Cosmic Bodies
History of the Solar System
Newton's Laws
Describing Orbits
Science Buffet
100
This is a giant clound of dust and debris in space.
What is a nebula?
100
The cosmic body that can become a solar system.
What is a nebula?
100
This is the term that describes the speed of an object traveling in a direction.
What is velocity?
100
An object that has been captured by an object with a larger mass and does not have much velocity would produce this kind of interaction or orbit.
What is a collision?
100
This unit is a measurement of the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
What is an astronomical unit (AU)?
200
This is a collection of stars, planets, nebula, and other cosmic bodies in the universe.
What is a galaxy?
200
This is how planets form.
What is through the collision of asteroids and debris in space.
200
It is difficult to move an object with a large mass because of this physical force.
What is inertia?
200
An object that has a great deal of velocity but not much mass that is captured by an object with no velocity but great mass would produce this kind of interaction/orbit.
What is an elliptical orbit like that of a comet?
200
This scientist's contribution to the field was to describe physical forces with mathematical equations.
Who is Isaac Newton?
300
A satellite that orbits a star in a circular orbit.
What is a planet?
300
This observation led to the theory that dust can become stars and planets.
What is that dust in 0 gravity instantly attracts through gravity and clumps together?
300
The force of an object is calculated by multiplying its mass times this.
What is its acceleration?
300
An object with a very small mass is in close proximity to an object with greater mass that has been captured by an object with even greater mass. The object would most likely become this cosmic body.
What is a moon?
300
This scientist's contribution to the field was to calculate the diameter of the Earth using solar incidence. While doing this he determined the Sun and Earth's relationship during the Earth's revolution around the Sun.
Who is Erastothenes?
400
A satellite that orbits a star in a highly elliptical orbit.
What is a comet?
400
DAILY DUBs! The approximate period of time during which our solar system experienced many collisions between planets and asteroids.
What is 5 x 10^6 years.
400
In the equation T = mv, the variable T represents this.
What is momentum?
400
Two objects with great mass that is approximately equal also have equal velocities but opposite vectors. These objects would most likely become this type of cosmic feature.
What are binary stars?
400
This scientist's contribution to the field was to demonstrate that the solar system is heliocentric through his observation of the planets through a telescope.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
500
The type of star that our Sun is.
What is a yellow dwarf?
500
This happens when gravity causes atoms to be packed densely enough to fuse.
What is the birth of a star/nuclear fusion.
500
Daily Triple: Two objects with equal mass, A and B, that are traveling with equal velocity collide. The objects do not cancel each others' motion and continue to move after the collision. This conclusion is most likely the reason that the objects did not stop moving.
What is the vectors of the objects were not directly opposite each other.
500
Daily Dubs: 2 objects are in space. Object A is traveling at a velocity of 5m/s. Object B is an object with the same mass traveling with an opposite vector at a speed of 2m/s. Describe the motion of the objects immediately after the collision resulting from their net force.
What is both objects would travel in the direction of object A with a speed of 3m/s?
500
This is the reason that the average temperature on Mercury is lower than the average temperature on Venus.
What is that Mercury does not have an atmosphere?
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