Astronomy
This motion gives a planet night and day
What is the rotation of the Earth?
Measurement of the ovalness of an ellipse
What is Eccentricity?
This is the luminosity of the Sun
What is one?
This is the age of our Solar System
What is 4.6 billion years old ?
This is the rate of rotation for Earth.
What is 15o per hour?
This motion gives a planet it's year
What is revolution?
The force that causes a planet to speed up as it gets closer to the Sun
What is gravity?
This is the eccentricity of Earth
What is 0.017?
A super massive star becomes this at the end of it's life
What is a black hole or neutron star?
This is the rate of Revolution of Earth.
What is 1o per day?
These are all of the Terrestrial planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?
The eccentricity of this is zero
What is a circle?
This planet has the lowest eccentricity
What is venus?
This event occurred approximately 13.7 billion years ago that lead to the formation of Earth and the Universe
What is the Big Bang?
The Foucault Pendulum and Coriolis Effect are the best evidence of this Earth motion.
What is rotation?
This is located between Mars and Jupiter
What is the Asteroid Belt?
This is the amount of decimal places we round eccentricity to
What are 3 decimal places?
This planet has the most elliptical orbital
What is Mercury?
This was discovered throughout the Universe and provided evidence of the Big Bang
What is cosmic background radiation?
These two changes throughout the year prove that Earth is revolving around the Sun.
What are the change in seasons and the change in constellations?
The formation of heavier elements from lighter elements inside a star.
What is Nuclear Fusion?
When the distance between foci increases, the eccentricity does this
What is increase?
These 2 planets have the most similar shaped orbits
What are Jupiter and Uranus?
The Doppler Effect of most galaxies show a red shift and prove this.
What is the universe is expanding?
If we photograph a star trail across the night sky and measure the trail to be 60o, this is how long the camera was left on.
What is 4 hours?