AE Orbit Types Assessment (Part 1)

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AE Orbit Types Assessment (Part 1)

Last updated 3 months ago

16 questions

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Draggable item		Corresponding Item

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All circles are ellipses and all ellipses are circles.

True

False

Kepler has two different sets of laws of orbital motion. One set applies to planets orbiting the Sun, and the other set applies to man-made satellites orbiting the Earth.

True

False

Label each ellipse with the correct eccentricities.

Draggable item		Corresponding Item
B		0
C		0.7
A		0.4

To make the pictured ellipse more circular, you should move foci A and B _________.

closer together

further apart

so that one is outside the existing ellipse

so that they align vertically

What is the name of the "radii" labelled A in the pictured ellipse?

A circular orbit has an apogee roughly twice the altitude of its perigee.

True

False

Label the position indicated with the A in the pictured orbit.

Both size (semi-major axis and/or altitude) and eccentricity play an important role in determining the period of the orbit.

True

False

The Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977 to explore the solar system and beyond. In 2008, it was entering the region between our solar system and interstellar space known as the heliosheath. It is the furthest manmade object from the Eatch and it continuing its journey into the unknown. Based on what you have learned about orbital elements, the eccentricity of Voyager is greater than 1.

True

False

This philosopher believed that everything rotates around the Earth.

Who developed the Keplerian Element Set which describes the orbital parameters of satellites' orbits?

Many of Kepler's theories were based on the documentation of this philosopher that he worked with for a short time.

This scientist was the first to use a telescope to help prove heliocentric theory.

This philosopher was the first to propose heliocentric theory.

_________________ is the angle between the Earth’s equatorial plane and the
plane of the orbit. It describes the tilt of the orbit.

The point in an orbit that is closest to the Earth.

All circles are ellipses and all ellipses are circles.

True

False

Kepler has two different sets of laws of orbital motion. One set applies to planets orbiting the Sun, and the other set applies to man-made satellites orbiting the Earth.

True

False

Label each ellipse with the correct eccentricities.

B

0

C

0.7

A

0.4

To make the pictured ellipse more circular, you should move foci A and B _________.

closer together

further apart

so that one is outside the existing ellipse

so that they align vertically

What is the name of the "radii" labelled A in the pictured ellipse?

apogee

semi-major axis

semi-minor axis

focal point

inclination

eccentricity

perigee

A circular orbit has an apogee roughly twice the altitude of its perigee.

True

False

Label the position indicated with the A in the pictured orbit.

inclination

major axis

apogee

perigee

focal point

eccentricity

minor axis

center

Both size (semi-major axis and/or altitude) and eccentricity play an important role in determining the period of the orbit.

True

False

The Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977 to explore the solar system and beyond. In 2008, it was entering the region between our solar system and interstellar space known as the heliosheath. It is the furthest manmade object from the Eatch and it continuing its journey into the unknown. Based on what you have learned about orbital elements, the eccentricity of Voyager is greater than 1.

True

False

This philosopher believed that everything rotates around the Earth.

Kepler

Galileo

Brahe

Aristotle

Copernicus

Newton

Who developed the Keplerian Element Set which describes the orbital parameters of satellites' orbits?

Galileo Galilei

Aristotle

Johannes Kepler

Nicolaus Copernicus

Sir Isaac Newton

Many of Kepler's theories were based on the documentation of this philosopher that he worked with for a short time.

Galileo Galilei

Nicolaus Copernicus

Tycho Brahe

Sir Isaac Newton

Aristotle

This scientist was the first to use a telescope to help prove heliocentric theory.

Galileo Galilei

Nicolaus Copernicus

Sir Isaac Newton

Tycho Brahe

Aristotle

This philosopher was the first to propose heliocentric theory.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Tycho Brahe

Galileo Galilei

Sir Isaac Newton

Aristotle

_________________  is the angle between the Earth’s equatorial plane and the
plane of the orbit. It describes the tilt of the orbit.

Eccentricity

Inclination

Eccentric Angle

Angle of Apogee

Inclined Plane

Angle of Perigee

Sublimation

The point in an orbit that is closest to the Earth.

semi-minor axis

semi-major axis

perigee

apogee

inclination

major axis

eccentricity

focal point

AE Orbit Types Assessment (Part 1)

AE Orbit Types Assessment (Part 1)

All circles are ellipses and all ellipses are circles.

Kepler has two different sets of laws of orbital motion. One set applies to planets orbiting the Sun, and the other set applies to man-made satellites orbiting the Earth.

Label each ellipse with the correct eccentricities.

To make the pictured ellipse more circular, you should move foci A and B _________.

What is the name of the "radii" labelled A in the pictured ellipse?

A circular orbit has an apogee roughly twice the altitude of its perigee.

Label the position indicated with the A in the pictured orbit.

Both size (semi-major axis and/or altitude) and eccentricity play an important role in determining the period of the orbit.

This philosopher believed that everything rotates around the Earth.

Who developed the Keplerian Element Set which describes the orbital parameters of satellites' orbits?

Many of Kepler's theories were based on the documentation of this philosopher that he worked with for a short time.

This scientist was the first to use a telescope to help prove heliocentric theory.

This philosopher was the first to propose heliocentric theory.

_________________ is the angle between the Earth’s equatorial plane and theplane of the orbit. It describes the tilt of the orbit.

The point in an orbit that is closest to the Earth.

_________________ is the angle between the Earth’s equatorial plane and the
plane of the orbit. It describes the tilt of the orbit.