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nova
What is when a star suddenly flares up to many times its original brightness?
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Kepler
Who wrote the 3 laws of planetary motion?
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Venus
What is the only planet on which a day is longer than a year?
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the Great Red Spot
What is a gigantic anticyclone 3 times as wide as the earth?
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Pluto
What is the frozen planet?
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geocentric
What is earth-centered?
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an astromical unit
What is the distance between the earth and the sun?
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Earth's twin
What is Venus?
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Saturn
What planet is known for its rings?
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lunar month
What is the time it takes the moon to make a full circle?
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pantheism
What is the belief that God and nature are one?
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Isaac Newton
Who developed the law of gravity?
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the hottest planet
What is Venus?
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Uranus
What planet moves sideways?
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Hailey's Comet
What is the name of the comet Edmund Hailey studied?
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heliocentric
What is sun-centered?
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another name for the planets
What are "the wanderers"?
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Mars
What is "the red planet"?
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Neptune
What is the blue planet?
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meteorite
What is a meteor that lands on the earth's surface called?
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Galileo
Who built an improved version of the telescope?
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Mercury
What is the speediest planet?
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Jupiter
What is the largest planet?
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Triton
What is Neptune's largest moon?
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visible spectrum
What are all the colors of the rainbow called?