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Quiz 27 p302 - 309
Structure of the Heavens
Question | Answer |
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Polish astronomer who proposed a heliocentric system of the universe | Nicklaus Copernicus |
Scientist who discovered the law0 universal gravitation | Sir Isaac Newton |
astronomer whose book Almagest mathematically described the geocentric view of the universe | Ptolemy |
astronomer who discovered that the planets do not travel in circles | Johannes Kepler |
astronomer whose discovery of the phases of Venus helped prove the heliocentric view | Galileo Galileo |
the study of God's creation beyond our atmosphere | astronomy |
the force of attraction that exists between any two objects | gravity |
the general term for a space that does not contain any other matter | black hole |
the point in a planet's orbit that is farthest from the sun | perihelion |
the sun, planets, the planets' moons, and other smaller bodies that orbit the sun firm | the solar system |