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- 4. The planet that is blue and green due to large amounts of methane is?
- 6. _______ is the first planet that was discovered using math and is the farthest from the sun.
- 9. A meteoroid is a piece of metal or rock that is smaller than an asteroid.
- 12. Most comets have two tails ; gaseous tail and dust tail.
- 13. ______ is the sixth planet from the sun, second biggest and nicknamed the jewel of our solar system.
- 14. To be considered a planet a celestial object must orbit around a ____.
- 16. _______ is known as the king of the planets in our solar system.
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- 1. This planet is also known as the red planet and is the fourth from the sun.
- 2. The planet Jupiter is ______ than all of the other planets combined.
- 3. Most asteroids lie in the asteroid ____.
- 5. The smallest planet in our solar system and the closest to the sun.
- 7. Uranus appears to spin ________.
- 8. The hottest planet in our solar system and nicknamed earth's twin sister.
- 10. _____ is our home world, the only planet with water, and sustainable for life.
- 11. A _________ is a solid piece of debris from a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid.
- 15. Mercury moves around the ___ every eighty-eight earth days.