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3.     What is the largest asteroid?

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4.     What are the three requirements for a planet?

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5.     In what year will New Horizons fly by Pluto?

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6. How many miles wide is Jupiter?

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Vocabulary Challenge!
Match each new word below with its definition.

____ 1. deformed ____ 2. triathlete ____ 3. documentary ____ 4. disabilities ____ 5. Kuiper (KIGH-per) belt ____ 6. orbit ____ 7. intersects ____ 8. dwarf planets

A. circle B. crosses C. a movie based on real life D. someone who competes in long distance sports often involving running, swimming and bicycling E. a distinct class of smaller planets F. wrongly shaped G. something that may limit the activities a person is able to do H. a wide band of icy and rocky objects on the outer edges of our solar system

 Get Writing! Pick a planet you would like to explore. Write a story about a space mission to that planet. What kind of space craft would go on the mission? Would the space craft have a crew? What would scientists hope to discover about that planet? What would the craft find?

Answer Key: 

1.  Accra
     found on page 3, Big Dreams

2. Argentina, Brazil, Nigeria, Thailand   
    found on page 2, Green Machines

3. Ceres
     found on page 6, The New Solar System

4.  It must orbit the sun; It hast o be nearly round; Its orbit should not cross another planet's orbit.    
     found on page 4, Mission: Pluto

5. 2015
    found on page 4 and 5, Mission: Pluto

6. 88,846 miles
    found on page 6, The New Solar System

Vocabulary Challenge!

1. F
2. D
3. C
4. G
5. H
6. A
7. B
8. E