Planets/Astronomy/Quiz

Planetary astronomy is a lecture focused on a specific type of astronomical object and the effects on it of revolving around one or more stars.

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Quiz
{Johannes Kepler is not known for which of the following? - being an astrologer - a key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution + Euclidean geometry - projective geometry - if a straight line is extended to infinity it will meet itself at a single point at infinity, thus having the properties of a large circle - Rudolphine Tables
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{Who first proposed the hypothesis that the Sun is at rest, while the Earth and the planets rotate about the Sun? { Aristarchus (i) }
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{Which of the following is associated with Pluto? + a dwarf planet - a member of the Oort belt + the northern polar region has brightened + the southern polar region has darkened - its overall redness has decreased + extreme axial tilt
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{Yes or No, To ancient astronomers stars remain relatively fixed over the centuries while planets move an appreciable amount during a comparatively short time. + Yes - No
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{Venus is not known historically for which of the following? + being in orbit around the Sun in 10,000 b2k - imaged by the Magellan probe - a gas dwarf when viewed in the ultraviolet - almost as large as the Earth - may have appeared comet-like in human memory - having a high surface temperature
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{Which of the following is not a phenomenon associated with Ceres? - the smallest identified dwarf planet - Ceres is spheroidal - it is in orbit around the Sun - it appears to be in hydrostatic equilibrium - it has not cleared its neighborhood + Ceres is one of the two natural satelites of Mars
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{True or False, The observations of planetary motion agree with computed orbits to the accuracy of the observations. - TRUE + FALSE
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{Before the current era and perhaps before 6,000 b2k which classical planet may have been green? { Osiris|Saturn (i) }
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{True or False, The astronomer Clyde Tombaugh is the discoverer of Charon. - TRUE + FALSE
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{Before the current era and perhaps before 6,000 b2k which classical planet may have been observed as a pole star for the Earth? { Osiris|Saturn (i) }
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{True or False, A planet has been referred to as a moving light in the sky. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which of the following is not a studied characteristic of a planet? - an orbit around a star - a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape + nucleosynthesis - has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit - an initially fractionated elemental composition
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{True or False, The average value of the radius of the Earth's orbit around the Sun is a displacement. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which of the following may be characteristic of orbital theory? + a hyperbolic pass + stellar association - may point away from a stellar association + eccentricity + obliquity + precession
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Hypotheses

 * 1) The astronomy of planets is the essence of the effects on astronomical objects of revolution around one or more stars, stellar-like objects, or sub-stars.