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Solar System, Planets, Stars, Galaxies

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Asteroid   rocky objects that orbit the sun  
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Comet   made of gas, dust, ice and moves around the sun in an oval-shaped orbit  
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The Sun   is a star made of mainly hydrogen gas and it's diameter is ten times the diameter of Jupiter  
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Dwarf Planets   spherical object that orbits the sun. Ceres, Pluto, Eris  
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Terrestrial Planets   are the planets closest to the sun, made of rock and metal and have solid outer layers.  
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Gas Giants   primarily made of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.  
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Neil deGrasse Tyson   an astrophysicist who questioned Pluto's classification as a planet.  
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Meteoroid   small, rocky particle that moves through Earth's atmosphere.  
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Meteor   streak of light in Earth's atmosphere made by a glowing meteoroid.  
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Meteorite   is a meteoroid that strikes a planet or a moon  
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Light Year   is the distance light travels in 1year. 300,000km/s  
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Star   large ball of gas held together by gravity with a hot core where nuclear fusion occurs.  
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Nebula   a cloud of gas and dust  
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Supernova   an enormous explosion that destroys a star.  
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Black Hole   an object whose gravity is so great that no light can escape.  
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Galaxies   are huge collection of stars. Spiral, Irregular, Elliptical  
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Big Bang Theory   the universe began from one point billions of years ago and has been expanding ever since.  
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