Astronomy Terms: Telescope Capabilities, Tides, Eclipses, Planets, and Space Travel, Quizzes of Astronomy

Various terms related to astronomy, including the largest magnification for a telescope, smallest detail resolvable on the moon, definition of tidal lock, saturn's rings, spring tide, limitations of telescope resolution, number of tides per day, lunar eclipse phase, frequency of total lunar eclipses, escape velocity, difficulty observing mars, copernicus' contribution, definition of a comet, reason no spacecraft has landed on jupiter, stars' source of light, kepler's laws, discovery of neptune, farthest object visited by spacecraft, solar system's composition, galileo's contribution, asteroids, non-existence of liquids in vacuum, weightlessness in space, discovery of the law of general gravitation, heliocentric world, invention enabling rocket to orbit, importance of kepler's laws, rocket engine working time, and ptolemy's geocentric beliefs.

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TERM 1
What is the largest reasonable magnification
for a good and large telescope?
DEFINITION 1
400
TERM 2
what is the smallest detail we can still resolve
on the moon with a telescope?
DEFINITION 2
a mile
TERM 3
what is tidal lock?
DEFINITION 3
a satellite showing the same face to its planet all the time
TERM 4
what is saturn's ring made of?
DEFINITION 4
many small ice particles
TERM 5
when is spring tide?
DEFINITION 5
at full and new moon
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What is the largest reasonable magnification

for a good and large telescope?

TERM 2

what is the smallest detail we can still resolve

on the moon with a telescope?

DEFINITION 2

a mile

TERM 3

what is tidal lock?

DEFINITION 3

a satellite showing the same face to its planet all the time

TERM 4

what is saturn's ring made of?

DEFINITION 4

many small ice particles

TERM 5

when is spring tide?

DEFINITION 5

at full and new moon

what limits the resolution power and the

magnification of most telescopes?

seeing

TERM 7

how many tides are there a day?

DEFINITION 7

TERM 8

at what phase of the moon is a lunar eclipse

possible?

DEFINITION 8

full moon

TERM 9

how often can we see a total lunar eclipse in

a particular city, on average?

DEFINITION 9

once a year

TERM 10

what is escape velocity and how much is the

escape velocity from earth?

DEFINITION 10

the speed needed to get a spaceship on an orbit to which it

never returns to earth; 12 km/s

what is kepler's third law?

the size of the orbit of a planet is related to the time of its

revolution around the sun

TERM 17

how has neptune been discovered?

DEFINITION 17

by pen and paper. Le Verrier calculated its mass and orbit

from the gravitational pull it exerts on uranus

TERM 18

which of the following is the farthest object

ever visited by (unmanned) spacecraft?

DEFINITION 18

neptune

TERM 19

which of the following takes up most of the

solar system?

DEFINITION 19

empty space

TERM 20

what does kepler's first law state?

DEFINITION 20

under the influence of gravity, an object revolving around

another moves on an orbit in the shape of an ellipse or a

hyperbola

what was Galileo's most important

contribution to science?

he used a telescope to study the sky

TERM 22

what is an asteroid?

DEFINITION 22

space rock

TERM 23

which of the following does not exist in

vacuum?

DEFINITION 23

liquids

TERM 24

how high up does a spaceship have to travel

to experience weightlessness?

DEFINITION 24

weightlessness is experienced in a freely flying spaceship. a

spaceship needs to fly up a hundred miles to get on an orbit

TERM 25

who discovered the law of general

gravitation?

DEFINITION 25

sir isaac newton

Ptolemy held that...

Earth was immobile, and it formed the center of the Universe.