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Astronomy Review
The Moon, Tides, and Gravitation
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• What is the mean distance of Earth to the moon?
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• Is the moon always the same distance to Earth?
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• How do we know with precision the distance between Earth and the moon?
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• Why does the moon have no atmosphere?
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• How is the moon’s weak gravitational field related to the moon’s escape velocity?
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• What would be the advantage of having a rocket base on the moon?
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• Is there a dark side of the moon?
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• Why is there one side of the moon that we never see?
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• True or false• The moon always shines on half of the moon?
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• When does a full moon set?
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• At what time does a first quarter moon rise?
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• When does a new moon set?
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• If you are a two hundred pound person, how much will you weigh on the moon?
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• If you live on the moon, would you see Earth going through phases?
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• When the moon is a new moon as seen from Earth, what phase would Earth be in as seen from the moon?
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• What characteristic of the moon allows us to study the history of impacts (from asteroids, comets, and meteors) in the early solar system?
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• How can we use the discovery of water on the moon to study the origin of water on Earth?
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• What makes a spring tide?
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• What characterizes a neap tide?
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• Which is a higher tide, a spring tide or a neap tide?
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• Why is the spring tide higher than the neap tide?
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• Where does one piece of evidence that the Earth’s rotation is slowing come from?
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• Why is Earth’s rotation slowing?
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• When we say that a planet or moon is tidally locked, what does that mean?
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• What can a planet’s escape velocity tell us about the mass of a planet?
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• What formula characterizes Newton’s second law?
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• Which of Newton’s laws explains why there is an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter?
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• Assuming ideal conditions, who falls at a faster rate, an elephant or an ant?
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• Why do they fall at the same rate?