PLANETS
DISTANCE FROM THE SUN
MISCELLANEOUS
SPECTRUMS
TELESCOPES
100
Mars
What is the red planet?
100
58 million km's
What is the average distance from the sun to Mercury?
100
The Nebular Theory
What is the theory where the planets were formed from a rotating disk of dust and gasses?
100
The study of properties that depend on wave length.
What is the study of Spectroscopy?
100
concave mirror
What type of lens does a reflecting telescope use?
200
Venus
Which planet is known as Earth's twin?
200
108 million km's
What is the average distance from the sun to Venus?
200
Mariner 9
What is the name of the first space craft to orbit another planet?
200
An uninterupted band of light emmited by an incandescent solid, liquid, or gas under pressure is.
What is the continuous spectrum?
200
Glass
What type of lens does a refracting telescope use?
300
Jupiter
Which planet has the great red spot?
300
150 million km's
What is the average distance from the sun to the Earth?
300
Galieo
Who discovered Jupiter's four largest moons?
300
A gas under low pressure
What is the emission spectrum?
300
Their greater resolving power.
What is the advantage of telescoples with large objectivites?
400
Saturn
Which planet is known as the elegant planet?
400
778 million km's
What is the average distance from the sun to Jupiter?
400
Asteriods
What are the small rocky bodies that orbit the sun called?
400
When visible light is passing through a relatively cool gas under low pressure.
What is the absorbtion spectrum?
400
That it is in space and can recieve better images.
What is one advantage of a radio telescope?
500
Pluto
Which planet is known as the dwarf planet?
500
5900 million km's
What is the average distance from the sun to Pluto?
500
Halley's Comet
Which comet has an average orbital period for 76 years?
500
A wave length of a wave that is emmitted from a source that is moving towards or away from an object.
What is the Doplar Effect?
500
1.light-gathering power. 2. resolving power. 3. magnifying power.
How does a refracting and reflecting telescope aid astronmers? Name the two out of three of them.
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