Planets
The Big Picture
Looking outwards
Planets In Motion
Exploring Space
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What is the planet closest to the sun?
Mercury
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Is our solar system heliocentric or geocentric
heliocentric
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What is thee difference between ground and space telescopes
Ones is space and ones on the ground (if you go this wrong your very stupid)
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What does ISS stand for
International space station
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What is NASA's space plane called
The space shuttle
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What is the order of the planets?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
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What is the difference between heliocentric and geocentric?
Heliocentric is a sun centred solar system and geocentric is an earth centred solar system.
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What is light pollution?
Artificial light produced by lamps, city lights, headlights, etc fills the night sky blocking out the dim stars.
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What is a asynchronous orbit?
A low orbit satellite that orbits the earth many many times a day
200
What is the difference between serial staging and parallel staging
300
True or false: The moon is bigger than mercury
True
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Whats the difference between a meteor and meteorite?
A meteor is a rock from spays that enters our atmosphere in a burning streak of light, a meteorite is a piece of space rock that has landed on the earths surface.
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How does a telescope make something larger?
It uses lenses to bend the light to increase its size.
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What does a spectroscope do?
A spectroscope finds out what materials stars are made out of bu using there waves of light
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What NASA space program brought astronauts to the moon
The Apollo Program
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How many gas giants are there in our solar system
4
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How are stars born?
Stars are born in a nebula, the gas clumps together and forms a star.
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How do you determine the location of a star in the sky?
Altitude and azimuth
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What is the Doppler affect?
Sound ways are compressed or decompressed by a moving object causing the sound waves to change in pitch. VRROOOOOOOooooooommmmmm
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What was Canada contribution to the ISS
They made the Canadarm and Dextre
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How many rings does saturn have?
Is it A)1 B)20 C)7 or D) 12
Answer is C) 7
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What astronomer discovered our solar system model
Nicolaus Copernicus
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What are all of the types of telescopes?
Refracting, Reflecting, Combination, and Radio telescopes
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If a satellite is geosynchronous what does that mean
Its orbit speed is the same as the earths rotational speed so it stays above the same area of the earth
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Which project won the space dragons den project
SPACE BUS 