Section 3 Of Chapter 38 Flashcards
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Inner planets
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Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
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Kuiper belt
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A ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune
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Outer planetsww
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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
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Oort Cloud
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Giant shell of small icy bodies at the far reaches of the solar system
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Plutoids
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Large Kuiper Belt objects
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Astronomical unit
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The distance from Earth to the Sun
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Nebular theory
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Grand theory of the solar systems formation
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Giant impact theory
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Particles in the clouds pulled together through gravitational attraction to form a sphere. It was captured by Earth’s gravity and pulled into Earth’s orbit
