NST1502 Assignment 2.

NST1502
Assignment 2

, Question 1

1.1.1) D
1.1.2) A
1.1.3) C
1.1.4) A
1.1.5) C

Question 2

2.1 True

2.2 False

2.3 False

2.4 False

2.5 True

Question 3

3.1) The Milky Way Galaxy is a massive spiral structure made up of several hundred
billion stars, including the sun. The milky way is named for the uneven bright band of
stars and gas clouds that spreads across the sky as seen from Earth (Hodge, P.W,
2020)

3.2) The equinoxes are the two periods of the year when the day and night are
almost equal in length in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. (Hodge,
P.W, 2020)

The solstices are the two periods of the year when the sun's apparent path is farthest
north or furthest south from the Earth's equator.

3.3)




[Photograph of The Kuiper Belt.] (n.d.) https://nineplanets.org/wp-
content/uploads/2020/12/the-kuiper-belt-4.jpg

The Kuiper Belt is a comet-rich region of our solar system that extends beyond Pluto
and begins around Neptune's orbit. In 1992, the first Kuiper Belt Object was


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