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| Solar System | Consists of the Sun, planets, their moons, meteors, asteroids, and comets.
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| Milky Way Galaxy | The galaxy in which our solar system is located.
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| Gravity | The force that pulls two objects together; it pulls us toward Earth and it keeps the planets in motion around the sun.
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| Astronomy | The study of the moon, stars and other objects in space.
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| Axis | An imaginary line that passes through Earth's center and the north and the south poles, about which the Earth rotates.
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| Rotation | The spinning motion of a planet about its axis.
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| Revolution | The movement of an object around another object.
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| Orbit | The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space.
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| Tides | The daily rise and fall of Earth's waters on shores.
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| Gravity | The attractive force between two objects; its magnitude depends on their masses and the distance between them.
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| Satellite | Any object that revolves around another object.
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| Phase | One of the shapes of the moon as seen form Earth.
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| Crater | A round pit of the moon's surface.
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| Maria | Dark,flat regions on the moons surface.
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| Core | The central part of the sun, where nuclear fusion occurs.
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| Comet | A ball of ice and dust whose orbit is usually a long, narrow eclipse; it has a "glowing tail" up to 100 million miles long.
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| Asteroids | Objects revolving around the sun that are too small and too numerous to be considered planets.
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| Asteroid belt | The region of the solar system between the orbits of mars and jupiter, where many asteroids are found.
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| Meteoroid | A chunk of rock or dust in space.
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| Meteorite | A meteoroid that has hit Earth's surface.
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| Space Station | A man made laboratory orbiting Earth.
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