* Question 1 0 out of 1 points | | | 1. After a new moon‚ about how long is it until a 1st quarter moon? Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | B. Two weeks | Correct Answer: | C. A week | | | | | * Question 2 0 out of 1 points | | | 2. If there is a full moon visible from Paris one evening‚ twelve hours later in Australia there will be a _________ visible. Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | B. New moon. | Correct Answer: | A. Full moon. | | | | |
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translates to “something high up” or “in the air”. It was used to describe a celestial phenomenon known as a meteor. In the late 19th century‚ astronomers derived the word meteorite to describe a meteor that hits earth. Meteorites hurl down our planet as streaks of light. Nowadays‚ people generally use the term “falling star” or “shooting star”. People who are lucky enough to witness a meteorite falling from the sky describe it as a ball of fire which fades from sight at a wink. If one is lucky
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center of their rotation Obliquity - tilt of a planet’s axis Ecliptic - a plane in space defined by Earth’s orbit around the Sun; plane by which the orbit of all other planets in the solar system are compared Inclination - angle between plane of orbit and ecliptic plane Transit - passing of object in front of star‚ transit of planets can only occur on line of nodes; transit of Venus will occur next year and will not occur again until 2117 Prograde - Normal orbital motion‚ right hand rule (counterclockwise)
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other stars in existence in our universe‚ and most of those stars have satellites‚ and those satellites have satellites. There are literally hundreds of trillions‚ if not more‚ planets or planet-sized satellites orbiting stars. To think that none of these could have life on them is just to be naive. If it happened to our planet‚ out of hundreds of trillions of them out there‚ it can happen to another‚ and another. We can’t be alone; distant‚ maybe‚ but alone is just too far-fetched a theory. Belief
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because the planet we lived in got destroyed. We had no chance but to invade earth. We are sorry for causing so much trouble.” Then Zack had a idea‚ he told all the students that‚” What if we lied to the police that their robot had malfunctioned and had went berserk on earth? We can also help them by telling them the location of another solar system with a planet that is similar to earth!” Everyone liked the idea and they lied to the police and safely relocated the aliens to another planet called
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Surya is the important ancient Hindu Solar God. There are many hymns found in the Rig Veda which mention or honor Surya. The Rig Veda is a collection of more than a thousand hymns written between 1200 and 900 B.C. by people known as Aryans‚ who came to Afghanistan‚ Pakistan‚ and India from the Eurasian steppes to the north. The Rig Veda is one of the earliest known writings written in any Indo-European language. Hymn I.50 speaks to the Sun. (This passage is from The RigVeda; an anthology‚ a translation
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Nikhil Jain Professor Kornreich Astronomy 1105 10 July 2015 Analyzing the Science of Science Fiction As our knowledge of the universe expands‚ so does our imagination. Today’s science fiction movies‚ such as Interstellar‚ are based on new discoveries and research that older movies‚ such as 2001: A Space Odyssey‚ did not have. However‚ both movies stayed true to science‚ etc My goal in this paper is to discuss the accuracy of the physics and astronomy in Interstellar‚ and compare it to 2001: A Space
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few other elements and rocks. Around five billion years this cloud of materials began to spin and contract together into a disk shape under their own gravitational forces. The particles started combined together‚ protoplanets‚ to eventually form planets. A great mass of the material eventually began to form together‚ protosun‚ and make up the sun. I agree with the Solar Nebular Hypothesis. I am a person that likes to base my opinions scientifically. Evidence wise this theory makes more sense
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did not agree with Ptolemy and his name was Nicholas Copernicus‚ he believed in a heliocentric system which pretty much means the sun is at the center of everything. Galileo Galilee and Johannes Kepler shortly have noticed other moons of many other planets in the system that proved Copernicus’ theory to be
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there‚ in fact‚ a manned mission to Mars would be useful to explore Mars and get information about the red planet. We should go to Mars because according to Gangle‚ “If Mars is dead now‚ but was once alive‚ understanding how Mars died may give us a crucial understanding of how close we are coming to killing the Earth” (qtd. in Joulwan‚ par.4). The mission helps us know more about our planet. Also‚ a manned mission to Mars can explore Mars for resources‚ for example‚ energy‚ minerals and much more
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