteorite

• asteroid

• comet

All of the planets in the solar system orbit around

• Earth

• Sun

• Jupiter

• The Milky Way

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