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10 Cards in this Set
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Solar System
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The sun and the objects that orbit around it.
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Orbit
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The path an object takes as it moves around another object in space.
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Planet
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A large body of rock or gas that orbits the sun.
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Asteroid
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A chunk of rock or metal that orbits the sun.
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Comet
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A large ball of ice and dust that orbits the sun.
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Rotation
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The spinning of an object on its axis.
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Axis
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An imaginary line that goes through the North pole and the South pole that the Earth rotates on.
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Revolution
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The movement of one object around another object.
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Phases
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The different shapes the moon seems to have in the sky.
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Lunar/Solar Eclipses
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The sun/moon gets dark for a time because the moon/sun moves between Earth and the sun/moon.
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