Astronomers, Planets, Orbits

3 laws of planetary motion

• Galileo

• Copernicus

• Newton

• Kepler

Gravity is the reason the planets orbit the sun

• Newton

• Galileo

• Kepler

• Copernicus

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First to use a telescope to view the sky

• Kepler

• Newton

• Galileo

• Ptolemy

Explained that the planets follow elliptical orbits

• Newton

• Galileo

• Copernicus

• Kepler

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Which astronomer believed in the geocentric model of the universe?

• Galileo

• Ptolemy

• Newton

• Kepler

Made excellent observations of planetary motion without a telescope

• Galileo

• Copernicus

• Brahe

• Kepler

Who came first?

• Galileo

• Copernicus

• Kepler

• Brahe

Believed in the heliocentric model of the universe

• Archimede

• Ptolemy

• Galileo

• Aristotle

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Earth is the center of the solar system

• Newtonian Model

• Geocentric Model

• Copernican Model

• Heliocentric Model

The measure of the flatness of a circle

• Epicycle

• Eccentricity

• Ellipse

• Semi-major axis