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  1. moon
  2. gibbous/crescent
  3. uranus- planet William Herschel discovered in 1781
  4. ceres- largest body in the asteroid belt, nearest dwarf planet to the sun
  5. vesta- brightest asteroid (as seen from Earth), fourth asteroid to be discovered
  6. centaur- body with an orbit between those of Jupiter and Neptune
  7. trojan- asteroid that hangs out in the L5 Lagrange point of Jupiter's orbit
  8. dawn- spacecraft that visited Ceres in 2015
  9. juno- asteroid discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding in 1804
  10. Piazzi- Italian priest who discovered Ceres in 1801
  11. dactyl- name of the moon that orbits the asteroid Ida
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  13. rigel- massive blue supergiant in Orion's foot
  14. thuban- star in the constellation Draconis that used to be the north pole star, five thousand years ago
  15.  
  16. altair- star in Aquila that's spinning almost fast enough to tear itself apart
  17. betelgeuse- red giant in Orion's shoulder
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  19. hanuman- Rama's devoted monkey companion in the Ramayana.
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  21. mercury- planet that orbits the sun once every 88 days, planet with the smallest axial tilt
  22. corona- aura of plasma that surrounds the sun
  23. core- part of the sun where nuclear fusion takes place
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  25. helium- element that's forged from two hydrogen atoms during nuclear fusion
  26. solar maximum- high point in the sun's 11-year cycle of activity
  27. venus- planet where you might worry about sulfuric acid storms wrecking your paint job
  28. declination- term for the angle of an object north or south of the celestial equator
  29. zenith- term for the point in the sky directly above an observer's head
  30. inclination- term for the degree of tilt of an orbit from its reference plane
  31. perihelion- point in a Solar System body's orbit when it comes closest to the sun
  32. aphelion- point in a Solar System body's orbit when it is farthest from the sun
  33. right ascension
  34. retrograde- orbit in the opposite direction of the spin of the body being orbited 
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  36. au- average distance between the Earth and the Sun
  37. lockyer- astronomer who discovered helium by observing the Sun
  38. red giant- look up the kind of star that the Sun will eventually become
  39. mars- largest dust storms in the Solar System
  40.  
  41. phobos- inner moon
  42. stickney- largest crater on Phobos
  43. limtoc- large crater in the middle of Stickney
  44. sojourner- rover that landed on Mars in 1997
  45. curiosity- rover that landed on Mars in 2012
  46. mount sharp- mountain that Curiosity landed next to
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  48. deimos- outer moon
  49. pluto- trans-Neptunian object that Neil deGrasse Tyson built a career out of murdering, place in the Solar System where you can find Cthulhu Macula
  50. kuiper belt- disc of small bodies that lie outside the orbit of Neptune
  51. hydra- Pluto's second-largest moon
  52. orcus- minor planet (perhaps a dwarf planet) discovered by Michael Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz in 2004
  53. vanth- name of Orcus's moon
  54. tombaugh- astronomer who discovered Pluto
  55.  
  56. johannes kepler
  57. enceladus- body in the Solar System with the highest albedo
  58. io- moon of Jupiter that helped Ole Rømer calculate the speed of 
  59. triton- moon of Neptune with an almost perfectly circular orbit
  60. callisto- moon with giant craters named Valhalla and Asgard
  61. miranda- moon where Verona Rupes, the Solar System's largest cliff, is found
  62. umbriel- darkest, spookiest moon of Uranus
  63. titan- moon of Saturn with a thick nitrogen-rich atmosphere
  64. iapetus- look up the moon of Saturn that features a large dark area named Cassini Regio
  65. ganymede- largest moon
  66. europa- smoothest moon
  67. sagittarius- constellation that contains the center of the Milky Way
  68. cancer- constellation that contains M44, the "Beehive Cluster
  69. centaurus- constellation that contains the Southern Cross, constellation that contains the nearest star to the Solar System
  70. taurus- constellation that contains the Crab Nebula
  71. ursa minor- constellation that contains the North Star
  72. aquarius- constellation that contains TRAPPIST-1 and its exoplanets
  73. andromeda- constellation that contains the andromeda
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