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What do you call a small rocky body orbiting a star?
they may all not be the same.they may beasteroidscometsmeteoroidsprotoplanetsdwarf planetsetc
What do you call a rocky object that revolves around the sun but is too small to be considered a planet?
it is called an asteroid. it can also be called a mini planet.
What do you call a small group of stars in a constellation?
A small group of stars that appear to be close together are often known a cluster. Technically its an asterism.
What are fragments of matter similar in composition to planets that orbit the sun?
Small fragments of matter orbiting earth are known as meteoroids. Once they enter the atmosphere of the earth, they become meteors.
What do you call the space between planets?
Space
What do you call the 4 planets that orbit nearest to the sun?
The rocky planets
What is important adout an atom with a full outer shell?
it's call the red planets,mars is thegod of war mars is a small and rocky plants
How are the four outer planets alike?
The four outer planets are all of the type astronomers call "gas giants", and have no hard, rocky surface per se. The inner planets are all solid rocky "terrestrial" planets. Also, the four outer planets are larger in size and lesser in density than the inner planets.
Why are the outer planets call the gas giants?
The outer planets (with the exception of the dwarf planet - Pluto) are called "gas giants" for two reasons - they are GIANT (in size/mass/gravity etc.) compared to Earth and the inner solar system "rocky" or "terrestrial" planets and are composed mainly of a gaseous atmosphere (with, its hypothesized, a small rocky core at the center).
Why are Jupiter and Saturn and Uranus and Neptune are call gaseous planets?
The reason they call it that is because they're bascially gigantic balls compared to our earth and the ther 3 rocky inner planets and they also have outer layer of gases making them all gaseous planets.
What do you call a small rocky body orbiting a star?
they may all not be the same.they may beasteroidscometsmeteoroidsprotoplanetsdwarf planetsetc
What do you call the small vessels that are close to your cells?
one of them is the capillaries
What do we call the second four plants?
If you mean that the 'first' 4 planets (mercury, venus, earth and mars) are a group then this group is called the ROCKY planets. Using the same grouping the next 4 planets (jupiter, saturn, uranus and neptune) are called the GAS GIANT planets. see the link I will place below
What do you call a huge planet?
we call huge planets huge planets
What do you call a small city developed close to a big city?
regional centre
Is a Jovian planets is call Inner?
Inner planets are terrestrial planets outer are jovian planets
What do you call the inner planets called?
terrestial planets
