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List all 8 Planets   Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune  
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Name the 4 Terrestrial Planets   Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Earth  
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Name the 4 Jovian Planets   Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune  
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What is the hottest Planet?   Venus  
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What is the largest volcano in the Solar System? and which Planet does it exist on?   Olympic Mons; Mars  
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What is the largest Planet?   Jupiter  
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List 2 characteristics of Jupter   Equitorial bulge; Rings  
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What is the fastest spinning Planet?   Jupiter  
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What is the most volcanically active object in space?   Io; a moon of Jupiter  
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What is the largest moon of Jupiter?   Ganymede  
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What is the surface of Jupiter's moon, Callisto?   A sub surface ocean  
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What is the least dense Planet?   Saturn  
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What Planet has the largest equatorial bulge?   Saturn  
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Which Planet has the largest ring system?   Saturn  
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What is Saturn's largest moon?   Titan  
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Which is the only moon with an atmosphere?   Titan  
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What is Uranus's tilt?   98 Degrees  
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What is the most dense Jovian Planet?   Neptune  
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Which law explains the positions of planets in AU?   Titius-Bode Law  
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Who found the Asteroid Belt?   Giuseppe Piazzi  
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What is the largest Asteroid?   Ceres  
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What is the distance where Asteroids do not exist?   "Kirkwood" gaps  
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What are NEO's?   Near Earth Objects  
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What is a Type 1 Comet?   Ion Tail  
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What is a Type 2 Comet?   Dust Tail  
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What is a Radiant Point?   The point in the sky from which the meteors APPEAR to be coming from  
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How far away is the Sun from the Earth?   93 Million miles  
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What are the 3 Mechanisms of Heat Transfer?   Conduction, Convection, and Radiation  
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How does the Sun produce energy?   Nuclear Fusion  
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When does Nuclear Fusion occur?   10 Million Kelvin  
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What causes sunspots?   Magnetic Fields  
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What is the surface temperature of the Sun?   5500 Kelvin  
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What are the 3 basic things on the Sun's surface?   Spicules, Prominences, and Solar Flares  
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What are Spicules?   Grass-like columns  
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What are Prominences?   Hydrogen suspended by a magnetic field  
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What are Solar Flares?   Sun Quakes  
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What is star brightness measured in?   Magnitude  
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Who came up with ranking Brightness?   Hipparchus  
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Who started "apparent magnitude" and used m?   N.R. Pogson  
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What is the brightest star?   Sirius  
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What is Absolute Magnitude?   (M) is apparent magnitude at a fixed distance  
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What is Apparent Magnitude?   (m) is based on what we can see  
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What is not accounted for in Absolute Magnitude?   Distance  
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What is a Parallax?   the "movement" of stars because of Earth's rotation  
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If a star appears to move a lot...   it is closer  
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What is Luminosity?   Power emitted by a star  
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What is the Wien Displacement Law?   Color and Temperature are related  
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What is Stefan-Boltzmann Law?   Brightness and Temperature are related  
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What is the Spectral Classification?   (hottest) OBAFGKM (coolest)  
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What color are O, B, A stars?   Bluish-White  
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What color are F, G stars?   Yellowish  
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What color are K, M stars?   Orange-Redish  
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What is the Spectral Classification of the Sun?   G-2-V  
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What are the Luminosity Classes?   The stages of stars  
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What is the 5th (V) class?   The Main Sequence  
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What is the HR diagram?   Graph of Brightness vs Color of stars  
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Where do 90% of all stars lie along?   The Main Sequence  
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What are the 3 types of Star Motion?   Radial, Proper, and Wobble  
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What is Radial star motion?   Moving toward us (blue = toward) (red = away)  
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What is Proper star motion?   Across horizontally  
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What is Wobble star motion?   Wobble due to gravity  
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What is a Variable Star?   One that changes Brightness  
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What do Variable Stars serve as?   Indicators of Distance  
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What is the most common Variable Star?   Cephed  
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