Potpourri
This is the study of the origins of the universe.
What is cosmology?
What are Mars and Jupiter.
This structure give rise to stars.
What are nebula?
This is the point in an orbit where the planet is closest to it's star.
What is perihelion?
This was the first person to step on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
This is this is a description of what a light year is.
What is the distance light travels in a year?
This is what comets are made of.
What is ice and dusty rock?
This type of star is small and hot.
What are dwarf stars?
What is aphelion?
This set of missions sent pairs of astronauts into orbit.
What is Gemini?
This person developed the heliocentric model.
This person found evidence for the heliocentric model.
This person improved the heliocentric model to make it more accurate.
Who are: Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler ?
This is the process by which solar systems form.
What is accretion?
This is the order of bodies during a solar eclipse.
What is sun --- moon --- earth?
This is a statement of Kepler's 3rd law.
What is 'the further a planet is from it's start the longer it takes to orbit around it' ?
This was earth's first artificial satellite.
What is sputnik?
Sort the following from largest to smallest:
Planets, The universe, Galaxies, solar systems, stars.
What are: The universe, Galaxies, solar systems, stars, planets?
These are the 8 planets in order from closest to the sun.
What are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
This causes a spring tide to occur.
What is both the moon and sun pulling on earth's water?
This is a description of where the earth's seasons come from.
{V}, axial tilt and revolution
This is the most powerful telescope.
What is the James Webb space telescope (JWST)?
These are the three main pieces of evidence Hubble used to support his big bang theory.
1- Galactic Acceleration,
2- Cosmic background radiation,
3- Distribution of the elements
This is the difference between a meteor, meteorite, and meteoroid.
Meteorite = space rock that has landed,
Meteoroids = rocks in space
Meteors = space rocks passing through an atmosphere (shooting stars)
This is a description of how the moon gets its phases.
{v}
This short term 'wobble' of the earth's axis is due to the relative position of the moon and sun to the earth.
What is nutation?
This was the first American in space.
Who is John Glenn?