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18 Cards in this Set
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Mercury and venus don't have these |
Moons |
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Earths moon |
Luna |
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Mars moons (2) |
Diemos and Phobos |
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Jupiters largest moons (4) |
Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, Lo |
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Saturns most important moon |
Titan |
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Uranus important moon (playa,playa) |
Miranda |
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Neptune's moon |
Triton |
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Pluto's moon (Get it pluto) |
Charon |
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This eclipse only takes a few minutes and is when the moon is between the sun and the earth |
Solar eclipse |
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This ecplise can take hours and is when the earth is between the sun and the moon |
Lunar eclipse |
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The moon phases in order |
new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waning crescent, third/last quarter, waning crescent, full moon, waxing gibbous |
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Four inner planets |
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars |
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4 Outter planets and other |
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto (not a planet) |
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Why is Pluto not a planet? |
Small, Rocky (not like outer planets which are gas), unique orbit, moon is too large |
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How did Luna (our moon) form??? |
A mars sized objects collided with Earth while it was still cooling and scooped out a chunk and got caught In earths orbit. Rotation of both objects caused them to become rounded. |
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Which ones are larger asteroids or meteoroids?? |
Asteroids |
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What does Earths atmosphere do to most of the space objects we collide with?? |
Burns them up |
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This scale rates the hazard level of an object moving towards earth |
Torino Scale |
