The Solar System Flashcards
This is one of Mars 2 moons. This moon is 7 miles long and its name is the same name as a greek god. This name means fear.
Phobos
This is the other moon of mars and is the smaller of the two. This moon gets its name from a greek god and it means terror.
Deimos
The second largest moon of Jupiter and it is roughly the same size as mercury. It was once thought to have nothing but just rock and ice, but it was discovered that it has a deep ocean that may contain life.
Callisto
The largest moon of not only Jupiter, but our solar system and it is the only moon to have a magentic feild. Scientists have also found evidence that there may be a deep ocean within this moon
Ganymede
The second largest moon in our galaxy and it orbits around saturn. It is the only moon in our solar system that has a stable atmosphere and the only confirmed moon to have surface water.
Titan
This moon is the largest moon of Neptune and was the first moon of Neptune to be discovered. It is the only large moon in our solar system that orbits in the opposite direction of the planet that is orbits.
Tirton
Smallest moon orbiting jupiter and is the 6th largest moon in our solar system
Europa
The brightest world in our solar system and it is one of saturn’s moon. It has a large salt water ocean and is thought it might have hyrodthermal vents
Enceladus
One of Jupiter’s moons and is the largest volcanically active world in our solar system
Io
This moon is the largest of the five know moons that orbit Pluto. It is also known as the largest known moon in our solar system, relative to its size of the host planet. In a phenomenon known as, mutual tidal locking, this moon and pluto’s surfaces always face each other.
Charon.
This object in space is made up of rocks and metals and are formed closer to stars. They almost all travel in orbit around the sun between Jupiter and Mars
Asteroid
This object in space is made up of mostly ice and is formed farther away from stars. They have an ellipitcal orbit.
Comet
An asteroid that has travels around earth every 75-76 years and was named after the person that discovered it
Halley’s comet
One of the brightest and most visble comets to fly by Earth in 1997 and it was the most viewed comet. It was named after two astronomers that viewed it.
Comet Hale-Bopp
A comet that broke apart in 1992 and hit Juipter in 1994. It was the firstdirect observation of extraterrestial collison of solar objects.
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
