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Celestial Mechanics
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Mars orbits the Sun at a mean distance of 228 million km, in a period of 687 days. The Earth orbits at
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sara
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Why is it important that earths orbit is nearly circular?
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Why would someone using a Foucault Pendulum at the equator say that Earth does not rotate?
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Cicilia
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Johannes Kepler's first law of motion describes most most planets having elliptical orbits. (1 point) Responses True True False
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b33ft0ads
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Kepler's shows that a line between a planet and the sun sweeps out two areas at different places as it make its' orbit.
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b33ft0ads
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As the Earth obits the Sun, a nearby star will appear to move against the more distant background stars. The star's apparent
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b33ft0ads
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Why is it important that Earth’s orbit is nearly circular? *
1 point This prevents massive temperature fluctuations that could
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Select the correct words to fill in the blanks to this sentence: As a planet draws away from the sun in its orbit, the gravity
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An astroid is heading toward mars at the rate of 7.7 times 10^4 mi./hr. if the astroid is 3.311 times 10^8 miles away from mars
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MasterYolk53
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Why do objects orbit the sun
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If the Earth has a mass of 5.98*10^24 kg and orbits the Sun at a radius of 1.43*10^11 meters. Find the mass of the Sun.
Thank
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roy
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Why is it important that Earth’s orbit is nearly circular?
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A day on Mars is 24.6 Earth hours long. A year on Mars is 687 Earth days long. How do the angular velocities of Mars’ rotation
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Roberto
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A ____________ is the point on a planet's orbit that is closest to the sun. (1 point) Responses aphelion aphelion focus focus
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b33ft0ads
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If a vehicle circled Earth at a distance equal to the Earth-Moon distance, how long would it take to make a complete orbit?
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Indiana
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Two newly discovered planets follow circular orbits around a star in a distant part of the galaxy. The orbital speeds of the
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Gina
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the earth (mass=5.98x10^24kg) rotates around the sun in a orbit that is approximately circular, with a radius of 1.5x10^11m
find
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peter
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How long is the precession cycle?
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Anonymous
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an asteroid orbits the sun at a constant distance of 4.44e+11 meters, the suns mass is 1.00*10^30kg, what is the orbital speed
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student
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A hypothetical spherical planet consists entirely of iron (p=7860kg/m^3). Calculate the period of a satellite that orbits just
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Anonymous
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How does length of the year change with distance from the sun?
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nikcy
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An asteroid is heading toward Mars at the rate of 7.7×10^4 mi./hr. If the asteroid is 3.311×10^8 miles away from Mars, how
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mermaid_scales
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determine the mass of the earth from the known period (365.25 days) and the distance of the moon (3.84X10^3 km)
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Michael
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Given that
• The distance from the earth to the sun is 1.5*10^11m, and • The mass of the sun is 1.9 *10^30 kg , 1. use
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lynn
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You know M(r) = v^2r /G
d = distance; s= speed Planet 1: d=2/s=120 Planet 2: d=4/s=60 Planet 3: d=9/s=40 Planet 4: d=16/s=30
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anonymous
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WHAT DOES RETROGRADE MEAN?
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SHAREEN
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if the earth rotated every 16 hours how would this affect solar eclipses, the phases of the moon and our tides
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emma
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The zero-velocity value of the Jacobi integral at the L2 point of the Earth-Moon system is C= -1.59411. Suppose a spacecraft is
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Ali
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I read the Earth/Moon Barycentre is located 74/100ths from the centre of the earth towards the earths surface. As the moons
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Mike
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A 21.0-kg satellite has a circular orbit with a period of 2.37 h and a radius of 8.50×106 m around a planet of unknown mass. If
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winterWX
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Equation of Time.
I have read 2 explanations of the Equation of Time which seem to contradict each other. Today the Equation of
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Mike
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I'm having trouble understanding the formulas for determining a planet's distance and mass.
A planet's distance is related to the
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Judy
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An asteroid is heading towards mars at a rate of 7.7 x 10^4 mi./hr. if the asteroid is 3.311 x 10^8 miles away from mars, how
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deg
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An asteroid revolves around the Sun with a mean orbital radius twice that of Earth's. Predict the period of the asteroid in
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Angel
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Low Earth orbiting satellites orbit between 200 and 500 miles above Earth. In order to keep the satellites at a constant
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Amie
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An early major objection to the idea that
Earth is spinning on its axis was that Earth would turn so fast at the equator that
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Anonymous
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which form of keplers third law can you use to relate the period T and radius r of a planet in our solar system as long as the
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Given that the Moon's period about the Earth is 27.32 days and the distance from the Earth to the Moon is 3.84*10^8 m estimate
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becky
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Whenever two Apollo astronauts were on the surface of the Moon, a third astronaut orbited the Moon. Assume the orbit to be
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Nancy
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Prove that for an earth satellite,the ratio of its velocity at apogee to its velocity at perigee is the inverse ratio of its
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veera
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Use Kepler’s laws and the period of the Moon (27.4 d)
to determine the period of an artificial satellite orbiting very near the
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rani
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A) What is the minimum speed, relative to the Sun, necessary for a spacecraft to escape the solar system if it starts at the
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jean
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find the speed and period of a satellite that would orbit Mars 203 km above its surface.
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johnny
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Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth, circling it with period (time of one revolution), T = 27,3 days. Radius of Moon’s
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Anonymous
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Determine the time it takes for a satellite to orbit the Saturn in a circular "near-Saturn" orbit. A "near-Saturn" orbit is at a
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jasika
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Scientists want to place a 3100 kg satellite in orbit around Mars. They plan to have the satellite orbit a distance equal to 1.9
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Austin
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A satellite orbits at an average altitude of h = 409 km. What is its orbital speed? Use REarth = 6370 km and
mEarth = 5.98 x
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Nikita
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the time x (in days), that it takes a planet to revolve around the sun can be approximated by the equation x=0.407√(d^3),where
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Mary
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how the moons stay in orbit around jupiter ?
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Anonymous
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If the average speed of earth's orbit is about 67,000 mph, what is the Earth's average radius from the sun?
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Nicte
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