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Geocentric Model

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A model of the solar system, Earth is considered the center and everything else revolves around it.

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heliocentric Model

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A model that stated the moon revolves around the earth and that earth and the other planaets revolve around the sun.

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Extrasolar Planet

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planets that orbit around stars other than the sun.

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who developed the geocentric model

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Ptolemy

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Who came up with the heliocentric model

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Nicolas Copernicus

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Who used a telescope to support Copernicus’s model

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Galileo Galilei

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Who discovered that the planets traveled around the sun in an ellipse

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Johannes Kepler

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Do planets travel at different speeds

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True

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What is an astronomical unit

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The average distance from earth to the sun

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What planets are similar Earth

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Terrestrial planets

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Which planets are terrestrial planets

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Mercury Venus and Mars

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What are the Gas Giants called

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Jovian Planets

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What planets are Jovian Planets

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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

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What are the planets classified as that are located between the sun and the asteroid belt

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Inner planets

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What are the inner planets

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Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars

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What are the planets called that are located beyond the asteroid belt

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Outer Planets

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What are the names of the outer planets

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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

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What are the planets classified as that are located between the sun and the earth

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Inferior planets

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What are the names of the inferior planets

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Mercury and Venus

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What are the planets classified as that are located past earth orbit

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Superior orbit

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What are that names of the superior planets

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Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

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