astronomy questions
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| leap year | a year when 4 extra days is added to the calender
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| zenith | point directly above you
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| astrolab | instrement that measures the angle between the horizon
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| absolute magnitude | brightness of a star
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| asteroid | small rocky body that revolves around the sun
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| appartent magnitude | how bright a star appers to a observer
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| calender | system for organizing time
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| asteroid belt | region of solar system that contains most asteroids
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| constellation | a section of the sky that contains reconizable star patterns
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| day | time requierd for earth to rotate once on its axis
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| eclipse | event which the shadow of ones celestial body that falls on another
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| ellipse | a closed curve
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| light year | unit of legnth equal to the distance light travels in space
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| meteriod | a small rocky body that revolves around the sun
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| moon | a natural satilight
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| retrograde rotation | clockwise spin of a planet or moon
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| revolution | elliptical motion of a bodyas it orbits another body in space
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