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Unit 3 Lesson 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Elliptical | using or involving ellipsis, especially so as to be difficult to understand. |
| Geocentric | describes something that uses earth as a reference |
| Gravitational force | Newton's law of universal gravitation states that any two bodies in the universe attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. |
| Heliocentric | sun centered |
| Moon | the natural satellite of the earth, visible (chiefly at night) by reflected light from the sun. |
| Orbit | a path that a body follows as it travel around another body in space |
| Planet | a relatively large spherical body that orbits the star |
| Solar System | A sun and all of the planets and other bodies that travel around it |