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The Solar System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| solar system | the sun and all of the planets and other bodiees that travel around it |
| heliocentric | sun centered |
| geocentric | describes something that uses earth as the refrence point |
| parallax | an apperent shift in the postotion ioif an object when bvbiewed from different locations |
| gravity | a force of attraction between object |
| orbit | the path that a body follows as it travels around another body |
| aphelion | in the orbit of a planet or other body in trhe solar system |
| perihelion | the point in the orbit if a planet at which the plant is closet to the sun |
| centripetal force | the inward force required to keep a particle ir an object moving |
| solar nebula | a rotating cloud of gas |
| planetesimal | a small body from which a planbet origanted |
| nuclear fusion | the energy released by a fission or fusin reaction |
| sunspot | a dark area of the atmoostphere of the sun that is coooler thann the surrondingareas |
| solar flare | an explosive realese of energy that comes from the sun and is associated with magneitic |
| prominence | a loop relatively cool incadestent gas that extends above the photosphere |
| terrestrial planet | one of the highly dense planets nearest to the sun |
| astronomical unit | the average distance between earth and theb sun |
| gas giant | a planet that has a deep massive atmosphere |
| planetary ring | a disk of matter that encircles a planet |
| dwarf planet | a celestial body that orbits the sun because of its gravity |
| Kuiper Belt | a region of the solar system |
| Kuiper Belt object | one of hundreds or thousands of minor planet sized objects |
| comet | a small body that gives of gas and dust |
| Oort cloud | a spherical region that surronds the solar system |
| asteroid | a small rocky object that oorbbits the sun |
| meteoroid | a smqall rocky body that goes in space |
| meteor | a metoriod thats reaches Earth's surface withoout up |
| meteorite | a bright streak of llight that results when a meter bur |
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