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[[Image:Ice cap.jpg|thumb|right|250px|This is an aerial image of the ice cap on Ellesmere Island, Canada. Credit: National Snow and Ice Data Center.]]
'''Earth''' is a rocky astronomical object, a liquid object, a gaseous object, and a plasma object.
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==Astronomy==
[[Image:Greenland 42.74746W 71.57394N.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Satellite composite image shows the ice sheet of Greenland. Credit: NASA.]]
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'''Def.''' a "bowl shape or amphitheater usually sculpted out of the mountain terrain by a ... glacier"<ref name=Beitler/> is called a '''cirque'''.

The image at the right shows a cirque "on Cirque Mountain in the Torngat Mountains, Newfoundland, Canada."<ref name=Beitler/>
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==Meteors==
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[[Image:Meteor burst.jpg|thumb|right|250px|This picture is of the Alpha-Monocerotid meteor outburst in 1995. It is a timed exposure where the meteors have actually occurred several seconds to several minutes apart. Credit: NASA Ames Research Center/S. Molau and P. Jenniskens.]]
[[Image:Clouds and the mountain.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Here at Réunion is an example that some of those white puffy objects in the sky may be quite close by. Credit: [[commons:User:B.navez|B.navez]].]]
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