Intro to Earth Science Vocab Starter NY 3 (Astronomy) PART 3

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Universe

Everything that exists.

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Revolution

The amount of time to go once around the sun.

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Rotation

Spinning on an axis.

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Celestial object

Anything outside Earth’s atmosphere.

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Focus

A fixed point.

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Altitude

The angular distance of a celestial object about the horizon.

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Eccentricity

Out of roundness.

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Tides

Rising and falling of the oceans caused by the moon’s gravitational attraction to the earth