Unit 11 Flashcards
(26 cards)
For the Inuits, Venus is associated with the legend of the great seal hunter Nâlagssartoq. The dark, misanthropic narrative underscores which recurring theme of the Inuit?
Wrong doers were transformed into luminous beings in the sky where they reside for eternity for their evil deeds to be recounted as a warning to successive generations.
According to the reading by Magli 2016 and the lecture slides, what is meant by planetary retrograde motion?
Planets appear to temporarily change direction in their movement against the background stars as seen from Earth
Venus is at its furthest distance from the Sun setting behind it in the evening sky. According to the lecture slides, what position is this called?
Greatest Elongation
According to the encyclopedia entry on Tlahuizcalpantechuhtli and the lecture slides, which two ancient Mesoamerican gods represented each aspect of Venus (morning & evening)?
Quetzalcoatl & Xolotl
According to the lecture slides, if Venus is at full phase directly behind the Sun as viewed from Earth, the configuration is referred to as which of the following?
Superior Conjunction
According to the encyclopedic entry on Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, which of the following is a Mayan ruin that shows evidence for alignment with the extreme declination setting position of Venus?
El Caracol
According to the lecture slides, which of the following is a Mesoamerican deity associated with Venus that throws darts at people?
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli
According to the lecture slides, which of the following was a contribution of Johannes Kepler to understanding the motions of planets?
Their orbits are elliptical
According to the lecture slides, which of the following solar system models features the planets and Sun revolving around the Earth?
Geocentric Model
According to the readings by Williamson and Williamson & Farrer, Venus and Mercury appear as morning and evening stars. The outer planets (Mars, Jupiter, Saturn) can be seen where?
Any other position along the ecliptic
Venus takes about 584 days to go through a cycle in which it reappears in its initial configuration as seen from Earth. According to reading by Magli 2016 and the lecture slides, this is called which of the following?
Synodic Period
The planets follow a path very close to the ecliptic. According to the reading by Williamson, where do they appear in the sky?
High in the night sky during the winter, lower in the sky during the summer
According to the lecture slides, who developed a model of planets going around the Sun on circular orbits?
Copernicus
According to the reading by Magli, what is the only planet for which any kind of connection with astronomically oriented buildings has been argued?
Venus
According to the reading by Magli, Venus extreme declinations have a cycle of how many years?
8 years
Who developed the Heliocentric Model of the Solar System?
Copernicus
Every celestial object appears to go around the Earth once a day. In addition to this motion, which celestial object has the fastest apparent motion in the sky?
the Moon
When it comes to our place in the solar system today, which model do we accept?
Heliocentric
In what fundamental way did the work of Galileo differ from his predecessors who had thought about the sky?
Galileo used instruments and experiments to show him what nature was doing, instead of relying on pure logic
When a planet temporarily moves westward in the sky over the course of several weeks or months (instead of eastward, as it typically does), we call it ____ motion
retrograde
More distant planets appear to move more ____ than planets that are closer to us
slowly
Retrograde motion happened when the superior planets occur at _____
opposition
What causes a small displacement of planets path from the ecliptic?
Planet’s orbital inclinations
Which planet was an important symbol in the “Ghost Dance” movement?
Venus
