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Put these in order from closed to you to farthest away.
you, Earth, Local Group, Local Supercluster, solar system, Milky Way |
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| d) you, Earth, solar system, Milky Way, Local Group, Local Supercluster |
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| The path of the earth’s orbit about the Sun |
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| A tropical year is not the same as the a sidereal year due to what? |
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| the precession of earth’s axis of rotation |
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| A solar day is longer than a sidereal day due to what? |
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| Earth’s rotation about the Sun |
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| Amount of arcseconds in a degree |
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| Amount of arcminutes in a degree |
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| The apparent displacement of a foreground object relative to the background due to changes in observer’s position |
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| The boundary between the earth and the sky |
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| Amount of constellations in the zodiac |
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| The gravitational force of the Moon |
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| Cause of Earth’s precession (the slow movement of the axis of a spinning body around another axis due to a torque acting to change the direction of the first axis.) |
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