Early Models and

Astronomers

Planets May the Force be with

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Shoot for the Moon

Objects in

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Model where planets revolve around the Earth

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Geocentric

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The moon’s crust is mainly made of these two features:

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Anorthrosites and Maria

Who proposed the Heliocentric model?

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Copernicus

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The law that describes the path of a planet that orbits the sun is called ________

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Law of Ellipses

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What astronomer said planets moved in

epicycles, which are little circles as they went

around Earth?

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Ptolemy

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What is the least dense planet that also has bands and rings made of dust and ice?

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Saturn

What is the largest planet in the solar system?

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Jupiter

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Planet who’s axis is almost parallel to its

plane of orbit

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Uranus

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What planet gets its color from large amounts of

methane?

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Uranus

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What 2 inner planets are most alike in their size and mass?

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Venus and Earth

Degree of elongation of an elliptical orbit

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Eccentricity

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The time required for a body to complete a single orbit

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Orbital Period

Force that PULLS on a body in space

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Gravity

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What is a bright streak of light that results from a meteoroid burning up in

our atomosphere?

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Meteor

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Pattern in which is appears as though the

planets are moving backward relative to the

stars

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Retrograde Motion

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The force of gravity between Earth and moon cause _____ in bodies of

water

Tides

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Dark areas on the moons surface

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Mare

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When the lighted part of the moon appears to increase, the moon

is said to be __________.

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Waxing

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This occurs when the shadow of one celestial body falls on another

celestial body

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Eclipse

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What do we call the fine, smooth dust on the moon?

regolith

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Fragments of rock that orbit the sun

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Asteroid

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Small bodies of ice, rock and dust that follows highly

elliptical orbits around the sun

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Comets

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Any part of a meteoroid that didn’t burn up when entering the Earth’s

atmosphere and reached Earth’s surface

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Meteorite

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Region that starts beyond Neptunes orbit which

contains dwarf planets and other small bodies of ice

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Kuiper Belt

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Large cloud of dust and ice believed to hold nuclei of

billions of comets and possible origin of our comets

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Oort Cloud

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