Solar System
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TracknTerv on May 4, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 SOLAR SYSTEM | the sun and all of the objects that revolve around it, including planets and their satellites, asteroids, dust, and gases |
| THE SUN | the star at the center of the solar system, which Earth and other planetary bodies orbit |
| PLANET | any large mass orbiting a star that shines by reflected light |
| ORBIT | the elliptical path that an object in space travels around another body due to gravity; the motion of the object as it travels the elliptical path |
| MOON | any natural satellite of a planetary body |
| THE MOON | Earth's only natural satellite, which orbits Earth at a distance of about 290,000 miles and is itself 21,600 miles in diameter |
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