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Jason Adriaens (username: adriaens.jason)
Attempt 1
Written: Jan 18, 2022 7:19 PM - Jan 18, 2022 7:44 PM
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Question 1
1 / 1 point
According to Kepler's third law, there is a relationship between the time a planet takes to revolve
around the Sun and its
Question 2
1 / 1 point
In what book did Ptolemy describe his epicycle model of the Universe?
Question 3
1 / 1 point
Which of the following is not contributed to Tycho Brahe?
period of rotation.
eccentricity.
distance from the Sun.
size.
Dialogue Concerning the Two Major Bodies
Almagest
Lord of the Rings
On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs
Observations of Mars.
Observation of a supernova.
Finding the parallax of a comet.
Claiming the Sun was at the center of the Universe.
Question 4
1 / 1 point
When Copernicus first created his Sun-centered model of the universe, it did not lead to
substantially better predictions of planetary positions than the Ptolemaic model. Why not?
Question 5
1 / 1 point
If a planet has an orbital period of P
2
= 49.0 years
2
, what would be the average distance in AU
3
?
Question 6
1 / 1 point
According to the geocentric view, everything in the heavens had to go around the Earth, which
was the center of the universe. What objects did Galileo discover with his telescope that clearly
didn't go around the Earth?
Question 7
1 / 1 point
Which person below wrote On the Revolution of the Celestial Orbs?
Copernicus placed the Sun at the center but did not realize that the Moon orbits Earth.
Copernicus misjudged the distances between the planets.
Copernicus used perfect circles for the orbits of the planets, whereas planets actually
have elliptical orbits.
Copernicus placed the planets in the wrong order going outward from the Sun.
7.0 AU
3
49.0 AU
3
3.66 AU
3
117,649 AU
3
stars in the Milky Way that just kept going in a straight line.
moons around the planet Jupiter.
the Earth's Moon.
a ring around the Sun.
Brahe
Question 8
1 / 1 point
In the epicycle model of the Universe the Sun can be found:
Question 9
1 / 1 point
Which of the following objects would have the closest to a perfectly circular orbit around the
Sun?
Question 10
1 / 1 point
A newly discovered object in the Solar System takes 2.0 years to orbit the Sun. How far is the
object from the Sun in AU
3
?
Copernicus
Nancy Drew
Ptolemy
on a deferent between Venus and Mars.
on an epicycle between Venus and Mars.
on a janky wire hanging from the sky.
at the center of the Solar System,
Sedna e = 0.8469
Mars e = 0.0934
Venus e = 0.007
Earth e = 0.0167
8.0 AU
3
1.27 AU
3
6.0 AU
3
4.0 AU
3
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