❌ STJPII Observing the Solar System

What name did the Greek's give the points of light that they saw in the sky?

In the 1500's, who further developed the heliocentric explanations of the motion of the planets

Who is the person whose ideas about the solar system are largely accepted today?

The solar system consists of the sun, planets, their moons, objects such as comets&asteroids.

A description of the solar system in which all the planets revolve around the sun is called __.

What does wanderers mean?

_____ thought the planets moved on little circles that moved on bigger circles.

In a _____ the Earth is the center of the revolving planets and stars.

Copernicus thought that the planets moved on little circles that moved on bigger circles.

__are patterns of stars that stay in the same positions shape from night to night&year to year.

What planets in order from the sun were discovered after Galileo invented the telescope?

_____ used a telescope to make discoveries that supported the heliocentric model.

Galileo made discoveries through his telescope that supported the heliocentric system.

Observed the positions of the planets for more than 20 years.

What did the Romans name the points of light that the Greeks called planets:

_____ discovered that the orbit of each planet is an ellipse.

_____ is an oval shape, which may be elongated or nearly circular.

Galileo Galilei used a newly invented _____ to make discoveries that supported the _____ model.