America's first weather satellite, its name stood for Television & Infrared Observation Satellite
Corvus, a small constellation south of Virgo, is said to represent this black bird
In 1996 one of these minor planets the size of Pikes Peak was named for newsman Walter Cronkite
Most of these minor planets revolve around the sun in a "belt" between the orbits of Mars & Jupiter
Some scientists say thousands of these, known as "dirty snowballs", strike our atmosphere every day
Unlike the spiral type, like ours, the elliptical type of this system has little gas & rather dim stars
Titan is the largest moon of this planet; Calypso & Telesto are among the smallest
2 stars in the bowl of the Big Dipper, called The Pointers, point to this star
One of the more impressive meteor showers comes in December from this constellation of the twins
In 1994 fragments of Shoemaker-Levy 9 struck this planet, creating a plume over 1,000 miles high