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Center of the Solar System Correct Answer-Sun Planets Orbit Correct Answer-Counter Clockwise T/F: Venus's day is longer than a year Correct Answer-True T/F: All planets take a year to go around the sun Correct Answer-False About how many times has Neptune orbited then sun since 1864 Correct Answer-1 0.4 AU goes with what planet? Correct Answer-Mercury The planets are in range of this many miles away. Correct Answer-tens of millions T/F: A light year is critical for measurin...

ASTR 101 -Astronomy test#1 questions with complete solutions

SETI Correct Answer-Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence What does ETI need? Correct Answer-1. A platform 2. Stability 3. Emergence, persistence and gradual evolution 4. Be communicative Water's special properties Correct Answer-Contracts at lower temperatures, high heat capacity, important for chemical reactions How many stars in the Milky Way could be suitable for ETI? Correct Answer-At least a few billion Habitable zone Correct Answer-area around a star that life can exist...

ASTR 101 Midterm #1 Questions with Complete Solutions

kirkwood gaps Correct Answer-Jupiter's strong gravity makes asteroid orbits within Jupiter's orbit unstable kirkwood gaps Correct Answer-reason why the asteroids didn't form a separate planet asteroids Correct Answer-small, airless, rocky worlds revolving around the sun that are too small to be called planets. most have an irregular shape and elliptical orbits jovian planets Correct Answer-the internal structures contain rock, metal, and hydrogen compounds jupiter and saturn Corre...

Light from the sun takes about 8 minutes to reach Earth. Saturn is about 10 astronomical units from the Sun how long does it take sunlight to reach Saturn? Correct Answer-Just a bit more than the length of astronomy class Approximately when does the full moon rise Correct Answer-Sunset The speed of light is 3x10 ^8 m/s. How far can light travel in a week (which is about 6x10^5 seconds)? Correct Answer-1.8x10^14 meters Approximately how long does it take the moon to orbit the Earth? Corr...

Ecliptic Correct Answer-apparent path of the Sun across Celestial Sphere over the course of a year 88 Correct Answer-number of official constellations constellation Correct Answer-A configuration of stars in the same region of the sky; useful for mapping the sky Northern Constellations Correct Answer-Constellations with latinized greek-mythology names (Orion, Cygnus, Leo, Ursa Major) Southern Constellations Correct Answer-constellations with latin names (Telescopium, Sextans, etc.) ...

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Astr 1010 Midterm 2 Clemson chapters 7-12 Exam Questions and Answers

This document includes all of the necessary notes to pass David Connick's second midterm. I passed with a 92, so they definitely work. Hopefully they save you some time!