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12 Cards in this Set
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a tool that gathers lots of light and magnifies objects that are far away
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telescope
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one complete trip around the sun
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revolution
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a small chunk of rock that orbits around the sun
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asteroid
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the path of any object in space that revolves around another object in space
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orbit
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a massive ball of hot gases that produces its own sunlight
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star
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the way the moon looks because of the amount of the lit side of the moon that can been from Earth at the same time
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moon phase
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one complete spin on an axis
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rotation
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Earth’s shadow moving across the Moon
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lunar eclipse
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the sun, the nine planets and their moons, and other objects that revolve around the sun
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solar system
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a group of stars that make a pattern or shape
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constellation
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an imaginary line that would stick out of Earth at the North and South Poles
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axis
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a large body of matter that revolves, or travels, around any star
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planet
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