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  1. corona
    one or more circles of light seen around a luminous object
  2. crater
    a bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano
  3. ebbtide
    the tide while water is flowing out
  4. elliptical
    rounded like an egg
  5. equinox
    when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator
  6. flood tide
    the occurrence of incoming water
  7. lunar eclipse
    when the earth interrupts light shining on the moon
  8. lunar month
    the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)
  9. maria
    a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon
  10. meteor
    a small, solid space object that has entered Earth's atmosphere
  11. neap tide
    a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon
  12. orbit
    the path of a celestial body in its revolution about another
  13. partial eclipse
    an eclipse in which the eclipsed body is only partially obscured
  14. penumbra
    a region of light shadow around the darkest part of a shadow
  15. revolve
    turn on or around an axis or a center
  16. rotate
    turn on or around an axis or a center
  17. solar eclipse
    when the moon interrupts light from the sun
  18. solstice
    when the sun is at its greatest distance from the equator
  19. tide
    the periodic rise and fall of the sea level
  20. total eclipse
    an eclipse as seen from a place where the eclipsed body is completely obscured
  21. umbra
    a region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light
Created on Mon Dec 10 11:15:44 EST 2012 (updated Sun Jan 06 21:53:31 EST 2013)

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