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Sun-Earth-Moon-Stuff
Week #1 Study Sheet
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What's Hubble? | A space telescope that orbits Earth and takes pictures of the solar system and deep space and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). |
| What's SOHO? | The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory is a satellite designed to continuously study the Sun. |
| Sky watching used to be a WHAT? | A pastime throughout history. |
| Astrology is WHAT? | The belief that events in the sky---the 'heavens'---control our lives and predict the future. |
| Describe constellation Leo. | Shaped like a lion, best seen in early spring when it is high in the sky in the Northern Hemisphere. Regulus is the brightest star, it marks the lions heart. |
| Who were the earliest sky watchers who kept records? | The Sumerians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, dating back as far as 5000 B.C. |
| How far back do the Greeks go? | 1000 B.C. |
| Describe a "Fixed Star". | Regular stars today. |
| Describe a "Shooting Star". | Known as meteors today. |
| Describe a "Hairy Star". | Known as a comet today. |
| Describe a "Wandering Star". | Known as planets today. |
| What's planetes mean? | It means wanderers, it was given to the Sun, Moon, and planets from the Greeks. |
| What did the Greeks believe? | They believed that Earth was the center of the universe, a perfect sphere, and that everything else (planets, stars, etc.) revolved around Earth. |
| Who to who to who to who to who? | Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy in second century A.D in Alexandria Egypt for 1400 years. Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus in 1500's, died 1543. Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe. Johannes Kepler, Brahes student, concluded Tycho's theory. |
| Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, describe all information. | Adapted a telescope in 1610. He found 4 satellite moons around Jupiter. His findings contradicted the beliefs of the Church. He found the rings of Saturn and a lotta other shite. |
| Greek beliefs, explain. | Artemis, goddess of the Moon, rode her chariot across the sky and shot silver arrows to Earth (silver arrows created mysterious light we know as moonlight). |
| Ancient Hindu beliefs, explain. | The Moon held a special drink that only gods could consume. When they drank the special liquid, the Moon shrank. When they refilled the Moon, it became full again. |
| Inuits of Greenland beliefs, explain. | The Moon god, Anningan, chases his Sun goddess sister Malina across the sky. While chasing her, he forgets to eat and gets thin. He disappears for three days each month and eats, the continues the chase. |
| Mamaiurans beliefs, explain. | At the beginning of time, birds lived in the sky so their wings blocked sunlight, making it always nighttime. The brothers Iae and Kuat hid inside a dead animal and waited to attack Urubutsin, king of birds. They held on his leg till he shared daylight. |
| Japanese beliefs, explain. | Amaterasu, had a younger brother Sunsanoo, god of storms. He destroyed her garden, and she hid in a dark cave, making everything dark. Then another goddess of music and dancing lured her out, and the other gods hung a mirror to reflect Amaterasu's light. |
| The Moon's age? | Between 4.3-4.5 billion years. |
| How was it formed/most believed way? | A Mars-sized asteroid collided with Earth 4.5 billion years ago. The debris was thrown out and joined together into becoming the Moon. |
| The Moon is what? | The Earths natural satellite. |
| Moon facts? | Around 384,000 km away, 3500 km in diameter which is around 1/4 of the size of Earth. It takes 27.3 days to turn once on its axis and that time to orbit Earth. |
| Earth facts? | Around 12756 km in diameter at the equator. |
| What causes day and night? | Earths rotation on its axis. It takes 24 hours to rotate one time (one day) changing its appearance each throughout the month. |
| Leap year? | Earth takes 365 1/4 days to orbit the sun. Every four years, its a leap year so we add an extra day, February 29th, to make up for it. |
| Our Sun the Star! | Our Sun is the only star in our solar system, but in the milky Way, its just one of 100 billion, and there's billions of galaxies in the universe. |
| Sun facts? | 150 million km (93 million miles) from Earth and a diameter of 1,392,000 km, or 400 times the Moon. Also, its 400 times farther from Earth than the Moon. This is why the Moon and Sun seem to be the same size in the sky. |
| More random facts ig, JUST REMEMBER OMG | 1 mil Earths=1 Sun. 109 Earths=Sun's diameter. Models are smaller representations of an object that might be too large, too complex, or too far away to study firsthand. |
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