3. Satellites of the Planets Mercury0 Venus0 Earth1 Mars2 Jupiter16 Saturn18? Uranus15 Neptune8 Pluto1

4. The Mack Daddy of the planets Jupiter

5. Io - Only object, other than Earth, with active volcanoes. Constantly changing it’s surface.

6. Io

7. Europa - Ice covered, with a very smooth surface. Liquid ocean believed to be underneath the ice. Sometimes called a giant billiard ball.

8. Europa

9. Ganymede- Largest satellite in the solar system. It is larger than the planets Mercury, Mars and Pluto.

10. Ganymede

11. Callisto - More craters than any other object in the solar system. Took billions of years to create it’s surface features.

12. Callisto

13. Hoola-hooping forever through time. Saturn

15. Titan * second largest satellite in the solar system * it has it’s own atmosphere * organic material has been found on its surface

17. COMETS - are frozen balls of gas, dust and rocks - resembles a dirty snowball

18. - originate in a region out beyond Pluto called the Oort Cloud

19. - have two tails * one of dust * one of ions - tails always point away from the Sun

20. - comets break apart as they approach the Sun - they leave a trail of debris - they increase in size away from the Sun

21. Meteoroids -- pieces of rock left behind in the trail of a comet. Floating free in space. Comet trash.

22. Meteor -- a meteoroid skipping across the Earth’s atmosphere. -- sometimes called a “Shooting Star”

23. Meteorite -- a meteor that has hit the Earth’s surface. -- the rock we can physically pick up.

24. ** chunks of rock or planet like material floating in space

25. ** located in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter

26. ** a few asteroids have a gravitational pull

27. ** a few have their own satellites

28. The End