a. Match the name of each celestial object with the correct description in the table below. Description
Name of celestial object
Consisting of burning gas Orbits a planet Orbits a star
b. Which of the celestial objects above has the largest diameter? 3. Final Examination 2019, Question 16
2019 marks the 50th anniversary of man’s first landing on the Moon. Since then there have been a number of other missions to the Moon.
The dark circles visible on the Moon’s surface are craters. Craters occur when objects with high speed strike the surface of the Moon. Examples of such objects are asteroids and comets. What is an asteroid?
:Fig. 34.13 4. Sample Paper 2018, Question 16
The planet Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and is described as a ‘gas giant’. Jupiter has four large moons and many smaller ones. These large moons were discovered in 1610 by Italian scientist Galileo Galilei. Data about the size and density of the four large moons of Jupiter is given in the table below.