Unit 9 - The Solar System

Which objects tend to have the most eccentric orbits?

The reason for the season(s):

What happens to gravitational attraction if objects move four times closer?

On the northern hemisphere's summer solstice, which is NOT true for Minnesota?

What happens to the gravitational attraction if you halve the mass?

Which is NOT a piece of evidence of early Earth history?

Because of the elliptical orbits, Kepler's second law states that planet velocities:

MN Trivia: What is the official state muffin?

Which is direct evidence of the nebular formation of our solar system?

Grab a calculator: if an orbital period is 542 years, what is the distance to the sun?

The sun's direct light (90º) is located between what two lines throughout the year?

Which model had the Earth at the center of the solar system?

Which part of our solar system is the farthest away from the sun?

A circular orbit would have an eccentricity of zero, whereas a flattened circle would have what eccentricity?

P² = a³

Earth's tilt is:

Besides the sun, which set of objects contains the most mass in our solar system?

Earth's eccentricity is considered...

Which term describes the Earth's closest position to the sun?

Grab a calculator: calculate the eccentricity when foci distance is 0.7 and major axis distance is 43.2