ASTR 1P01 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Method, Scantron Corporation

• School: Brock University
• Department: Astronomy
• Course: ASTR 1P01
• Professor: Bozidar Mitrovic

Document Summary

Earth is slightly fatter around the middle, and it spins on its n/s axis going counterclockwise (w/e). This is responsible for day and night. (but you already knew that) sets in the west, and goes through this cycle pretty damn close to once every 24 hours. The moon is drifting away from the earth very slowly (cid:498)sunset line(cid:499) is the furthest point that sunlight reaches, or where you can currently see the sunset from. Ok here"s some reeeeeal basics, the sun rises in the east and. The earth"s spinning rate is slowing down over time image you"re seeing is. Speed of light = 300,000km/s. nothing can surpass or equal this speed. [ time = distance/speed of light ], hence the further away an object is, the laggier the. We know how far we are from the moon when we bounce a light off of it.