All around the world, ancient cultures celebrated heroes, gods, and mythical beasts by naming groups of stars called _____
A) satellites
B) constellations
C) wormholes
D) comets
B
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Identify a true statement about carbonaceous chondrites
A) They contain significant amounts of helium. B) They contain abundant volatile compounds. C) They have been heated many times since their formation. D) They are the most-altered remains of the solar nebula.
Which of the following statements is not one of Newton's Laws of Motion?
A) What goes up must come down. B) The rate of change of momentum of an object is equal to the net force applied to the object. C) In the absence of a net force acting upon it, an object moves with constant velocity. D) For any force, there always is an equal and opposite reaction force.
In which wavelength region(s) would we need to carry out observations in order to study the accretion disk around a white dwarf in a binary system?
A) visible light B) ultraviolet light C) X-ray light D) A and B E) B and C
The average distance from Earth to the sun is defined as one astronomical unit (AU). If an asteroid orbits the sun in 1/3 of a year in a circular orbit, the asteroid's distance from the sun is closest to
A) 0.48 AU. B) 0.19 AU. C) 2.1 AU. D) 0.33 AU. E) 5.2 AU.