Space 6.11 ABC

Mimics Earth by regulating air pressure, temperature, and oxygen

• meteoroid

• space shuttle

• solar system

• space suit

The International Space Station

• Manned Maneuvering Unit (like a jet back) allows astronaut to move around

• the path of a satellite

• Unmanned spacecraft (no humans on board) includes telescopes, probes, and rovers which are like robots that collect data and take photos

• Thick for protections from micrometeroids and other space debris

Inner Planets

• Rocky, Terrestrial

• Gas Giants, rocky cores surrounded by huge atmospheres.

• small Solar System body that orbits a star.

• the effect of gravity can be very small but it is never “zero”

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Outer Planets

• orbit the sun, irregular

• the path of a satellite

• The force of gravity is related to mass

• Gas Giants, rocky cores surrounded by huge atmospheres.

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Asteroids

• are rocks that are orbiting the Sun.

• are meteoroids that actual hit the earth.

• small Solar System body that orbits a star

• Rocky, Terrestrial

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Meteoroids

• The force of gravity is related to mass - this means bigger objects have stronger gravity. 

• are pieces of asteroids that break off and continue a path through space.

• very weak pull of gravity

• the effect of gravity can be very small but it is never “zero”

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 asteroid belt

• is the most massive planet (318 time the mass of Earth). 

• anything in orbit

• the effect of gravity can be very small but it is never “zero” 

• a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, located roughly between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars.

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heavenly bodies are objects in space such as the sun, moon, planets, and stars

• celestial objects

• coma

• gravity

• meteor

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the nebulous envelope around the nucleus of a comet,

• coma

• comet

• moon

• orbit

celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a “tail” of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun.

• comet

• coma

• orbit

• star