ASTR-122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Binary Star, Universal Time, Greenwich Mean Time
8 Apr 2016
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A small, glassy material formed by the impact of a large body, usually a meteor or asteroid. Tektites are commonly found at the sites of meteor craters. An instrument that uses lenses and sometimes mirrors to collect large amounts of light from distant objects and enable direct observation and photography. A telescope can also include any instrument designed to observe distant objects by their emissions of invisible radiation such as x-rays or radio waves. The boundary between the light side and the dark side of a planet or other body. A term used to describe anything originating on the planet earth. A name given to a planet composed mainly of rock and iron, similar to that of earth. The differential gravitational pull exerted on any extended body within the gravitational field of another body. Frictional heating of a satellite"s interior due to flexure caused by the gravitational pull of its parent planet and/or other neighboring satellites.
