Vocab Flashcards
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Comet
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Dirty snowball traveling in an elliptical orbit around the sun
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Asteroid
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Small, rocky body in orbit around the sun
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Constellation
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Star pattern observed in the night sky
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Meteorite
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Bit of space debris or rock that hits Earth
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Retrograde
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Clockwise spin
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Rocket
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Invention that made space exploration possible
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Satellite
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Human-made object orbiting Earth
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Meteor
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Small piece of space debris or rock burning up in Earth’s atmosphere
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Prograde
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Counterclockwise spin
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Revolution
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One orbit around a larger body in space
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Rotation
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One spin on an axis
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Space probe
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Vehicle carrying scientific instruments into space to collect data
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Big bang theory
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Current scientific understanding of how the universe began
