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Mercury

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#1
Smallest Planet
Closest to sun
no moons
orbital period: 88 days
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Venus

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#2
Greenhouse effect planet
no moons
probes: Venera (Russian)
Orbital Period: 225 days
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Earth

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Only planet not named after mythological figure
One moon, walked on by 12 astronauts from the Apollo program
Lunar probe (Surveyer)

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Mars

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Red planet
Moons: Phobos (largest) and Demos (fear and dread)
Rovers: Pathfinder, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity
Volcano: Olympus Mons (largest known volcano in the solar system)
Orbital period: 1.9 years

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Jupiter

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Largest Planet, larger than all others put together
Distinguishing feature: a great red spot (a huge storm bigger than Earth)
Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede (largest moon in the Solar System)
Jupiter has many other smaller moons
Probes: Voyager 1 & 2, Galileo
Orbital Period: 12 years

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Saturn

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#6
The Ringed planet
Moons: Titan (moon with mysterious atmosphere) and many others
Probes: Voyager 1 &2, Cassini
Orbital Period 29 years
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Uranus

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#7
Moons: Titania, Oberson, Umbriel, Ariel, Miranda and others (Thirteen of Uranus' moons are named after Shakespearian characters)
Probe: Voyager 2
Discoverer: William Herschel, 1781
Orbital Period: 84 years
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Neptune

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#8
The blue planet
Moons: Triton, Nereid and others
Distinguishing Feature: the great blue spot
Probe: Voyager 2
Discoverer Johann Galle, 1856
Orbital period: 165 years
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Pluto

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(Declassified from planet to dwarf planet in 2006)
Moons: Charon
Discoverer: Clyde Taumbaugh
Orbital period: 248 years

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Early 20th Century American Astonomer

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Edwin Hubble

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American Female Astronomer

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Maria Mitchell

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Danish Astronomer

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Tycho Brahe

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English Astronomer Royal

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Sir. Edmund Halley

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English Astronomer Family

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Herschel

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French Astronomer Family

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Cassini

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German Astronomer

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Johannes Kepler

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Greek Astronomer (2nd Century)

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Ptolemy

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Italian Astonomer

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Galileo (Galilei)

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Polish Astronomer

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Copernicus

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First Dog in Space

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Laika (Russian German Shepard)

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First Man in Space

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Yuri Gagarin

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Yuri Gagarin’s Capsule

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Vostok

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First Woman in Space

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Valentina Tereshkova

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First Space Walk

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Alexei Leonov

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First American in Space (Suborbital)

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Alan Shepard

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2nd American in Space (suborbital)

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Gus Grissom

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Third American in Space (Three orbits)

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John Glenn

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First American woman in space

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Sally Ride

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First American to Walk in Space

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Edward White

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First AMerican woman to walk in space

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Shannon Lucid

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First man to walk on the moon

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Neil Armstrong

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2nd man to walk on the moon

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Buzz Aldrin

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Apollo 13 Commander

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James Lovell

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Oldest US Astronaut, Launched in 1998

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John Glenn (77 Yrs Old)

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Man who played golf on the moon

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Alan Shepard

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First Space Shuttle Crew

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Young and Crippen

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First Female Space Shuttle Commander

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Eileen Collins

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First Satellite, 1957

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First US Satellite

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Explorer 1

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First Weather Satellite

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First communications satellite

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USA First space station

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Russian Space Station (“peace”

in Russian)

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Current Space Station

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ISS (International Space Station)

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Sun’s visible Surface

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Photosphere

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Sun’s “halo”

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Sun’s “breeze”

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Solar wind

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Solar Magnetic storms with 11-year cycles

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Earth’s magnetic belt

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Van Allen Belt

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Belt between Mars and Jupiter

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Asteroid Belt

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First Discovered and largest Known Asteroid

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Closest Major Galaxy

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Andromeda (can by seen by the naked eye)

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Galactic Cloud of Dust and Gas

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Nebula named for sea creature

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Crab Nebula

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“Equine” Nebula

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Horsehead Nebula

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Nebula that can be seen with naked eye

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Orion Nebula

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Measure of a star’s brightness

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“Dog Star” brightest star in the sky

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North Star or Pole Star

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Closest Star

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Alpha Centauri

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Exploding Star

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Bright, distant mass of light and energy

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Rotating Neutron Star

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Infinitely dense center of black hole

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Singularity

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TWin stars rotating around common center

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Binary System

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Stars known as “Seven Sisters”

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November Meteor Shower

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August Meteor Shower

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Theory of Expanding Universe

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Big Bang Theory

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Moon Probe

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NASA Mars Twin Rovers 2005

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Spirit and Opportunity

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Latest NASA mars rover, 2012

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Jupiter Probe

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Grand Tour of Planet Probe

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Voyager 1 and 2

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First man-made object to leave the solar system

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Pioneer 10

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One-person us space program

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Two-person US space program

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Three-person US Space Program

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Apollo 11 landing module

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Where the eagle landed

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Sea of Tranquility

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Apollo 12 landing site

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Ocean of Storms

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First two astronauts on the moon

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Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin

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Last Man on the Moon

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Eugene Cernan

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Rocket used to launch Apollo Missions

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Rocket used to power the European space agency

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Reusable US Space Vehicle

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Space Shuttle

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Space Shuttle Names

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Enterprise (Atmospheric tests Only), Columbia, Challenger, Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavor

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1983 Book Chronicling the US space program

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The Right Stuff

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Come that returns every 76 years

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Halley’s Comet

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Comet that struck Jupiter in 1995

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Shoemaker-Levy 9

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Comet Visible for Several Months in 1996

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Highly-touted comet that fizzled in 1973

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Comet Kahoutek

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