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What is a natural or artificial body that orbits another body?
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Satellite
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Too small for its gravity to hold onto an atmosphere or a moon
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Mercury
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Chunks of ice and rock that travel around the sun in a variety of orbits
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Comets
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What are sometimes called minor planets?
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Asteroids
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Has atmosphere, oceans, and green house effect that supports life
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Earth
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Has a dense hot atmosphere containing carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid
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Venus
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Has white clouds of methane ice and a moon nicknamed "cantaloupe moon"
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Neptune
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Has a moon nearly half its size, and it is called the "double planet"
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Pluto
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Has mountains, deserts, volcanoes, canyons,and a thin atmosphere of carbon dioxide
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Mars
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It is made up of the dust, gas particles, and rocks thrown off by comets
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Meteoroids
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What is a meteor that PLUNGES to the EARTH in one piece?
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Meteorite
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Distance between the Earth and sun
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astronomical unit
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Which planet is blue-green?
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Uranus
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Why are asteroids considered to be parts of a planet?
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The force of Jupiter's gravity may have pulled the tiny planet apart
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What are the inner planets made up of?
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rock
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Has a giant red spot that may be a huge storm?
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Jupiter
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Which planet can float of water?
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Saturn
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Small rocky bodies that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter.
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asteriods
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What are the outer planets made up of?
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Gas
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