Unit 1
In the cosmic calendar, what month do humans appear?
What is December?
Kepler's Second Law is called The Law of
What is Equal Areas
This layer indirectly transfers heat from the core of the Sun.
What is the convective layer?
The classification for small icy bodies
what is a comet
This planet was discovered via mathematical inference based on perturbations in a neighboring planet's orbit.
What is Neptune?
The coordinates used to map locations on the night sky are right ascension and
what is declination?
The natural law describing change in intensity of light and gravity with distance
What is the Inverse Square Law
This process converts Hydrogen to Helium in the stellar interior
What is the proton proton chain?
The process which influences planetary location, our understanding of which was majorly shaped by the discovery of hot Jupiter exoplanets.
What is planetary migration
The name for the phenomenon we observe where the spectral lines from an object will change as a result of the object’s motion toward or away from us
What is the Doppler Effect?
The more common type of eclipse (general)
What is a lunar eclipse?
An ideal type of radiating body used to approximate the emission of stars
What is a blackbody
Detection of this nearly massless particle confirmed our understanding of stellar interiors
what is a neutrino
The location of the majority of long period comets
What is the Oort Cloud?
Newton's first law is call the law of
What is inertia?
Used in Ptolemy's geocentric model to explain retrograde motion
What are epicycles?
what is a plane?
This fundamental force holds atomic nuclei together
What is the strong nuclear force
The mission which tested asteroid deflection strategies
What is DART?
The apparent path of the Sun across the night sky
What is the ecliptic?
The type of stars which never set
What are circumpolar?
The laser guided technique to gauge atmospheric turbulence
What is adaptive optics
This field of study looks at pulsations in the stellar interior, using them to probe the overall structure.
What is helioseismology?
The classification of objects such as Ceres, Vesta, Pallas
The criteria for planetary classification which Pluto does not meet.
What is "clearing the area around it's orbit"?