Celestial Objects/Gravity Review

Icy masses that have an elliptical orbit

• Asteroids

• Comets

• Planets

• Moons

Smaller celestial objects that revolve around planets

• Planets

• Meteors

• Moons

• Comets

Large metallic objects that are clustered in bands called belts

• Meteors

• Moons

• Planets

• Asteroids

A star that is dense and made up of hot gases

• Jupiter

• Earth

• The Sun

• Ceres

The force of attraction between two or more objects

• The Sun

• Gravity

• Kinetic

• Potential

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

Object that revolves around a planet due to the planet’s gravitational pull

• Earth

• Planet

• Comet

• Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

Depends on the distance between the mass of objects displaying gravitational attraction

• Dwarf Planet

• Distance

• Strength

• Gravity

The path an object follows as it travels around larger objects

• Force

• Orbit

• Gravity

• Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What celestial objects orbit planets?

• Asteroid

• Comet

• Moons

• Dwarf Planet

Neptune and other distant planets take many Earth years to complete an ___________.

• Force

• Gravitational Pull

• Rotation

• Orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2