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ASTRONOMY VOCABULARY

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The Astronomy Dictionary

 

       

Part I  Part II

 1.                      asteroid

 23.                  Earth

2.                      comet 24.                  Sun
3.                      constellation 25.                  Solar System

 4.                      universe

26.                  Mercury
5.                      eclipse 27.                  Jupiter
6.                      galaxy

 28.                  Milky Way

7.                      solstice 29.                  Copernicus, Nicholas
8.                      gravity 30.                  Mars
9.                      inertia 31.                  Galileo  Galilei
10.                  radiation 32.                  Neptune
11.                  latitude 33.                  Andromeda
12.                  light-year

 34.                  Pluto

13.                  longitude 35.                  Proxima Centauri
14.                  telescope 36.                  Saturn
15.                  observatory 37.                  Uranus
16.                  tide 38.                  Venus
17.                  meteoroid

 39.                  Luna

 18.                  satellite

40.                  Hale-Bopp
19.                  moon 41.                  Halley's Comet
20.                  nebula 42.                  Shoemaker-Levy 9
21.                  star 43.                  Main Belt
22.                  nova 44.                  Chicxulub Crater
  45.                  Meteor Crater