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Solar System

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Solar System   Consists of the sun,planets, their moons,meteors,asteroids and comets.  
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Milky Way Galaxy   The galaxy in which our solar system is located.  
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Gravity   The force that pulls two objects together; it pulls us toward earth and it keeps the planets in motion around the sun. The attractive force between two objects; its magnitude depends on their masses and the distance between them.  
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Astronomy   The study of the moon,stars and other objects in space.  
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Axis   An imaginary line that passes through Earth's center and the north and south poles, about which Earth rotates.  
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Rotation   The spinning motion of a planet about its axis.  
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Revolution   The movement of an object(planets revolve around the sun;moons 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 waters on shores.  
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Satellite   Any object that revolves around another object.  
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Phase   One of the different 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,flat regions on the moon's surface.  
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Core   The central part of the sun, where nuclear fusion occurs.  
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Comet   (dirty snowball) a ball of ice and dust whose orbit is usually a long,narrow ellipse; it has a "glowing tail" up to 100 million miles long.  
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Asteroids   (minor planets or planetoids): objects revolving around the sun that are too small and too numerous to be considered planets.  
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Asteroid Belt   The region of the solar system between the orbits of mars and jupiter, where many asteroids are found.  
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Meteroid   A chunk of rock or dust in space.  
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Meteor   (shooting start): a streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteroid in Earth's atmosphere.  
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Meteorite   A meteroid that has hit Earth's surface.  
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Space station   A man made laboratory orbiting the Earth.  
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