Solar System
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Solar System | Consists of the sun,planets their moons, meteors, astroids and comets
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Milky Way Galaxy | the galaxy in whichsolar system is located
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Gravity | the force that pulls two objects together; it pulls us towards eath and it keeps the planets motion around the sun
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astronomy | The studies of the moon, stars, and other objects in space
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axis | an imaginery line that passes through Earth's center and and the north and south pole, about which earth rotates
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rotation | the spinning motion of a planet about its axis
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revolution | the movment of an object around another object ( planets revolve around the sun; moon(s) revolve around their planets)
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orbit | the path of an object as it revolves around another object in space
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tides | the daily rise and fall of Earth's water on shore
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Gravity 2nd Definition | The attractive force between two objects; its magnitude depends on their masses and the distance between them
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satellite | any object that revolves around another object
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phase | one of the diffrent shapes of the moon as seen from Earth
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crater | A round pit on the moon's surface
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maria | dark, falt regions on the moon's surface
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core | the centeral part of the sun, where Nuclear fusion occurs
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comet | (dirty snow) a ball of ice and dust whose orbit is usally a long narrow ellipe; it has a "glowwing tail' up to 100 miles long
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asteroid | (minor planet or planetoids) : objects revolving around the sun that are too small ant too numerous to be considered planets
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asteroid belt | the region of the solarsystem between the orbits of mars and jupiter, where many asteriod are found
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meteoroid | a chunck of rock or dust in space
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meteor | (shoting star ) a streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth's atmosphere
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meteorite | a meteoride that has hit Earth's surface
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Space station | a man-made laboratory orbiting the earth
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