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115.Name the astronomer who discovered that Mars orbits the sun in an elliptical orbit.
KEPLER
116.Name the phase that the moon is in for each type of eclipse, lunar and solar:
FULL MOON FOR LUNAR AND NEW MOON FOR SOLAR
117.The orbital plane of the moon is how many degrees inclined from the ecliptic?
5 DEGREES
118.Which JOVIAN planet rotates slower than the earth?
NONE
119.Neptune is closest in SIZE to which planet?
URANUS
120.Is a sunspot hotter, cooler, or about the same temperature as the region around it?
COOLER
121. In the lowest level of the photosphere of the Sun, the temperature is:
6,000 DEGREES KELVIN
122.A Galactic year is the length of time that it takes our sun to orbit the galaxy. In Earth years, how long
is a Galactic year?
230 MILLION YEARS
123.Multiple Choice: A first magnitude star is how many times brighter than a second magnitude star?
2.5
124.What is the name of the star that is the BRIGHTEST in the sky?
SIRIUS
125.Which of the following constellations has more bright stars than any other constellation?
ORION
126.A line through the three stars in Orion's belt points toward which one of the following stars?
SIRIUS
127.A pulsar is actually a:
NEUTRON STAR
128. In the Milky Way there are approximately
200 BILLION STARS
129.Which of the following words best describes the shape of our galaxy?
SPIRAL
130.What is the name of the star CLOSEST to our sun?
PROXIMA CENTAURI
131.On February 9, 1991, ROSAT, an orbiting observatory, finished the first ever all-sky survey of:
X-RAYS
132.On what planet does a "year" last only 88 days?
MERCURY
133.The Asteroid Belt is between the orbits of which two planets?
MARS AND JUPITER