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Astronomy Vocabulary

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Jessie's vocab for astronomy

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the force that pulls objects toward each other
The path of an object as it revolves around another object in space.
the tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion
spinning of Earth on its imaginary axis, which takes about 24 hours to complete, and causes day and night to occur
any of the nine celestial bodies in our solar system that revolve around the sun- Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto (a dwarf planet)
any natural body that revolves around a planet
sun, planets, and all the other objects that revolve around the sun
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