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| The study of the moon stars and other objects in space. |
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| Imaginary line that passes through earth's center and the north and south pole. |
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| Spinning of earth on its axis. |
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| Movement of one object around another. |
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| Complete revolution of Earth around the sun. |
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| When the sun is farthest north or south of the equator. |
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| attracts objects toward each other. |
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| law of universal gravitation |
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| Every object in the universe attracts all the other objects. |
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| Amount of matter in a object. |
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| force of gravity on a object. |
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| tendency of an object to resist a change in motion. |
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| newton's first law of motion |
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| object at rest that will stay at rest. |
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| different shapes of the moon. |
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| an object in space that comes between another. |
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| a new moon blocking the view of the sun. |
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| darkest part of the moon's shadow. |
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| large part of the moon's shadow. |
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| full moon when earth is directly between the moon and the sun. |
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| daily rise and fall of earths water. |
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| greatest difference between consecutive low and high tides. |
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| tide with the least difference. |
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| device built to see distance objects. |
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| moon's surface has a dark galieo. |
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| chunks of rock or dust from space. |
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| expels gas in one direction. |
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| reaction force that propels a rocket forward. |
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| speed in given direction. |
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| velocity a rocket must achive to establish an orbit around earth. |
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| velocity a rocket must reach to fly out of the earth's gravitational pull. |
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| an object that revolves around another pbject in space. |
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| spacecraft that can carry a crew into space. |
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| a large artifical statellite for which people can live and work on for long periods of time. |
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| spacecraft that carries scientific instruments. |
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