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The Moon
100
Used Tycho Brahe's data to formulate 3 laws of planetary motion.
Who is Kepler?
100
The name given when a planet is closest to the sun.
What is a perihelion?
100
The belief that the Earth was the center of the universe.
What is geocentric?
100
The two major factors that determine the force between 2 objects.
What are mass and distance?
100
Occurs when the Moon casts a shadow on Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
200
Improved upon the design of the telescope and discovered 4 moons of Jupiter.
Who is Galileo?
200
The apparent westward movement of a planet.
What is retrograde motion?
200
A gas planet that was unknown to ancient Greeks.
What is Uranus or Neptune?
200
Thirty degrees of right ascension in minutes.
What is 120 minutes.
200
The period of rotation of the Moon about its axis and the revolution of the Moon around Earth in number of days.
What is 27.3 days?
300
The first modern astronomer to propose a Sun-centered solar system.
Who is Copernicus?
300
This unit averages 93 million miles.
What is 1 Astronomical Unit?
300
Transparent shell that scientists believed the stars were located.
What is the celestial sphere?
300
According to Kepler's 3rd law, the period of revolution of a planet is related this.
What is the distance to the Sun?
300
The time in weeks that is takes the Moon to go from full-moon phase to new-moon phase.
What is 2 weeks?
400
Ancient Greek that developed a geocentric model of the universe.
Who is Ptolemy?
400
Number of "signs" in the Astrological Zodiac.
What is 12?
400
Another name for the North Star.
What is Polaris?
400
The distance Earth moves in kilometers each second in its orbit.
What is 30 kilometers?
400
The period when the Moon's phases are changing from new to full.
What is waxing?
500
Alien doctor that flies in time and space in a blue box.
Who is Dr. Who?
500
On AU = this many miles.
What is 93 million miles?
500
Famous "ring of rocks" that served as an ancient calendar and was aligned with various astronomical events.
What is stonehenge?
500
The number of students enrolled in this class.
What is 32?
500
Disease Jack Mattingly was exposed to prior to the Apollo 13 launch.
What is the measles?