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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4468. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar System, Solar System Models And Concepts

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The phase of a body in the solar system when some but less than half of its sunlit side is visible. The only objects to show crescent phases to observers on the Earth are those that can pass between the Earth and the Sun: the inferior planets, Mercury and Venus, and the Moon. However, objects outside the Earth's orbit have been imaged in the crescent phase by spacecraft....

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