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Planets orbit the Sun in a shape called a(n)
Circle
Focus
Perihelion
Ellipse
When a planet orbits the Sun, one of the foci of the elliptical orbit is
The axis
The center
The sun
The perihelion
Kepler's 2nd Law deals with
the shape of the planets' orbits
the speed/area the planet travels
the length of time it takes the planet to orbit the sun
If I double the mass of one object, but don't change anything else... What happens to the gravitational force between two objects?
Doubles
Quadruples
Cut in Half
4x Smaller
Complete the following statement: The farther away two planets are the _______ the gravitational force between them.
more
same
doesn't matter
less
The law of universal gravitation is credited to whom?
Einstein
Beckett
Rose
Newton
What states that "every object in the universe attracts every other object"?
Law of Universal Gravitation
Newton's First Law of Motion
Newton's Third Law
Inertia & gravity
