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The circular path of an object as it revolves around another object due to gravity

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Orbit

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A system of objects that revolve around a star

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Solar system

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A group of solar systems, dust, and gas held together by gravity

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Galaxy

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Space and all the matter in it

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Universe

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An object that orbits a more massive object

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Satellite

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A round pit left behind on the surface of a planet after a smaller thing strikes the

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Impact Crater

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The spinning of a celestial body, such as a planet, around an axis

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Rotation

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The orbiting of an object around another object

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Revolution

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A period of the year determined by the position of Earth as it revolves around the sun

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Season

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The time or date at which the sun crosses the celestial equator

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Equinox

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Either of the two times in a year when the sun reaches its highest and lowest point in the sky at noon marked by the longest and shortest days

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Solstice

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A large dark plain of solidified lava on the moon.

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Lunar mare

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One thing casts a shadow onto another

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Eclipse

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The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object, especially the area on the earth or moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse

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Umbra

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The outer region of the shadow cast by an opaque object

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Penumbra

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Used to measure distances in the solar system

Earth to sun = 1 AU

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Astronomical unit

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a oval or flattened circle

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Ellipse

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A planet that has a rocky surface

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Terrestrial planet

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a large planet of relatively low density consisting predominantly of hydrogen and helium, such as Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune

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Gas giant

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a small object made of rock or metal that orbits the sun

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Asteroid

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a body of ice and dust that travels in a long narrow orbit around the sun

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Comet

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a streak of light in the sky that forms when a piece of rock from space burns up in Earth’s atmosphere (related term: shooting star)

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Meteor

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a piece of rock or metal from space that strikes Earth’s surface

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Meteorite

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having the Earth as the center

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Geocentric

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having the sun as the center

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Heliocentric

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a force that exists between any two objects that have mass (related word: gravitational)

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Gravity

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the rise and fall of the ocean’s surface levels due to the gravitational pull of the sun and moon (related word: tidal)

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Tides

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of the moon between new and full) have a progressively larger part of its visible surface illuminated, increasing its apparent size

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Waxing

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(of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size.

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Waning

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Any moon that appears more than half lighted but less than full is called a gibbous moon. The word gibbous comes from a root word that means hump-backed. … It’s easy to see a waxing gibbous moon in the daytime because, at this phase of the moon, a respectably large fraction of the moon’s dayside is now facing our way.

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Gibbous moon

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A crescent is a thin, curved shape that’s thicker in the middle and tapers to thin points at each end, like the little sliver of moon you might notice in the sky. Crescent was first used to describe the shape of the waxing, or growing moon, and if you listen closely you can hear its similarity to increase.

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Crescent moon

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the phase of the moon in which its whole disk is illuminated.

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Full moon

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The entire surface of the moon is not illuminated

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New moon

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Half of the surface is not illuminated

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Quarter moon

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An imaginary line which a turning body such as Earth rotates

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Axis

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