Science Solar System
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- Solar System
- The sun and the object that orbits the sun.
- Orbit
- Thepath an object takes as it moves around the object in space.
- Planet
- A large body of rock or gas that orbits the sun.
- Sun
- A hot ball of glowing gas.
- Revolution
- The movement of one object around another object.
- Rotation
- The spinning of an object on an axis.
- Phases
- The different shapes the moon seems to have in the sky when observed from Earth.
- Lunar Eclipse
- Happens when the Earths shadow falls on the moon.
- Solar Eclipse
- Happens when the moons shadow falls on the Earth.
- Star
- Hot ball of glowing gas like the sun.
- constellation
- A group of stars that form a pattern.
- Telescope
- Makes things look bigger when they are far away.
- 4 Inner planets
- Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
- Outer Planets
- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto