ASTR 1P01 Study Guide - Final Guide: Scantron Corporation, The Moons, Radioactive Decay

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

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Indicate the best response to each item on the scantron sheet provided. No aids are permitted except for a non-programmable calculator. Sun in the summer and a little farther from the sun in the winter. (c) earth"s rotation axis is tilted relative to the plane of earth"s orbit around the. Sun. (a) heliocentric (b) geocentric (c) celestial sphere (d) epicycle: tycho brahe"s great advance was to (a) mathematically analyze observations made by kepler to prove that the orbit of. Mars is elliptical. (b) make the rst observations of comets. (c) make the most accurate astronomical observations up to that time. (d) win the astronomical horse race of 1566 by a nose. Star x is 5 times farther from earth than star y. Page 11 of 18: we can learn a lot about a star from its spectrum. All of the following statements are true except one.