month | Correct Answer: | C. The ecliptic crosses the celestial equator | | | | | * Question 6 1 out of 1 points | | | 6. Why do the constellations that are visible in the sky at night change with the seasons? Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | D. Because the Earth revolves around the Sun | Correct Answer: | D. Because the Earth revolves around the Sun | | | | | * Question 7 1 out of 1 points | | | 7. What is the ecliptic? Answer | | | | | Selected
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Aryabhata (IAST: Āryabhaṭa; Sanskrit: आर्यभटः) (476–550 CE) was the first in the line of great mathematician-astronomers from the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy. His most famous works are the Aryabhatiya (499 CE‚ when he was 23 years old) and the Arya-siddhanta. Biography Name While there is a tendency to misspell his name as "Aryabhatta" by analogy with other names having the "bhatta" suffix‚ his name is properly spelled Aryabhata: every astronomical text spells
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1. Brown Dwarfs A brown dwarf is a celestial body that has never quite become a star. A typical brown dwarf has a mass that is 8 percent or less than that of the Sun. The mass of a brown dwarf is too small to generate the internal temperatures capable of igniting the nuclear burning of hydrogen to release energy and light. A brown dwarf contracts at a steady rate‚ and after it has contracted as much as possible‚ a process that takes about 1 million years‚ it begins to cool off. Its emission of
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Aryabhatta is the first of the great astronomers of the classical age of India. He was born in Kerala‚ South India in 476 AD but later lived in Kusumapura‚ which his commentator Bhaskara I (629 AD) identifies with pataliputra (modern Patna) in Bihar. His first name “Arya” is hardly a south Indian name while “Bhatt” (or Bhatta) is a typical north Indian name even found today specially among the trader community. Aryabhatta studied at the University of Nalanda. One of his major works was Aryabhatiya
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majority of the system’s mass (well over 99%) is in the Sun. Of the many objects that orbit the Sun‚ most of the mass is contained within eight relatively solitary planets whose orbits are almost circular and lie within a nearly flat disc called the ecliptic plane. The four smaller inner planets‚ Mercury‚ Venus‚ Earth and Mars‚ also called the terrestrial planets‚ are primarily composed of rock and metal. The four outer planets‚ the gas giants‚ are substantially more massive than the terrestrials. The
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Konrad GEOG 111 Name__________________________________ Fall 2014 TEST 1 - 19 September 2014 Instructions: Fill out your name and PID number on the top left portion of the scantron sheet. (PID goes where it says identification number). Answer the questions on the test by darkening the circle containing the correct numbered response for each question. Double check to make sure that the question numbers on the test corresponds with those on the scantron sheet. Be sure to use a #2 pencil
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ICE The book I chose to read is Frozen Earth: Explaining the Ice Age by R. V. Fodor‚ the associate Professor of Geology at North Carolina State University. It presents the recent discoveries and history of the ice age in an easy-understanding and accessible way. He first begins with a little background of ice ages. He then talks about glaciers and how they form and act. Then he talks about the different theories of how this happened. He concludes with speaking of the future and the climate
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The Kuiper Belt The Kuiper Belt is a thick ecliptic band which contains over 200 million small‚ icy objects. These objects‚ known as the Kuiper Belt Objects or trans- Neptunians‚ were discovered in 1992 by Jewitt and Lu. The first Kuiper Belt Object discovered in 1992‚ is QB1 (1992) and is 150 miles wide. The Kuiper Belt is about 30 AU to 50 AU away from the Sun. The Kuiper Belt is very important because of two specific things; the first being‚ Kuiper Belt Objects are remnants from the earliest
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3.3. Moons of Uranus 3.3.1 Introduction Uranus‚ the seventh planet of the Solar System‚ has 27 known moons. Uranus’s moons are divided into three groups: thirteen inner moons‚ five major moons‚ and nine irregular moons. The inner moons are small dark bodies that share common properties and origins with the Uranus’s rings‚ the five major moons (Miranda‚ Ariel‚ Umbriel‚ Titania‚ and Oberon) are massive enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium. They range in diameter from 472 km for Miranda
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Final Exam - Review Guide Test Date: Tuesday‚ May 7th (8:00-10:00 pm) Format: Multiple choice. Please bring a small scantron form. Blue books will not be needed. The final exam will be composed of two sections: Section 1: All lecture material since the 2nd test Text chapters: 7 (clouds and fog)‚ 8‚ 9 Section 2: Cumulative portion covering material covered up to test 2‚ includes only material related to the terms/concepts listed in this section. Section 1 – New Material ATMOSPHERIC
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