EYEWITNESS PLANETS
VIDEO NOTES
1. The sun with the nine planets orbiting around became our ________________________________________________.
2. The sun is big enough to hold ___________________ earths.
3. The pull of gravity of the sun has robbed _______________ of its atmosphere.
4. Mercury takes ____ earth days to orbit the sun, giving it the shortest _____________ in the solar system.
5. The second planet from the sun is ________________ and is the brightest planet seen from earth.
6. In 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the _____.
7. From time to time the earth and moon line up creating a ________________________________________________.
8. The ___________________________________________ launched in 1990 takes pictures from space.
9. Mars has the highest __________________, Olympus Mons, in the solar system.
10. _____________ is the only planet that carries any promise of supporting a human colony.
11. Beyond Mars lies the ____________________________, containing rocks left over from the birth of the solar system.
12. _______________ is the biggest planet in the solar system.
13. Copernicus was the first scientist to believe the ________, not the ______________ was the center of the solar system.
14. The red spot on Jupiter is really the_________________.
15. Sir Isaac Newton discovered __________________, the force that keeps the planets orbiting around the sun.
16. _____________________ has the brightest rings and more __________________ than any other planet.
17. ___________________ and ___________________ are often described as sister planets.
18. In 1930, the ninth planet, _________________, was discovered by an American scientist and named by an 11 year old schoolgirl.
19. The furthest known star in the universe is ______________ light years away.
20. What was the most interesting thing you learned from this video?_________________________________________________________________________________________________
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