scince final 6th
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wearepennstate on May 21, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 light year | the distance light trvels in a year used to measure a star's distance from earth |
| big bang theory | a theory that explains how the universe was made |
| expanding universe | the motion of the superclusters of galaxies away from each other |
| oort cloud | cloud containg dirty ice well beyond the orbit of the kupler blet |
| Kuiper Belt | AN area containing rock-ice bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune |
| Exoplanet | planets that ar outside the solar system |
| Milky Way Galaxy | the galaxy we live in |
| Kepler Mission | using transit to detect extrasolar planets. |
| How to detect plents | Doplar shift Transit Coronagraph |
| heat | a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature |
| Newtons | unit of force |
| inertia | the tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion |
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