NATS 1745 Study Guide - Circumstellar Disc, Orbital Period, Kuiper Belt
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He was classifying the stars to aid the search for stellar parallax. He had the biggest telescope of that time, the longer the tube the more magnified the object was. He could see deeper in the sky and produce larger images. Near circular orbit around the sun which qualifies it as a planet. ~20au from the sun (orbital period of 84 years) Uranus was moving in an orbit nearly circular to the sun. Comets have elongated eccentric orbits whereas uranus had circular orbits. What is the origin of uranus" name? greek god of the sky, father of saturn, grandfather of jupiter: what did kepler believe existed between the large space between mars and. Kepler proposed that the large gap between mars and jupiter contained an undiscovered planet. Law: the orbital radii of the 6 known planets follow a sequence of numbers. Bode"s sequences were very close to the actual distances.
