Week 2 Celestial Object

Objects such as planets, moons, and stars that are located in the sky or in space

• solar system

• planet

• celestial objects

• sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the American governmental agency dedicated to space exploration.

• Rover

• NASA

• Solar system

Large and small rocks or metallic masses orbiting the Sun; made up of materials similar to those that formed the planets.

• asteroids

• meteor

• comet

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The Sun together with the group of planets and other celestial bodies that are held by its gravitational attraction and revolve around it.

• planets

• outer planets

• solar system

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Any of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, whose orbits lie beyond the asteroid belt.

• solar system

• outer planets

• celestial objects

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

A vehicle for exploring the surface of an extraterrestrial body.

• satellite

• NASA

• rover

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

The luminous celestial body around which Earth and other planets revolve and from which they receive heat and light.

• sun

• comet

• meteor

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A small object that enters Earth’s atmosphere from space and burns due to friction, thus emitting light

• star

• moon

• meteor

A celestial body of ice, dust, and rock with an elongated and elliptical orbit.

• comet

• moon

• star

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The region between the inner and outer planets where most asteroids orbit around the sun.

• solar system

• rover

• asteroid belt