sun - The ONLY star at the center of our solar system., solar system - A star and all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it, star - A huge ball of very hot, glowing gases in space that produces its own light and heat, planet - A large, round body that revolves around a star in a clear orbital path, dwarf planet - An object that orbits the sun and is spherical, but does not have a clear orbital path., asteroid - Rock and iron objects that orbits the sun; most asteroids are located in a band between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, Inner Planets Names - Mercury, Venus, Earth, & Mars: Small, rocky planets that orbit closest to the sun (Terrestrial Planets), Outer Planets Names - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune: large, gas planets that orbit beyond the asteroid belt in our solar system (Gas Giants), meteoroid - a small rocky particle that moves through space, often broken from an asteroid, meteor - A streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth's atmosphere., meteorite - A meteoroid that has hit earth's surface., comet - A chunk of frozen gases, dust, rock and ice that have LONG orbits around the sun and has a tail that always points away from the sun, order of planets from the sun - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Inner planets are made of - small, rocky, dense, few moons, no rings, shorter revolutions, Outer planets are made of - giant, gaseous surfaces, low density, many moons, rings, longer revolutions,

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