What's My Satellite

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Name my satellite

Directions:  Jot down the question number and your answer on a piece of paper.  When you have completed the contest, click on the Mail envelope.  You will receive an answer form page.  Complete the answer form as you did on your piece of paper.  Submit your answers and you may be a lucky winner!

 

  1. I have rings, I'm 1 of the biggest planets, and I have 18 moons.
  2. My namesake is God of the Underworld, I have 1 moon, and I swing inside another planet's orbit.
  3. There's no place like home.
  4. If you weigh 100 lb. on Earth, you would weigh 119 lb. on me, I have 8 moons, and am one of the outer planets.
  5. If you were 10 years old on Earth, you would be 16 1/4 on me, I have only one climate-hot.
  6. My temperature is constant at -220o C, I have 15 moons, I take 84 Earth days to go around the sun.
  7. My namesake is Roman God of War, my sky has a rosy tint, and my neighbor is the asteroid belt.
  8. It would take 1,300 Earths to fill me, I have a storm called "The Great Red Planet", and Ganymede, one of my moons is the largest moon in the solar system.
  9. My namesake is the Swift Messenger of the Gods and if you spent one day on me from certain spots you would be able to see two sunrises and two sunsets.  
  10. If you were 10 years old on Earth you would be 1 1/2 months old on me, my namesake is Roman God Father of the Titans.
  11. I am the only thing in the solar system that man has stepped foot on except Earth.
  12. If you weigh 100 lb. on Earth you would weigh 1 1/2 ounces on my moon, Phobos, and my color comes from minerals in the soil that contain iron and oxygen.
  13. I am 4.5 billion years old and contain 99.86 % of the mass of the entire solar system.
  14. If you weigh 100 lb. on Earth you would weigh 8 ounces on me, I am smaller than Earth's moon.
  15. My namesake is the Roman God of Agriculture and my rings almost stretch 600,000 miles.

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