NATS 1745 Final: Final Exam Review Questions and Answers
7 Mar 2014
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Nats1745 6. 0 history of astronomy final exam review. He was cataloguing stars to aid the search for stellar parallax. He was an amateur astronomer who built the largest telescope of his time. In what 2 ways did uranus reveal itself to herschel as a planet: he observed a star-like object, which increased in size when he increased his telescope magnification, shortly after, he observed it"s motion relative to the stars. Further investigation revealed its near-circular orbit (84 years orbital periods). Greek god of the sky, father of saturn, grandfather of jupiter). 2) what did kepler believe existed between the large space between mars and. When kepler observed the large gap between mars and jupiter, he proposed it contains an undiscovered planet. Bode"s law: the orbital radii of the 6 known planets follow a sequence of numbers. Bode"s sequences were very close to the actual distances.
