CH. 1 & 2
3 THE STARS
4 THE SUN
5 THE PLANETS
6 COMETS/AST'S
100
The motion that the earth makes when it moves on its axis
What is rotation?
100
How far a light-year travels in this length of time.
What is a year?
100
Small dark areas on the sun's surface.
What are sunspots?
100
The plane that looks the brightest from earth.
What is Venus?
100
The most common type of meteorite.
What is stony?
200
The theory that places the earth at the center of the universe.
What is geocentric?
200
The designation for the brightest star in a constellation.
What is alpha?
200
The dark inner portion of a sunspot.
What is the umbra?
200
The planet with the largest diameter.
What is Jupiter?
200
The year that Halley's comet will return.
What is 2061
300
The first person to use the telescope for astronomy.
Who is Galileo
300
The distance in light-years of the nearest star.
What is 4.33?
300
The visible surface of the sun.
What is the photosphere?
300
The planet with the most moons.
What is Saturn?
300
The two planets that most of the asteroids in our solar system are found between.
What is Mars and Jupiter?
400
The month that the vernal equinox occurs.
What is March?
400
The name of the celestial object that might be transitioning from creation to normal matter
What is a quasar
400
Violent eruptions on the surface of the sun.
What are solar flares?
400
The planet you would weight the most on.
What is Jupiter?
400
The comet with the shortes period known at this time.
What is Encke?
500
This and the constellations are what astronomers map the stars with.
What are coordinates.?
500
One bright star rotating around anothe star.
What is an eclipsing binary?
500
The section of the sun where the sun's energy is generated?
What is the core?
500
The planet that rotates at 90 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic.
What is Neptune?
500
The family of asteroids that orbits in the same plane of Jupiter.
What is the Trojans?
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