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| The planet Earth, the moon, the sun, seven other objects and their satellites, and smaller objects such as asteroids and comets |
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| To travel in a curved path around something else |
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| One of the four small and rocky planets (Earth, Mercury, Venus, Mars) closest to the sun |
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| The galaxy that the solar system resdies |
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| A huge gas sphere that radiates light |
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| The star at the center of the Solar System of which everything else orbits |
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| A large body orbiting the son |
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| An object, natural or artificial, that orbits a large object |
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| Small solid objects that orbit the sun. Most of the asteroids in the solar system are located between Mars and Jupiter |
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| A mass of ice and dust orbiting the sun. |
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| The third planet from the sun, known as the water planet |
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| A gas that makes 72% of the sun |
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| A gas that makes 26% of the sun |
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| Any of the four planets that are made of gas. These are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune |
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| A huge region beyond the gas giants made of different size ice chunks of matter |
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| the force of attraction between two objects |
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