The Moon
The side of the Moon that maria are located on
What is The near side
The two variables that determine gravitational force
What is Mass and Distance
the 8 planets of our solar system
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
What is 'extreme heat'
When the Moon's shadow is cast onto the Earth
What is a Solar Eclipse
The side of the moon with thinner crust
What is the near side
The reason why asteroids a irregular and planets/moons/stars are round
What is surface gravity
the difference between a meteor, meteoroid, and meteorite
what is location from Earth's surface
Meteor- in our atmosphere
meteoroid-outside our atmosphere
meteorite- hit Earth's surface
The technique to measure star distance in our galaxy
what is parallax
The 13th Zodiac Constellation that is excluded from astrology?
What is Ophiuchus
The daytime moon phase
What is the New Moon
The balance between energy pushing outwards and gravity pushing inwards
the planets that the asteroid belt sits in between
what is Mars and Jupiter
The element that causes a supernova
what is iron
The area of the Milky Way with the most stars
What is the bulge
The phases of the moon
What is New Moon, Waxing crescent, 1st quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, 3rd quarter, waning crescent
The primary difference between a blue star and a red star
what is energy output
The origin of short period comets
What is the Kuiper Belt
What is a binary/multiple star system
the plane on which the majority of a disk-shaped galaxy's mass lies.
The cause of Earth's lengthening days (aka slowing rotation)
What is tidal braking
The reason why the Moon orbits the Earth and not the other way around
What is F=ma/Newton's second law of motion
the force is equal, so since earth's mass is larger it has small acceleration-not moving as much
a technique astronomers use to detect exoplanets
What is...any of the following:
exoplanet transit
gravitational lensing
infrared radiation
radial velocity
the 7 stages of low mass star evolution (not including the initial interstellar cloud stage)
What is 1. protostar 2. main sequence 3. red giant 4. helium giant 5. super red giant 6.planetary nebula 7.white dwarf
The area in the sky where we can't see other galaxies because of the concentration of other stars in the milky way
What is the Zone of Avoidance