Planets
This gas giant was named after a roman god, NASA also sent a spacecraft named after his wife there.
Jupiter
What is Eccentricity?
How circular/squished and orbit is?
When the moon is in between the Sun and the Earth, what kind of eclipse happens?
Solar Eclipse
The Kuiper Belt is home to one of our main planets in the solar system, and its moon which is almost as big as the planet.
Pluto & Charon
What is our next unit going to be?
History & Spaceflight
This planet was named by 11 year old Venetia Burney, who chose the name based on the Roman god of the underworld.
Pluto
At what point in an orbit is the aphelion located?
The point farthest from the sun.
When we see a 'blood moon', what is really happening?
Total Lunar Eclipse
What does the Kuiper belt consist of?
Icy celestial bodies
The two shortest days of the year are supposed to be when?
January 2nd and July 2nd
What is one of the three requirements to be a planet?
1. orbits the sun
2. has gravity to pull it into a sphere
3. Clears its own orbit
What is Kepler's second law?
The closer a planet is to the sun, the faster it moves.
At what phase(s) of the moon do all eclipses happen?
New or Full Moon
What is the big cloud of space dust beyond the Kuiper Belt called?
The Oort Cloud
What two elements is the sun made of?
Hydrogen and Helium
This rocky planet has an atmosphere 90 times as dense as our own.
Venus
What is the mathematical formula for Kepler's third law?
period squared is equivalent to the semi-major axis cubed, P² ∝ a³
Highlands are bright spots, Maria are dark spots
What dwarf planet lies in the asteroid belt instead of the Kuiper belt?
Ceres
How did we measure the radius of the Earth in our lab?
get the angle of the sun from measuring the shadow of the meter stick.
This planet gets its color from the methane in its atmosphere
Uranus
Using Kepler's third law, where the period squared is equivalent to the semi-major axis cubed, find the Period of Mars (1.52 AU).
1.32 Earth Years
When the moon is at perihelion to Earth, what kind of tide occurs?
Spring/High Tide
There is a theoretical Planet X. How was it located?
Mathematical modeling
This moon has the highest possibility for life in our solar system aside from Earth.
Jupiter's moon Europa