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The solar system: planets, moons and small bodies

Earth as a planet and the worlds around it — Venus, Mars, the giant planets, rings and moons — then craters and impacts, comets, asteroids, meteorites and the origin of the system.

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  • Front accretion
    Back the gradual accumulation of mass, as by a planet forming from colliding particles in the solar nebula
  • Front asteroid
    Back a stony or metallic object orbiting the Sun that is smaller than a planet but that shows no evidence of an atmosphere or of other types of activity associated with comets
  • Front basalt
    Back igneous rock produced by the cooling of lava; makes up most of Earth’s oceanic crust and is found on other planets that have experienced extensive volcanic activity
  • Front comet
    Back a small body of icy and dusty matter that revolves about the Sun; when a comet comes near the Sun, some of its material vaporizes, forming a large head of tenuous gas and often a tail
  • Front core
    Back the central part of the planet; consists of higher density material

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