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AST101H1- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 38 pages long!)

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30 Nov 2017
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
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AST101H1
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Netterfield

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Solar system is the sun, planets and all their moons: a star and all the objects that orbit it. Universe is the totality of all space, time, energy and matter. Our cosmic address": our planet (earth, our solar system (solar system, our galaxy (milky way galaxy, our galaxy cluster (local group, the universe (universe) Galaxy: a great island of stars in space, containing millions, billions, or even trillions of stars: all held together by gravity and orbiting a common center. Sun and earth are 150,000,000,000 m apart: 1. 5 x 1011m, 1au (astronomical unit) Maximum possible separation between earth and mars is 2. 5 au. A light year is a measure of distance (the distance that light travels in year: nearest star is 4. 4ly (light years) away. 1 au = 8. 3 light minutes the sun is 8. 3 light minutes from earth. Star: balls of plasma which produce energy by nuclear fusion.

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Which, if any, of the following statements is/are true?

1)Our galaxy, The Milky Way, is a member of The Local Group, whichis one of several groups of galaxies located in the VirgoSupercluster.
2)Most astrophysicists believe that our Solar System formed from animmense cloud of gas and dust about 4-1/2 million years ago.
3)Planets are believed to have formed by a process known asaccretion.
4)Two key elements in the Condensation Theory of PlanetaryFormation are 5)Conservation of Angular Momentum and CondensationNuclei.
6)The name of the second largest object in the Universe is TheSouthern Wall.
7)In our Solar System, the four jovian planets, Jupiter, Saturn,Uranus, and Neptune, are separated from the four terrestrialplanets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, by the Kuiper Belt.
8)Our star, The Sun, is located on the Orion Arm, about 26,000light-years from the center of the Andromeda Galaxy.
9)It takes a photon of light about 4-1/5 years to travel from ourSolar System to the second closest star to Earth, ProximaCentauri.
10)The full range of human knowledge about our Universe spans about40 or 41 orders of magnitude on a spatial scale and about 13.7billion years on a temporal scale.
11)It takes a photon of light about 5-1/2 hours to travel from theSun to the orbit of the former planet Pluto.