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What Does Astronomical Unit Mean ?

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The Equal Length Of The Disance Of The Earth From The Sun.

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What Do The Two Words Mean ?

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The Distance By Light In A Mean Solar Year.

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What Does The Word “Parsec” Mean ?

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It Is Equivalent To 206,265 Times The Distance Between The Earth And The Sun.

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What Does Nebula Mean ?

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It Is Like A Cloud Of Dust And Interstellar Gas Mixed Together.

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What Does Constellaton Mean ?

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A Group Of Stars That Had Been Given Definite Names Out to them.

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What Does Planetesimal Mean ?

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Two Small Bodies Fused Together To Make A New Planet.

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Define The Word Protoplanetary ?

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They Are Moon-Sized Embryos That Have Undergone Internal Melting To Produce Differentiated Interiors.

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What Is The Meaning For Nuclear Fusion ?

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It Is A Nuclear Reaction To Form A More Massive Nuclei.

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What Are Terrestrial Planets And What Do They Mean ?

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The Four Most Innermost Planets In The Solar System That Have A Rocky Surface.

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What Is A Gas Giant Planet ?

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A Large Planet Made Out Of Almost All Gas.

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What Is A Comet ?

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A Small Extraterrestrial Body That Travels Around The Sun In A Little Orbit.

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What Is An Asteroid ?

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A Small Rocky Body That Is Traveling Between The Orbits Of Mars And Jupiter.

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What Does Cosmologic Mean ?

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Its A Person That Deals With The Origin And The History And The Dynamic Of The Universe.

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What Does The Word Angular Velocity Mean ?

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The Rate Of Change When You Get The Angular Velocity Of A Rotating Body.

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What Is The Definition For The Word Orbit ?

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An Object Or A Spacecraft.

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What Does The Word Period Mean To You ?

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A Past Of Historical Times And The Date Of That Past.

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Whats The Definition Of Revolve ?

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Revolve Is To Move In A Circular Motion Or To Move In A Circle On The Central Axis.

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Whats The Meaning For The Word Rotation?

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It Is The Action Of Rotating Around An Axis Or The Center Of Something.

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Whats The Definition For Sidereal Day?

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It Means The Transits Of The First Point Of Aries And Its 4 Minutes Shorter Then Solar Day.

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What Does Solar Day Mean?

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The Time Between Transits Of The Sun At A Specific Place.

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What Does The Word Year Mean?

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Its The Period Of 365 Days Starting From January The First.

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What Do The Word Accreton Mean ?

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The Growth in Size Or In Extent

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Whats The Definition For Spring Tide ?

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The Rise And Fall Of The Level Of Water After The Fool Moon Or The New Moon.

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Whats The Meaning For Neap Tide ?

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Whenever The Spring Tide Is High The Neap Tide Is Lower.

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What DoesThe Word Eccentricity

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The Quality Of Being Eccentric.

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What Does Coma Mean ?

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The Envelope Around The Nucleus Of A Comet

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Define Precession ?

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The Act Of Preceding.

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What Does Orbital Plane Mean ?

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The Plane On Which A Body Is Orbiting.

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