Monday, December 30, 2013

ASTRO 107 HOMEWORK 8 FLASH CARDS

There is almost no atmosphere on the Moon because ...

its low mass is not enough to hang on to its atmosphere at its temperature, so the atmosphere escaped to space.

The moon...

rotates on its axis with the same period as its revolution about the Earth.

During a single night, the Moon

moves East to West across the sky.

Which of these is not a trans-Neptunian object?

Ceres

Asteroids are ...

rocky bodies smaller than a planet often found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

Which of these statements is true?

Venus can be in the Eastern sky at sunrise.

Jupiter's composition is closest to that of ...

the Sun

A planet cannot be seen at opposition if its orbits is

smaller in radius than the Earth's.

From the Earth, Mercury is difficult to see mostly because it ...

always appears close to the Sun in the sky.

Comets were proven to be beyond the Moon by Tycho Brahe. He did this by observing ...

a parallax angle smaller than the Moon's.

The energy produced by the Sun comes from...

nuclear fusion, similar to the energy produced in a hydrogen bomb.

The position of the Sun within the Milky Way Galaxy is best described as ...

in the disk, slightly more than halfway out from the center.

The approximate number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy is

100,000,000,000 (100 Billion)

Which of these should appear redder?

emission nebulae

The dimming of distant objects in the plane of the Milky Way disk is known as ...

extinction.

An important scientific use of binary star systems is that they enable us to determine stellar _____________ very precisely.

masses

If you find a cluster of very old and red stars, you would expect the cluster to appear ...

very dense and concentrated toward its center.

A cluster of stars is relatively diffuse and amorphous in shape and the stars appear to be preferential blue in color, rather than reddish. This cluster of stars is likely ...

an open cluster and contains stars that are young (less than 100 million years old).

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