Aero 3 Quiz 1 Flashcards
- Minor Spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy
- 3,500 light-years across
- 10,000 light-years in length
- Contains the Solar System
Orion Arm
- The moon’s orbit where it farthest from Earth
Apogee
- The moon’s orbit where it closest from Earth
Perigee
- The recurring increase and decrease in the number of sunspots over a period averaging about eleven years
Sunspot Cycle
- Specific type of fusion that occurs inside the Sun
- Hydrogen being converted into helium
Solar Fusion
What is approximate diameter of the Solar System?
What were the these series of newspaper articles called that advocated for approval of a new Constitution?
The Federalist Papers
Wilmington (KILG), 2 runways, ~52,000 flights a year
Delaware
Philadelphia International (KPHL), 4 runways, ~72,000 flights a year
Pennsylvania
- American space scientist at the University of Iowa
- Instrumental in establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space
James Van Allen
- American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator
- Well known as a pioneer in the field of exobiology
- Among the first to determine that life could have existed on Mars
Carl Sagan
The colourful display of light seen in the night sky in the Northern hemisphere
Aurora Borealis
The colourful display of lights seen in the night sky in the Southern Hemisphere
Aurora Australis
The Troposphere, Stratosphere, and the ionosphere, which consists of the Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere
earth’s Atmosphere
- A spaceport in an area of Southern Kazakhstan leased to Russia
- The world’s first spaceport for orbital and human launches and the largest operational space launch facility
- All crewed Russian space flights are launched from here
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Who were the three main authors of the Federalist Papers?
John jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison
Newark Liberty International (KEWR), 3 runways, >40 mil flights a year
New Jersey
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (KATL), 5 parallel runways, over 1,000 flights a year
Georgia
Are the Van Allen belts a radiation hazard for human beings?
Yes
- Defunct human-made object in space- principally in Earth orbit0 which no longer serve a useful function
Space Pollution
A reduced-gravity aircraft that is a fixed-wing aircraft that provides brief near-weightless environments for training astronauts, conducting research and making gravity-free movie shots.
Vomit Comet
- Freezes and boils almost simultaneously in the “vacuum” of space due to no pressure
Vacuum Boiling
- Austro-Hungarian born German physicist and engineer
- Considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics
- Supported Nazi Germany’s Aggregate rocket program during WW2
Hermann Oberth
- Located on Merritt Island, Florida
- One of NASA’s ten field centers
- NASA”s primary launch center of human spaceflight
Kennedy Space Center
- American robotic space probe launched by NASA on 3 November 1973 to fly by Mercury and Venus
- The first spacecraft to perform flybys of multiple planets
- Last of it’s program
Mariner 10
- Thick and toxic filled with carbon dioxide and it’s perpetually shrouded in thick, yellowish clouds of sulfuric acid thta traps heat, causing a runway greenhous effect
Atmosphere of Venus
A type of intrusive ingenious rock composed predominantly of calcium-rich plagioclase feldspar.
- Formed during Precambrian times
Anorthosite
