Components of the Solar System - Page 4
Questions
- An asteroid has an aphelion distance of 4.6 A.U. and a perihelion distance of 1.8 A.U. How do you calculate the orbital semi major axis, eccentricity, and period?
- Where is the Asteroid Belt?
- How are the sun, moon, and earth positioned relative to each other during a new moon?
- How many light minutes is the Mercury away from the Sun?
- What are the Trojan, Apollo, and Amor asteroids?
- How long does it take to get to the sun from earth?
- How far is Neptune from Pluto?
- What is the Castor's distance from the sun? What is the diameter of the castor star? How far away from the earth is it? How far away is the castor star from the moon?
- If light takes 8 minutes to reach Earth from the sun and 5.3 hours to reach Pluto, what is the approximate distance from the sun to Pluto?
- If you doubled your distance from the center of the solar system, what would happen to your orbital speed?
- What is the distance between Jupiter and our moon?
- Solar system and atom theory? A single atom has a shield and electron around it. The farther the shield, the weaker the attraction of electron. So how about the sun and the planet. Is it the same theory?
- Who first calculated the distance between our sun and the earth?
- If the earth is an average of 9.3 x 10 miles from the sun, how far this distance in kilometer?
- Besides earth, what is the next most inhabitable planet or moon in our solar system?
- How far is Pluto from the sun in AU?
- Do all orbits have a perigee and an apogee?
- What is the distance between the moon and the sun?
- How many planets are between earth and the sun?
- How would you calculate Pluto's aphelion distance?