Dubinsky-AstronomyVocabularyWords
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| geocentric | the belief that the earth is the center of our solar system
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| heliocentric | the belief that the sun is the center of our solar system
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| solar system | the planets and moons and other space bodies that orbit our sun
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| planet | a large celestial body that orbits a star
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| moon | a smaller celestial body that orbits a planet
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| satellite | anything that orbits a planet or star
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| star | a glowing ball of burning gas
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| comet | a "dirty snowball" that orbits the sun
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| meteor | a solid object that shoots through space and creates a bright light when it hits our atmosphere
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| meteorite | fragments of rock that survive their fall through earth's atmosphere
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| meteoroid | fragments of rock that shoot through earth's atmosphere
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| asteroids | rocks that orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter
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| rotate | to spin on an axis
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