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 time it takes to complete one rotation
what is 24 hours?
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 time it takes to complete one revolution
What is 365 days?
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 for this.
What is Earth's 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?
The two things change throughout the year and provide the best evidence of Earth's revolution.
What are the change of seasons and change of 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 showing a red shift proves this about our galaxies
What is the universe expanding/ galaxies are moving away?
This is the rate of rotation and rate of revolution.
What is 15o per hour for rotation and
1o per day for revolution?