Moon
Which planet has more moons, Earth or Jupiter?
Jupiter
Revolution
Brightness of an object
Luminosity
The largest planet
Jupiter
Compared to a dirty snowball, has a tail when close to the sun
Comet
What causes tides on Earth?
The moon's gravitational pull
15o Per hour
Rotation
Everything that exists
Universe
The third planet from the sun
Earth
Energy left over after the big bang.
Cosmic Background Radiation
Why does the same side of the moon always face the Earth?
The Moon's rotation and Revolution are the same.
The reason for changes of seasons.
Revolution
A closed curve around two points
Ellipse
Which two planets have almost identical roundness of their orbits?
Jupiter & Uranus
A galaxy moving toward Earth would appear...
Blue shift
What would happen if the moon suddenly disappeared?
No tides
Foucault's Pendulum proves what?
Rotation
Out of roundness
Eccentricity
What is the color, luminosity, and approximate surface temp of the Sun?
What is a the center of the Milky Way Galaxy?
Super Massive Blackhole
Give another name for the moon (historical)
Greek: Selene
Roman: Luna
Other names possible (Mr. Nethaway's discretion)
Due to the rotation of the Earth materials are deflected to the ______ in the Northern hemisphere and to the ________ in the Southern hemisphere.
Right
Left
The angular distance of a celestial object above the horizon.
Altitude
Mr. Nethaway was born in 1999, how many planets were there in our solar system?
9 (Pluto was still classified as a planet until 2002)
Where is the Kuiper asteroid belt located?
Beyond Neptune