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Node - ANSWERwhen the moon crosses the ecliptic parallax - ANSWERthe apparent shift of an object when viewing it from 2 different locations newtons 2 law - ANSWERa body acted upon by a force will accelerate in the direction of the force precession....and how long does it last? - ANSWERchange in earth axis in the celestials sphere 26000 years speed of light - ANSWER186000 miles/sec retrograde motion - ANSWERthe apparent motion of planet in a direction opposite to that of other bodies within its system copernican model - ANSWERmodel of the solar system with the sun in the middle and planets moving in circles around the sun heliocentric - ANSWERsuns in the middle geocentric - ANSWERearth in the middle annular eclipse - ANSWERwhen the moon is farther away from the earth and you can see a ring of sunlight how far are we from alpha centauri - ANSWER4.3 light years how are is 1 AU - ANSWER93,000,000 miles kepler's first law - ANSWERthe planets orbit the sun in ellipses, with the sun at one focus

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ASTRONOMY 101 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS
SBCC CORRECT 100%
Node - ANSWERwhen the moon crosses the ecliptic

parallax - ANSWERthe apparent shift of an object when viewing it from 2 different
locations

newtons 2 law - ANSWERa body acted upon by a force will accelerate in the direction of
the force

precession....and how long does it last? - ANSWERchange in earth axis in the celestials
sphere 26000 years

speed of light - ANSWER186000 miles/sec

retrograde motion - ANSWERthe apparent motion of planet in a direction opposite to
that of other bodies within its system

copernican model - ANSWERmodel of the solar system with the sun in the middle and
planets moving in circles around the sun

heliocentric - ANSWERsuns in the middle

geocentric - ANSWERearth in the middle

annular eclipse - ANSWERwhen the moon is farther away from the earth and you can
see a ring of sunlight


how far are we from alpha centauri - ANSWER4.3 light years

how are is 1 AU - ANSWER93,000,000 miles

kepler's first law - ANSWERthe planets orbit the sun in ellipses, with the sun at one
focus

Kepler's second law - ANSWERa line joining the sun and the planet sweeps over equal
intervals of time

newtons first law - ANSWERobject in motion stays in motion while an object at rest
stays at rest

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