Exam 16: The Universe

Planets in a planetary system other than the solar system

Gravity acting on ______________ played an important role in the condensation process of forming nebulae.

Other planetary systems are best detected by the Doppler shifts that change the pattern of the star's ______________.

The most distant planet that can be seen with the unaided eye is

The planet with Red Spot Junior is

The dominant mass of the solar system is the ______________.

Kepler's second law of planetary motion is known as the law of

The fourth planet from the Sun is ______________.

Kepler's first law states that Earth's orbit around the Sun takes the shape of a(n) ______________.

The planet with the most prominent rings is

According to today's classification system, how many major planets are there in the solar system?

Calculate the value of the constant k in Kepler's harmonic law, using values for Earth from Table 16.1 in the textbook (1 year can be used for the period, and 1 AU can be used for the mean distance to the Sun).

The large, central portion of a swirling solar nebula is called a(n) ______________.

The closest planet to Earth is

The surface of the terrestrial planet ______________ cannot be seen from Earth.

The planet with the largest number of moons is

Which of the following is a technique used by astronomers in their search for other planetary systems?

The flattened, rotating disk of gas and dust around the protosun, from which planets were believed to have formed, is called the

Other planetary systems are detected by a "wobbling" of the star as a consequence of ______________ effects of a planet.

The geocentric model of the solar system is attributed to