Physics, Math, the Universe
What is a refractor?
The coordinate system used to locate objects on the sky, relative to the celestial sphere using right ascension and this other coordinate
What is declination?
Uranus and Neptune are called “”, in contrast to their larger gas giant siblings.
What is "Ice giants"
Planet with a 3:2 orbital resonance
What is Mercury?
After leaving the core, photons first enter this region of the Sun.
What is the radiative zone?
In scientific notation, the number 3,458,000,870 would be expressed as 3.458000870 * 10 to the ____
WHat is the ninth.
The two objects which are always 90 degrees apart on the celestial sphere are the North Celestial pole and this location
Comets orbits are highly _____________, taking them from the Sun to near the Oort Cloud (your answer should be a vocabulary word use to describe ellipses).
What is eccentric
The terrestial planet with the thickest atmosphere
What is Venus?
What is biosignatures?
Gravity and light reduce strength with the square of the distance, a phenomenon known as __________
What is the inverse square law?
In the northern Hemisphere, the sky appears to rotate around the _____, near where Polaris is located
What is the North Celestial Pole?
Planets form out of a rotating cloud of gas and dust called a ____________.
What is a protoplanetary disk?
Only planet with 2 moons
What is Mars?
The second most common exoplanet detection methods measures the ______ of the star.
An electron moves from energy level 5 to energy level 7. A photon of energy 2 is
The altitude of the North Celestial Pole is the same as what attribute of your location on Earth.
What is your latitude
The largest increase in impact energy would be caused by increasing the _______.
what is the velocity
Rings were discovered through stellar occultation
What is Uranus?
_____________ refers to when a small piece of the corona is pinched off of the Sun, and ejected to the Earth.
What is a Coronal Mass Ejection?
Using Kepler’s Laws, calculate the orbital period of a planet which has a semi major axis of 4 AU
What is 8 years?
This population of stars never rises or sets.
What is circumpolar stars
The most common type of asteroid is _______ (composition)
What is carbonaceous?
_____’s moon Triton is likely a captured Kuiper Belt Object.
What is Neptune?
The proton-proton chain begins with two protons and ends with a molecule of _______ (you must include the atomic mass number ie Carbon-12).
Helium 4