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Solar flares

An explosive places of energy that comes from the sun and that it’s associated with magnetic disturbance of the sun surface-most violent

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E=cm²

E=energy m=mass c=speed of light

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Corona

The outermost layer of the suns atmosphere

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Nuclear fusion

The process by which nuclear small atom combine the form a new more massive, nuclei releases energy

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Lunar surfaces

Craters,Rilles, ridges, lunar rocks

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Three types of meteoroids

Stony, iron, stony iron

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What makes up 75% of the sun

Hydrogen

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What causes northern lights

Magnetosphere

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Asteroids

A small rocky object that orbits the sun, most eyes are located in the band between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

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Comets

A small body of rock, ice and cosmic dust follows an elliptical orbit around the sun, and that gives off gas and dust in the form of a tail as it passes close to the sun

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Kuiper belt

A region of the solar system that starts to be beyond the orbit of Neptune, and that contains store, pendants, and other small buddies made mostly of ice

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Oort Cloud

a spherical region that surrounds the solar system that extends from the kuiper built to almost halfway to the nearest store, and that contains billions of comments

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Meteoroids

A relative small rocky body that travels through space

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Meteors

A bright streak of light that results when a meteorite burns up in the earths atmosphere

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Meteorites

That do not burn up in earth atmosphere, but fall to earth surface

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sunspots

A dark area of the photo sphere of the sun that is cooler than the surrounding areas in that has a strong magnetic field

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