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my vocab words

the different appearances of the moon due to its changing position PHASES
occurs when the shadow of 1 celistial body falls on another ECLIPSE
large dark areas on the moon MARIA
the sunlit fraction we can c is getting larger WAXING
the sunlit fraction we can c is getting smaller WANING
the moon passes within the earths shadow LUNAR ECLIPSE
the moon covers the sun SOLAR ECLIPSE
a small body of ice rock cosmic dust loosely packed 2gether that gives off gas and dust in the form of a tail as it passes close 2 the sun COMET
ionized wit tails ION TAIL
inner tail of a comet DUST TAIL
electeical charged paeticals IONS
solid center of a comet NUCLEUS
circles that are streched out r elongated ELLIPSES
sphereical region round the milky way comets revolve round the sun OORT CLOUD
the region of thr solar system outside the orbit of neptune thats occupied by small icy comet like bodys KUIPER BELT
small rocky bodies that revolve round the sun ASTROIDS
small rocky bodies that revolve round the sun METEORIOD
the region of the solar system most astroids occupy; roughly between th orbits of mars & jupiter ASTROID BELT
a meteriod that reaches the earths surface without buning METEROIT
a streak of light caused when a meteoriod r comet dust burns in earths atmosphere b4 it reaches the ground METEOR
A natural r artifical body that revolves around a planet SATELLITE
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