Final Exam from 2004 - Onondaga Community College
... some other guests and the topic of the new Cassini mission to Saturn comes up. One of the guests asks “Why is Saturn so much larger than the Earth? How did it get so huge?” The daughter, who knows her physics but not her astronomy, concedes that she does not know. The company President turns to you ...
... some other guests and the topic of the new Cassini mission to Saturn comes up. One of the guests asks “Why is Saturn so much larger than the Earth? How did it get so huge?” The daughter, who knows her physics but not her astronomy, concedes that she does not know. The company President turns to you ...
ExamView - Untitled.tst
... 9. What do all of the inner planets have in common? a. They all have rings. b. They all have abundant liquid water. c. They all have many moons. d. They all are small and have rocky surfaces. 10. Copernicus explained that a. the sun is at the center of the system of planets. b. the sun and the plane ...
... 9. What do all of the inner planets have in common? a. They all have rings. b. They all have abundant liquid water. c. They all have many moons. d. They all are small and have rocky surfaces. 10. Copernicus explained that a. the sun is at the center of the system of planets. b. the sun and the plane ...
11.3.1 Grade 6 Standard 4 Unit Test Astronomy Multiple Choice 1
... 1. Tell students they are going to calculate the distance light travels in one year. To learn how to do that, they will start with some practice problems on the board such as: a. If a car is traveling 60 miles per hour, how far does it travel in 4 hours? b. If a car is traveling 60 miles per hour, h ...
... 1. Tell students they are going to calculate the distance light travels in one year. To learn how to do that, they will start with some practice problems on the board such as: a. If a car is traveling 60 miles per hour, how far does it travel in 4 hours? b. If a car is traveling 60 miles per hour, h ...
Day-6
... NEWTON’S FORM OF KEPLER’S 3RD PROBLEMS The first extra-solar planet discovered orbits the star 51 Pegasi. If the semimajor axis is 0.052 AU and the orbital period is 4.23 days, what is the mass of 51 Pegasi? Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, orbits the planet at a distance of 3.548x105 km every ...
... NEWTON’S FORM OF KEPLER’S 3RD PROBLEMS The first extra-solar planet discovered orbits the star 51 Pegasi. If the semimajor axis is 0.052 AU and the orbital period is 4.23 days, what is the mass of 51 Pegasi? Triton, the largest moon of Neptune, orbits the planet at a distance of 3.548x105 km every ...
Slide 1
... Formation of the Solar System Nebular Theory = sun and planets formed from a rotating disk of dust and gases. Planetesimals = small, irregular-shaped bodies that collided and clumped together to form the planets. ...
... Formation of the Solar System Nebular Theory = sun and planets formed from a rotating disk of dust and gases. Planetesimals = small, irregular-shaped bodies that collided and clumped together to form the planets. ...
Theories of the solar system
... The word retrograde applies to the apparent backward motion of a planet. An old encyclopedia of astrology describes this retrograde motion as "…the effect of a slow-moving train as viewed from another train traveling parallel to it but at a more rapid rate, wherein the slower train appears to be mov ...
... The word retrograde applies to the apparent backward motion of a planet. An old encyclopedia of astrology describes this retrograde motion as "…the effect of a slow-moving train as viewed from another train traveling parallel to it but at a more rapid rate, wherein the slower train appears to be mov ...
Our solar system includes the sun and the eight
... Jupiter has high-speed winds and a storm called the ‘Great Red Spot’. This is a storm of swirling gas that has lasted for hundreds of years. Jupiter does not have a solid surface - it is made up of gases. The bands that we see when looking at Jupiter are the tops of clouds high in its atmosphere. Sa ...
... Jupiter has high-speed winds and a storm called the ‘Great Red Spot’. This is a storm of swirling gas that has lasted for hundreds of years. Jupiter does not have a solid surface - it is made up of gases. The bands that we see when looking at Jupiter are the tops of clouds high in its atmosphere. Sa ...
9/29/16 pacing planet distance
... beginning of this line. Now pace off the distances to each planet as shown in the last column of the distance table on the next page. ...
... beginning of this line. Now pace off the distances to each planet as shown in the last column of the distance table on the next page. ...
File - Miss S. Harvey
... rocks, about 5 g/cm3 the name given to the four planets closest to the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars; also known as the inner planets. They Terrestrial planets resemble Earth in that they are small and have densities similar to most rocks, about 5 g/cm3 refers to the non-planetary matter in t ...
... rocks, about 5 g/cm3 the name given to the four planets closest to the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars; also known as the inner planets. They Terrestrial planets resemble Earth in that they are small and have densities similar to most rocks, about 5 g/cm3 refers to the non-planetary matter in t ...
Lifecycle of the stars.
... white dwarf will cool off over trillions of years until it will no longer emit light(which then turns into a black dwarf.) ...
... white dwarf will cool off over trillions of years until it will no longer emit light(which then turns into a black dwarf.) ...
Adventurer Pathfinder
... the sun. These spots are caused by solar flares, or small explosions on the sun. Solar flares shoot energy into space. When the energy hits the earth, it causes magnetic storms. You cannot feel magnetic storms, but you know one has hit the earth when satellite TV and cell phone signals are disrupted ...
