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| What is a geocentric model? Is it false? |
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| A geocentric model is the idea that Earth is the center of th universe. Yes, this idea is false. |
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| What is a heliocentric model? Is it true? |
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| A heliocentric model is the idea that the sun is the center of the universe. Yes, this idea is true. |
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| Why is Brahe so important? |
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| Brahe is important because he helped adavance the understanding of the universe. |
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| Who describes all his findings mathmatically? |
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| Who built the telescope and disovered much of what we all know today? |
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| What is in the middle of the Tropic Cancer and the sun? |
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| Is the aphelion farther or closer to the sun? |
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| Its farther from the sun. |
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| What is in the middle of the sun and the Tropic of Capricorn? |
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| Is the perihelion farther or closer to the sun? |
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| The perihelion is closer to the sun. |
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| The tilt of our planet causes the seasons. |
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| The tilt of our planet causes the seasons. |
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| What are the terrestrial planets? |
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| The terrestrial planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. |
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| What are the characteristics of the terrestrial planets? |
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| They are close to the sun, mostly solid, have small diameters, high densities, rocky surfaces, impact craters, few or no moons, and no rings. |
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| What planets are the Jovian planets or "Gas Giants"? |
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| The planets are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, and Uranus. |
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| What are the characteristsics of the Jovian planets? |
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| They are far from the planet, largely gaseous, have large diameters, low densities, no solid surface(may have a solid core), no craters, many moons, and there are rings. |
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| Satellites are solid objects that revolve around planets. |
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| Asteroids are rock fragments that revolve around the sun. |
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| A comet is a dirty snowball that has high elliptical orbit and forms a tail as it nears the sun. |
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| A meteroid is an asteroid out of its orbit. |
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| What is a meteor? When or when will there be a meteor? |
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| A meteor is basically as shooting star. There was a meteor on August 11'th. |
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| A meteroite is a chunk of rock that reaches Earth's surface. |
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| What is the order for the meteroids? |
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| The order is meteroid, meteor, and then once its touched Earth's surface and has landed, its a meteorite. |
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| Inertia is the conecept that when an object is at rest, it remains at rest, and also that the pbject in motion will maintain the same speed an ddirection unless an opposing force affects it. |
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| What is gravitation and what between the planet and the sun pulls the planet towards the sun? |
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| Gravitation is the attractive force that exists between any two objects in the universe.The gravitational attraction between the planet and sun pulls the planet towards the sun. |
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| What is the balance between inertia and gravity? |
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| The balance is the orbit. |
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| What would make a planet travel in a straight line? |
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| Inertia would make a planet travel in a straight line. |
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