Celestial Bodies

Celestial body that is in orbit around a star and has enough mass and gravity to force a spherical shape

• Comet

• Asteroid

• Planet

• Meteor

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

Huge glowing ball of hot gas, mainly hydrogen and helium that helds nuclear fissions at its core

• Comet

• Star

• Planet

• Asteroid

What's the name of our galaxy?

• Andromeda

• Orion

• The Rosy Way

• The Milky Way

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

• coma

• comet

• moon

• planet

The force that causes objects with mass to attract one another.

• Galilean Moons

• Moons of Saturn

• Orbital Path

• gravity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

Something that orbits around another object.

• satellite

• sun

• galaxy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

A natural chunk of rock or dust existing outside of Earth’s atmosphere.

• meteor

• meteorites

• meteoid

The gravitationally-curved path of an object around a point in space.

• Galilean Moons

• Moons of Saturn

• Orbital Path

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

A ball of gas in space that produces its own light and heat.

• satellite

• planet

• solar

• star

A large space rock that orbits the sun between Mars and Jupiter.

• comet

• meteoroid

• asteroid

• meteorite

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3