... the sun. These spots are caused by solar flares, or small explosions on the sun. Solar flares shoot energy into space. When the energy hits the earth, it causes magnetic storms. You cannot feel magnetic storms, but you know one has hit the earth when satellite TV and cell phone signals are disrupted ...
Colour - Magnitude Diagram for M 45
... 8. In this exercise, you have plotted apparent magnitude V or mv, rather than absolute magnitude, Mv, or Luminosity on the vertical axis. What assumption about the stars in the Pleiades cluster must be made for this to be valid? 9. Results from the European astrometric satellite, HIPPARCOS, gave a d ...
... 8. In this exercise, you have plotted apparent magnitude V or mv, rather than absolute magnitude, Mv, or Luminosity on the vertical axis. What assumption about the stars in the Pleiades cluster must be made for this to be valid? 9. Results from the European astrometric satellite, HIPPARCOS, gave a d ...
DOC - Cool Cosmos
... In our Sun's case, this stage will last for about ten billion years. But eventually, all the nuclear fuel inside the star (mostly hydrogen and helium) gets used up. After that, there's nothing to support gravity, so once again, the star starts collapsing. What happens next depends on how much mass t ...
... In our Sun's case, this stage will last for about ten billion years. But eventually, all the nuclear fuel inside the star (mostly hydrogen and helium) gets used up. After that, there's nothing to support gravity, so once again, the star starts collapsing. What happens next depends on how much mass t ...
GeoDome Notes
... making it much cooler than our Sun (~6000 degrees Kelvin). It is a dying star having used up most of its fuel. It expands and contracts which changes its magnitude (measure of brightness) over a 6 year period. At its largest if placed in our Solar System, it would engulf Jupiter. It is about 650 lig ...
... making it much cooler than our Sun (~6000 degrees Kelvin). It is a dying star having used up most of its fuel. It expands and contracts which changes its magnitude (measure of brightness) over a 6 year period. At its largest if placed in our Solar System, it would engulf Jupiter. It is about 650 lig ...
Name
... A) Because the stars orbit the center of our galaxy B) Because the Moon orbits the Earth C) Because the Earth is rotating on its axis D) Because the Sun orbits the center of our galaxy E) Because the Sun is rotating on its axis 21) In space, a 250 Newton force on a 5 kg body would give that body an ...
... A) Because the stars orbit the center of our galaxy B) Because the Moon orbits the Earth C) Because the Earth is rotating on its axis D) Because the Sun orbits the center of our galaxy E) Because the Sun is rotating on its axis 21) In space, a 250 Newton force on a 5 kg body would give that body an ...
The Planets in the Solar System There are an uncountable number
... When the proto-star has grown massive enough to ignite and form a star, the rest of the disk is removed from the inside outward by photoevaporation, the solar wind, and other similar effects. Thereafter there still may be many proto-planets orbiting the star or each other, but over time many will co ...
... When the proto-star has grown massive enough to ignite and form a star, the rest of the disk is removed from the inside outward by photoevaporation, the solar wind, and other similar effects. Thereafter there still may be many proto-planets orbiting the star or each other, but over time many will co ...
January 2012 - Powerhouse Museum
... Jupiter is easily seen as the brightest object towards the north. Venus remains visible in the early evening as a bright object towards the west. The best time to view the Moon using binoculars or a small telescope is a few days either side of the first quarter Moon on the 1st or 31st. The first qua ...
... Jupiter is easily seen as the brightest object towards the north. Venus remains visible in the early evening as a bright object towards the west. The best time to view the Moon using binoculars or a small telescope is a few days either side of the first quarter Moon on the 1st or 31st. The first qua ...
Figures I through VII in Section 1 on the following sheet
... PART A: Figures I through VII on the following sheet are spectra of some Type V stars. List them in order of decreasing temperature (_1_). List them in order of decreasing strength of their Hydrogen lines (_2_). Which spectrum would most likely have been produced by star B from figure X (_3_)? Of st ...
... PART A: Figures I through VII on the following sheet are spectra of some Type V stars. List them in order of decreasing temperature (_1_). List them in order of decreasing strength of their Hydrogen lines (_2_). Which spectrum would most likely have been produced by star B from figure X (_3_)? Of st ...
main sequence star
... • Small mass stars will collapse into white dwarfs after being red giants. • The outer gases are lost, which allows us to see the core of the star. The white dwarf is very dense and hot. The emit (release) less light than they did when they were stars. • As these white dwarfs cool they become fainte ...
... • Small mass stars will collapse into white dwarfs after being red giants. • The outer gases are lost, which allows us to see the core of the star. The white dwarf is very dense and hot. The emit (release) less light than they did when they were stars. • As these white dwarfs cool they become fainte ...
Aquarius (constellation)
Aquarius is a constellation of the zodiac, situated between Capricornus and Pisces. Its name is Latin for ""water-carrier"" or ""cup-carrier"", and its symbol is 20px (Unicode ♒), a representation of water.Aquarius is one of the oldest of the recognized constellations along the zodiac (the sun's apparent path). It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century AD astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations. It is found in a region often called the Sea due to its profusion of constellations with watery associations such as Cetus the whale, Pisces the fish, and Eridanus the river.