Astronomy
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| Solar system | The Sun and all other objects in orbit around it.
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| Planets | Round objects in space that are satellites of the Sun.
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| Telescope | Instruments that allow us to see far away things appear close.
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| Comet | Made up of mostly ice with rocks and dust. This moves in a long narrow orbit.
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| Asteroids | Large chunk of rock or metal in space. A belt of these separate the inner and outer planets.
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| Meteor | A piece of asteroid that has broken off and has entered the Earth’s atmosphere. Small forms of this burn up in Earth’s Atmosphere and do not reach Earth’s Surface.
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| Inner planets | Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. These planets are small and rocky. Warmer and closer to the sun. These are more like Earth.
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| Outer planets | Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. These planets are large and are made up of a lot of gas. There surface is mainly made of hydrogen and helium. They all have a ring system, even though they may be hard to see.
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| Rotation | The act of spinning. The Earth has one of these each day.
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| Axis | Real or imaginary line that an object spins around.
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| Revolution | When one object travels around another. The Earth does one of these every 365 ¼ days.
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| Tides | The daily rise and fall of the ocean’s surface.
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