Astronomy
Eccentricity
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Misc.
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This motion gives a planet night and day

What is the rotation of the Earth?

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Measurement of the ovalness of an ellipse

What is Eccentricity?

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This is the luminosity of the Sun

What is one?

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This is the age of our Solar System

What is 4.6 billion years old ?

200

This motion gives a planet it's year

What is revolution?

200

The force that causes a planet to speed up as it gets closer to the Sun

What is gravity?

200

This is the eccentricity of Earth

What is 0.017?

200

A super massive star becomes this at the end of it's life

What is a black hole or neutron star?

300

These are all of the Terrestrial planets.

What are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars?

300

The eccentricity of this is zero

What is a circle?

300

This planet has the lowest eccentricity

What is venus?

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This event occurred approximately 13.7 billion years ago that lead to the formation of Earth and the Universe

What is the Big Bang?


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This is located between Mars and Jupiter

What is the Asteroid Belt?

400

This is the amount of decimal places we round eccentricity to

What are 3 decimal places?

400

This planet has the most elliptical orbital

What is Mercury?

400

This was discovered throughout the Universe and provided evidence of the Big Bang

What is cosmic background radiation?

500

The formation of heavier elements from lighter elements inside a star.

What is Nuclear Fusion? 

500

When the distance between foci increases, the eccentricity does this

What is increase? 

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These 2 planets have the most similar shaped orbits

What are Jupiter and Uranus?

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This effect shows stars and galaxies that are moving away from us with a red color

What is the Doppler Effect?

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