Astronomers Ellipses Earth’s Orbit Planets Planets Eleanor M. Savko FJ Ellipses Earth’s Orbit 4/8/2019 Planets Planets 1 pt 1 pt 1 pt 1 pt 1 pt 2 pt 2 pt 2 pt 2 pt 2 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 4 pt 4 pt 4 pt 4 pt 4 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt
First to use a telescope To view the night sky
Galileo
Explained the forces Involved for an Orbiting body
Newton
Collected 20 years of data for a Danish King, Had his nose cut off
Tycho Brahe
1st to put forth the Heliocentric model
Copernicus
Revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits Suggested the planets Revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits
Kepler
Measurement of how non-circular an ellipse is
eccentricity
All planet’s orbits look like this shape
circles
The more elliptical the closer The eccentricity is to the number _______
one
The ____ is located at one of the foci of the planet’s orbits
sun
eccentricity of an ellipse The formula for the eccentricity of an ellipse
Focal distance divided by the major axis
Direction of earth’s orbit
counterclockwise
First day of summer and winter
solstice
Number of hours of sun the North Pole gets on an equinox
12
Which 2 seasons does the number of hours of sunlight in Virginia constantly increase
Winter and spring
The earth revolve each day Daily Double How many degrees does The earth revolve each day
Approximately one
retrograde rotation does not effect sunrise
Uranus
Jovian means
Jupiter-like
Has the greatest temperature range
Mercury
Means earth-like
terrestrial
Planet with the fastest orbital speed
Mercury
Hottest planet
Venus
Total number of moons the inner planets have
3
Planet with the Big Red Spot
Jupiter
Why does Mercury have such a large temperature range
One side faces the sun for approximately 30 days
Which of these orbit the Sun: Planets Moons Meteoroids Comets Asteroids Daily Double
Planets Comets Asteroids
What did Aristotle think stars were ? Greeks Final Jeopardy Holes in the outer sphere around Earth that a light shone through What did Aristotle think stars were ? Greeks