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Earth in the Universe
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8th Grade
11/07/2014

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asteroid
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a piece of rock that orbites around the sun
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big bang theory
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all matter and energy started out concentrated in a small area and after a giant explosion matter began to organize into subatomic particles and atoms
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celestial object
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any object outside or above the earths atmosphere
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comet
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a dirty snow ball
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Doppler effect
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the shifting of wave lengths
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eccentricity
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the muesure of the orbit an object takes
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ellipse
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thee type of an orbit a planet takes
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focus
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one of the two pionts to muesure eccentricity
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galaxy
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the second biggest place inb space (think milky way)
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gravitation
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the pull on object has on another object
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impact crater
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when a meteor impacts earths surface
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impact event
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when meteors impact planets
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inertia
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the thought thaat an object at rest will stay at reest but an object in motion will tend to stay in motion
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Jovian planet
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are plants far from the sun (j, s, u, n)
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luminosity (of a star)
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measures how bright a star is
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meteor
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a brief streak across the sky that usually burns up
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Milky Way Galaxy
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the galaxy we live in
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moon
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a body that orbits the planet
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nuclear fusion
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the combining of smaller nuclei into larger nuclei
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red shift
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the moving apart of a celestial object
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revolution
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the orbit a planet takes
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solar system
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the thierd bbiggest classification
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star
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a ball of gas held together by gravity
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terrestrial planet
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planets that are close to the sun (m, v, e, m)
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universe
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anything that exits in any place
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rotation
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when planets spin on their axis
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