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the solar system
| word | defintion |
|---|---|
| solar system | the sun and all of the planets and other bodies that travel aroundit |
| parallax | an aparent shift in the position of an object when viewed from different locations |
| orbit | the path that a body follows as it travels around another body in space |
| perihelion | the point in the orbit of a planet at which the planet is closest to the sun |
| aperihelion | in the orbit of a planet or other body in the solar system,the point farthest from the sun |
| plaet esimal | a small body from which a planet originated in early stages of devolpment of the solar system |
| centripetal froce | the inward froce required to keep a particle or an object moving in a circul path |
| terrestrial planet | one of the highly dense planets nerest to the sun; mercury, venus, mars,and earth |
| astronomical unit | the average distance between earth and the sun; proximately 150 million kilometers; symbol;au |
| gas giant | a planet that has a deep,massive atmoshpere, such as, jupiter,saturn,urans,or neptune |
| Oort cloud | a spherical region that surounds the solar system,that extends from the kupier belt to almost halfway to the nearst star,and that contains billions of comets |
| plantary ring | a disk of matter that encircles a planet and consists of numerous |
| drawf planet | |
| comet | a small body that gives off gas and dust as it passes close to the sun;a typical comet moves in an elliptical orbit around the sun and is made of dust and frozen gasses |
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