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20 Cards in this Set
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Artificial |
Man made |
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Natural |
Made by nature |
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Meteor |
A price of rock or space dust that makes a streak of light in the sky |
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Milky Way |
The galaxy containing our sun and Solar system |
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Asteroid |
Lumps of rock orbiting the sun left over from when our Solar system formed |
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Terrestrial |
Made of rock |
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Constellation |
A collection of stars that make a pattern in the sky |
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Ellipse |
A squished circle or overal |
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Eclipse |
When the moon covers up the sun |
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Satellite |
An object that orbits the planet |
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Planeet |
Any large body that orbits a sat in a Solar system |
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Meteorite |
A stony or metallic object that has fallen to Earth from outer space |
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Lunar |
Anything to do with the moon |
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Orbit |
The oath taken by one body in space round another |
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Star |
A body in space that gives out its own light |
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Astronomer |
A scientist who studies space |
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Prenumbra |
The are of blurred or fuzzy shadow round the edges of the Umbria |
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Comet |
Past particles frozen in ice that orbit the sun |
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Season |
Changes in the temperature during the year as the Earth moves around it’s orbit |
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Umbra |
The area of total shadow behind an opaque object where no light has reached |
