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19 Cards in this Set
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Inner planets |
Terrestrail |
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Outer planets |
Gaseous |
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Asteroid belt |
Located between Mars and jupiter |
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Satellites |
A object that orbits a planet or other celestial bobys |
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Moon |
Natural satellite |
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How many planets in our solar system |
8 |
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What keeps earth in orbit |
The gravitational pull |
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Phases of the moon |
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Hemisphere |
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International space station |
A massive structure that can house astronauts for extended periods of time |
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Comets |
A large peice of frozen gases rock and dust |
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Comets facts |
Comets are frozen because of where the reside within our solar system . Located at the very edge beyond the dwarf planet Pluto into 2 locations the keeper belt and oort cloud |
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Moon facts |
It takes 30 days for the moon to orbit the sun .from Earth we can see only one face of the moon because the spin of the earth and the moon are synchronized in this fashion |
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Who was the first to walk the moom |
Neil Armstrong |
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Artificial satellites |
Used for navigation, communication, weather, earth's observation, and space observation |
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Planets in order |
Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune |
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First to live in space |
Chris |
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Milky way |
The name of our galaxy |
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Sun |
The centre of our solar system |
