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The reason Jupiter is so massive has to do with its... |
Intense gravity and high escape velocity. |
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Large dark lowlands on the moon's surface named by Galileo |
Maria |
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Have to use radar to map surface because of clouds |
Venus |
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This moon of Jupiter displayed volcanic eruptions of sulfur |
Io |
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Highest average surface temperature |
Venus |
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The great dark spot |
Neptune |
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Meteor showers are often a result of Earth crossing paths with ancient |
Comets |
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Part of sun that pushes Comets' tails away |
Solar wind |
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Asteroid belt is located between orbits of... |
Mars and Jupiter |
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Asteroids found within the orbit of Jupiter and usually found within 60 degrees of planet |
Trogun Asteroids |
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Central solid body of comet is known as |
Nucleus |
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Blue tail of comet |
Ion tail |
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Long period comet originates in |
Ort Cloud |
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Colorful auroras found in the high latitudes on Earth are a result of the Earth's |
Magnetosphere |
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Belts of highly charged particles surrounding Earth |
Van Allen Belts |
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Earliest theory of formation of solar system |
Nebular theory |
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Process of hot bubbles of air rising from a hot surface |
convection |
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Fastest rotating planet |
Jupiter |
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Comet that smashed into Jupiter |
Shoemaker Levy |
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Sideways planet |
Uranus |
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Water planet |
Earth |
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Has moon Charon |
Pluto |
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Was hit most recently by a comet |
Jupiter |
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Most elliptical orbit |
Venus |
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Planetary moon is thought to contain a huge ocean of liquid water beneath its surace |
Europa |
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Moon with coldest known temperature in solar system |
Triton |
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The idea that Earth is the center of the solar system is known as |
The geocentric system |
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To explain retrograde motion, this ancient astronomer created epicycles to incorrectly explain the phenomenon. |
Ptolemy |
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Holding your finger in front of your eye |
Parallax |
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Average distance from sun to the Earth is |
Both astronomical unit and 93 million miles. |
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It takes 365 days to go around the Sun. This is an example of |
revolution |
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First day of spring is |
Vernal equinox |
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( ) day lasts 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds |
Sidereal |
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In 13,000 years, the North star will no longer be Polaris, this is because |
Procession |
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( ) month lasts 27 and 1/3 days |
Sidereal |
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Light is made up of waves and particles |
Photons |
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( ) science studies light and it's properties |
Spectroscopy |
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Bright line spectrum equals |
Emission Spectrum |
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A ( ) telescope uses a mirror versus a lens to observe the heavens |
Reflecting |
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Sir Isaac Newton couldn't stand the flaw in refracting telescopes. This troublesome effect of refractors... |
Chromatic Aberration |
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Biggest telescopes |
Radio |
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Electromagnetic spectrum is made up of many waves. Shortest equals |
Gamma |
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Eye piece of telescope changes what property |
Magnifying power |
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2 forms of electromagnetic radiation that penetrate earths atmosphere |
Radiation and visible light |
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High energy astronomers study |
X Rays and Gamma rays |
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"Hotter the object, shorter its wavelength" |
Weins' law |
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Which visible light has the highest energy |
Violet |
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If object is moving toward you, what effect do you observe in the spectrum of that object? |
It appears blue-shifted |
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The most important property of an optical telescope is |
Light gathering power |
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Putting several radio telescopes together to increase the angular resolution is known as |
interferometry |
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CCD equals |
Charge coupled device
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Geometric model is named after |
Claudius Ptolemy |
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Proposed three laws of planetary motion |
Johannes Kepler |
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Kept complex data on the planets |
Tycho Brahe |
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found the sun spots |
Galileo |
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First estimated size of Earth |
Eratosthenes |
