The Solar System
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What is the largest dimension of which you have personal sensory experience? Have you ever hiked 10 miles? Run a marathon? Driven across a continent? Flown to the opposite side of Earth?
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Ch. 1 - Prob. 11RQCh. 1 - Where are you in the Universe? If you had to give...Ch. 1 - Prob. 13RQCh. 1 - Prob. 14RQCh. 1 - Prob. 15RQCh. 1 - How do we know? How does the scientific method...Ch. 1 - The equatorial diameter of Earth is 7928 miles. If...Ch. 1 - Prob. 2PCh. 1 - One astronomical unit (AU) is about 1.5 108 km....Ch. 1 - A typical galaxy is shown on the first page of the...Ch. 1 - Prob. 5PCh. 1 - Venus orbits 0.72 AU from the Sun. What is that...Ch. 1 - Light from the Sun takes 8 minutes to reach Earth....Ch. 1 - The Sun is almost 400 times farther from Earth...Ch. 1 - If the speed of light is 3.0 × 105 km/s, how many...Ch. 1 - Prob. 10PCh. 1 - Prob. 11PCh. 1 - Prob. 12PCh. 1 - How many galaxies like our own would it take if...Ch. 1 - Arrange the following in order of increasing size:...Ch. 1 - Arrange the following in order of increasing...Ch. 1 - Prob. 3SPCh. 1 - Prob. 4SPCh. 1 - Look at the center of Figure 1–4. Approximately...Ch. 1 - Look at Figure 1-6. How can you tell that Mercury...Ch. 1 - Prob. 3LLCh. 1 - Look at Figure 1-9. Would you say that the...Ch. 1 - Prob. 5LLCh. 1 - Prob. 6LL
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