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Orbit

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An circular/ elliptical path that revolves around another object

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Solar system

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A object system that will revolve around a star

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Galaxy

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Groups of solar systems, dust, and gas staying together by gravity; our solar system is part of a Milky Way galaxy

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Universe

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Pretty much anything that is in, around or, on earth

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Satellite

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An object that is natural or artificial the revolves near other objects

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Rotation

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A planet spinning around an axis

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Revolution

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As the planets rotate the path that the planets will take around our Sun is known as their orbit. The planets do not go around like perfect circles.The Sun’s gravitational pull keeps the planets in place orbit, just as Earth’s gravitational pull holds the Moon in orbit.

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Season

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As the earth revolves around the sun it will change the time period

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Equinox

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A twice-a-year occurrence when the earth’s axis is at a 90 angle to a line making it joining the sun and earth’s center.

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solstice

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A twice-a-year occurrence when the sun will appear at the tallest point in the sky as seen from the north/south pole

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Mare

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The lunar maria is big and dark, plains on our moon made by ancient volcanic eruptions.

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Eclipse

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an event when a very large body goes between two other large bodies

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Umbra

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A completely shaded part of a shadow unseeable object especially the area on our earth or moon

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Penumbra

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A partly shaded area of the shadow

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Astronomical Unit

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The distance from the earths and suns center to measure our solar system

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Ellipse

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A ellipse is found shaped so you are able to add the distances of two points and always add up to the same number

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Terrestrial Planet

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A terrestrial planet is a planet that is made primarily of silicate rocks or metals with our solar system the terrestrial planets are the inner planets near to our sun

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Gas Giant

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

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Asteroid

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An small object the will spin around the sun

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Comet

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A body made of ice and dust travels long and narrow around the sun.

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Meteor

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a light in the sky that forms when a part of a rock from space burns up in our earth’s atmosphere

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Meteorite

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A part of rock or metal from the strikes our surface

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Geocentric

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Keeping our earth as the center

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Heliocentric

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Keep our sun as the center

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Gravity

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The force that exist between any two objects with mass

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Tide

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A regular fluctuation our seas water brought to by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun on our earth’s oceans

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Waxing

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Growing with light until a our full moon is reached.

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Waning

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the moon having a smaller part of its visible surface illuminated and our moon appear to decrease in size.

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Gibbous Moon

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A half moon

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Crescent Moon

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A thin and curved moon that’s thicker and has thin points at the end

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Full moon

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The moon when the full disk is illuminated

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New Moon

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When the moon is unable to be seen and soon after it can be seen as a crescent moon

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Quarter Moon

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When the moon is half illuminated by the sun

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Perihelion

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A point of a orbit when a solar system body is close to the sun

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Aphelion

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A point of a orbit when a solar system body is far way from the sun to the body around it revolves.

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