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Apparent Magnitude |
The brightness of a star as seen from Earth |
Shiny⭐ |
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Asteroid |
An object in space that ranges in size from a tiny speck to 500 km wide |
Size wize |
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Astronomical Unit |
The average distance between Eartg and the Sun, about 150×10^6km |
1.5E8 |
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Celestial Object |
Any object that exists in space, such as a planet, a star or a Moon |
Objects from our chapter tittle |
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Comet |
An object composed of rocky material, ice' and gas; comes from the Kupier Belt or Oort Cloud |
M A T E R I A L S |
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Constellation |
A group of stars that seem to form a distinctive pattern in the sky |
Dipper pines |
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Eclipse |
The phenomenon in which one celestial object mives directly in front if another celestial object as viewed from earth |
S h a d o w s |
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Ellipse |
A curve that is generally referred to as an oval or the shape of an egg |
🍳🍳🍳🍳🍳 |
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Gravitational Force |
The force of attraction between all masses in the universes |
Come on bro |
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Latitude |
The location above or below the equator |
Yes⬆⬇ |
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Light Year |
The distance that light travels in one year about 9.5 × 10^12km |
The blank light travels at |
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Lunar eclipse |
The phenomenon in which the full Moon passes into Earths shadow |
Hello darkness my old friend |
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Meteor |
A meteorid that hits Earths atmosphere and burns up |
Burn baby burn |
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Meteorite |
A meteoroid taht is large enough to pads through Earths atmosphere amd reach groumd without being totally burned up |
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Meteoroid |
A piece of rock moving through space |
Boi |
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Orbital radius |
The average distance between the Sun and an object that is orbiting the sun |
↔ |
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Planet |
An object |
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Revolution |
The time it takes for an object to orbit another object |
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Rotation |
The turning of an object around an imaginary axis running through it& Earths rotation around its axis is 24 h |
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Solar eclipse |
The phenomenon in which the shadow of the Moon falls on Earths surface |
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Name the order of the planets (from the sun outwards) |
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune |
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Who were the first astronomers? What did they invent? |
The Mesopotamians and the Calender |
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What does 1 rotation equal to? |
A day; 24 hours |
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What is the Kuiper Belt? |
Is a disc shaped group of millions of small ogjects orbiting the Sun |
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What is the Oort Cloud? |
A spherical cloud of small icy fragments of debris |
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Solar system |
A group of planets that circle 1 or more stars |
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