Unit 6 Solar System, Week 2

The sun together with the group of celestial bodies that are held together by its attraction and revolve around it.

• Solar System

• Oort Cloud

• Asteroid Belt

• Kuiper Belt

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

an object that orbits a star, is large enough to be nearly spherical in shape, and has NO other large object in its orbital path

• Planet

• Dwarf Planet

• Asteriod

• Kuiper Belt

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

The path an object follows as it moves around another object.

• Orbit

• Eccentricity

• Belt

• Gravity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A stretched out circle

• Ellipse

• Eccentricity

• All Orbits

The measure of how far an object's orbit is from being circular

• Eccentricity

• Gravity

• Orbit

• Astronomical Unit

An attractive force that exists between all objects that have mass

• Gravity

• Eccentricity

• Inertia

• Momentum

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

A measure of how hard it is to stop a moving object

• Momentum

• Inertia

• Gravity

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

The tendency for objects in motion to resist changes in their direction and speed

• Inertia

• Momentum

• Gravity

The time it takes an object to travel once around the sun

• Period of Revolution

• Period of Rotation

• Astronomical Unit

• Light Year

The time it takes an object to complete one rotation

• Period of Rotation

• Period of Revolution

• Orbit

• Light Year