Solar system vocabulary

a bright shinning ball of gas

• comet

• galaxy

• star

• universe

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a chunck of space rock that burns as it travels throught earth's atmosphere

• meteor

• asteroid belt

• astronasut

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a large group of star. gas, and dust held together by gravity

• satellite

• orbit

• telescope

• galaxy

a large round object that orbit a star

• rocket

• constellation

• planet

• comet

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a person who studies space

• astronaut

• astronomer

• atmosphere

• asteroid belt

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a person who travels into space

• astronomer

• gravity

• astronaut

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a powerful spacecraft that lifts people and equipment into space

• rocket

• satellite

• star

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a piece of equiment that makes far away object appear closer

• rocket

• telescope

• satellite

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a regular repeating path around another object in space

• orbit

• planet

• meteor

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a space object made up of icy gasses,rocks, and dust

• universe

• comet

• asteroid belt

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