Space Vocabulary

The property of an object to resist change in motion. Newton’s 1st law of Motion- an object at rest will remain at rest until acted on by a force.

Large lumps of rock & metal between 1 and 500 miles across that revolve around the Sun in orbits located mostly between Jupiter and Mars.

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Huge, glowing balls of gases that put off light. The closest ____ to Earth is the Sun. Most of the pinpricks of light that shine in the night sky are also ____

Planets between the Sun and the asteroid belt that are rocky (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars)also called terrestrial planets.

The attractive force between two bodies (ex. sun and planets, ball and ground). Strength depends on the mass and distance between the objects.

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An instrument used to view distant objects. Galileo was the first to use the _______ to look at the sky.

The path one body in space takes as it revolves around another body; such as that of Earth as it revolves around the Sun. The Earth's is elliptical (oval).

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an artificial body placed in orbit around the Earth , moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication.

A piece of rock or metal from space that enters the earth's atmosphere at a high speed and can be broken down by the mesosphere. (ex. shooting stars)

a spacecraft that travels through space to collect science information. _____ do not have astronauts. _____ send data back to Earth for scientists to study.