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Vocabulary Earth Science Chapter 27
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| Asteroid | A soild, rocklike mass that revolves around the sun |
| Comet | A mass of rock, ice, dust, and gas traveling around the sun. |
| Dwarf planet | A celestial body that orbits the sun and is large enough to assume a nearly round shape having a smaller mass than standard planets. |
| Inner planets | The four planets nearest to the sun( mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars) seperated from outer planets by an astroid belt. |
| Meteor | The light made by a meteroid as it passes through Earth's atmosphere. |
| Meteorite | The part of a large meteroid that suvives the trip through the atmosphere and hits Earth's surface. |
| Meteor shower | A large number of meteors entering and burning up in the atmosphere. |
| Outer planets | The five planets farthest from the sun ( Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) seperated from the inner planets by an astroid belt. |
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