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48 Cards in this Set
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Inner Planets
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Mercury-Venus-Earth-Mars
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Outer Planets
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Jupiter-Saturn-Uranus-Neptune
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Three Things That Made Planet
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1. Enough Mass to creat sphere
2. It orbits a star 3. Clears it path in orbit |
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Triangulation
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A method of indirectly measuring something by creating an imaginary triangle between the observer and an object whose distance away is estimated, this is used by the baseline being six months apart.
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Elliptical
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H-R diagrams heat decrease which way, and what is the vertical on the diagram for.
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the decrease the farther away from the vertical they are. turning from blue to red.
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Spectroscope
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used for the composition of stars. colors and lines put together.
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blue shifted.
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coming towards you, and getting hotter.
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red shifted.
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going away from you and getting cooler
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how many constellations are there?
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88
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asterism
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unofficial or incomplete constellation, part of a constellation
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galaxies
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a group of star, planets, and other matter that grow together in the universe.
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life of sunlike or average star
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stellar nebula, sunlike star, redgiant, planetaria nebula, white dwarf, black dwarf
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life of massive star
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stella nebula, massive star, red supergiant, supernova, neutron star or blackhole
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Series of meteroids
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Meteroids in space, Meteor in atmosphere, Meterorite when it hits the earth.
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Newtons 3rd law
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you have to account for all the energy of gravity. and create enough thrust to go upwards against gravity.
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know three parts of rockets
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1. structure
2. payload 3. fuel |
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Hazards
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extreme temp, no air, no water, vacuum, no pressure, the stress of being in cramped spaces, micro gravity may make heart, bones, muscles weak
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solar sails/ ion drive
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????
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Canada's Contributions
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Third satellite in space - allouette 1, canadarm and candaarm 2
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GPS
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global positioning devices, uses satellites
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Geosynchronous
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Follows earth as it orbits as to only cover on part of the earth
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Polar Orbitting
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Orbits around the earths poles
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AB: native americans
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blanket with holes in it, that sat on a pole which sat on stone ribs (a womens) chest
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AB: stonehedge
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used to mark the solstices
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Solsitices
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Summer - longest day of the year. june 21
Winter - shortest day of the year. dec 21 |
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Equinoxes
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Vernal and Autumnal, March and Sept 21
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AB: Pyramids
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were said to line up with some stars
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AB: Chichen Itza
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Celebrated Solstices
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Zenith
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90 degrees about the horizon
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Altitude
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the degrees about the horizon something is
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Azimuth
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the compass heading
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Altitude + Azimuth = ?
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where something is in the night sky
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7 tools throughout history used to see the night sky
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compass, sundial, markhet, quadrant, cross staff, space probe, astrolabe,
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Merkhet
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Quadrant
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Altitude
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Astrolabe
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Cross Staff
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measured distances between objects in the sky
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sundial
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used to tell time by shadows
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compass
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to show the direction
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Inventor of refracting telescope
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huns lippershey
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Interferometry
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the connection of many telescopes to create a better image quality
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Radio telescopes detect
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all forms of EMR
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refracting telescopes use lens or mirrors
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lens
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reflecting telescopes use lens or mirrors
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mirrors
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what are the mirrors called in a reflecting telescope
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primary mirror and secondary mirror
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segmented mirror
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a mirror made out of a whole bunch of mirrors
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what are the lens calle in a refracting telescope
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ocular lens, objective lens.
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