A planet is furthest from the Sun in its elliptical orbit when it is at
A) apogee
B) aphelion
C) perigee
D) perihelion
B
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When red light illuminates a grating with 7000. lines per centimeter, its second maximum is at 62.4°. What is the wavelength of the light?
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The Milky Way galaxy is part of
a. the Virgo cluster. b. the Large Magellanic Cloud. c. the Small Magellanic Cloud. d. the Local Group. e. a rich cluster.
Planetary rings are
A) nearer to their planet than any of the planet's large moons. B) orbiting in the equatorial plane of their planet. C) composed of a large number of individual particles that orbit their planet in accord with Kepler's third law. D) known to exist for all of the jovian planets in our solar system. E) All of the above