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The reason we don't have eclipses is because
Every full moon is because the moon's orbit is on a tilt of 5 in relation to the Earth's orbit around the sun
How much of the moon is lit by the sun
How much sunlight does the moon reject
Half the moon
Between 3 to 12 percent
Waxing
Waning
More than half the sun is lit
Progressively smaller part of visible illuminated surface
Were do the directray's from the sun fall in the southern himisphere during the winter solstice
Over the tropic of cancer
The reasons occur because of these two things
Every full mon the earth is tiltted and Earth revolves around the sun
What is a super moon
When the moon appears large in the sky
Solar
Lunar
Sidereal
Sun
Moon
Stars
Which do we have more often solar eclipse or lunar eclipse and why
Lunar eclipse, because the moon creates a much smaller shadow on the Earth
Which scientists was put under house arrest by the church for stating that the Earth revolved around the sun
Galileo
When is the Earth farthest away from the sun
July 4
When is the Earth closest to the sun
January 4
How lung does it take the the moon to revolve around Earth
How long does it take the moon to complete a full rotation
Month

Month
Tilt of the Earth
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
23.5
23.5 N
23.5 S
What type of eclipses are these 🌞-------🌗-------🌎 🌞----------🌚
Solar and lunar eclips
Length of solar day
Length of sidereal day
24 hours
23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds
Which moon phase comes after the moon
Which moon phase comes before the moon
Waning Gibbous
Waxing Crescent
How long does it take the Earth to complete a rotation
365 days 6 hours 9 minutes
The Earth is on a
The Earth
Tilt
Orbits the sun
Waxing
Waning
Increasing
Decreasing
3 reasons that we thought the Earth was a sphere
A. Bouts over the horizon how they appeared
B. Movement of the stares in the night sky
C. Shape of the Earth shadow during the eclipse
The summer solstice in Northern Hemisphere
The spring Equinox in Southern Hemisphere
June 21
September 21
How much of the moon is lit by the sun
How much sun light does the moon reflect
Half
3%
asteroid
a small, rocky object that orbits the
sun; most asteroids are located in the band
between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
dwarf planet
a celestial body that orbits the
sun, is round because of its own gravity, but
has not cleared its orbital path
gas giant
a planet that has a deep, massive at-
mosphere, such as Jupiter, Saturn, or Neptune
hydrosphere
the portion of Earth that is water
terrestrial planet
one of the highly dense plan-
ets nearest to the sun; Mercury, Venus, Earth,
and Mars
eclipse
an event in which the shadow of one
celestial body falls on another
phase
in astronomy, the change in the
illuminated area of one celestial body as seen
from another celestial body; phases of the
moon are caused by the changing positions of
Earth, the sun, and the moon
planet
a celestial body that orbits the sun, is
round because of its own gravity, and has
cleared the neighborhood around its orbital
path
satellite
a natural or artificial body that revolves
around a celestial body that is greater in mass
solar system
the sun and all of the planets and
other bodies that travel around it
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