Ch 3 True/False – Flashcards
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Aristotle proposed that all planets revolve around the Sun.
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during retrograde motion, planets actually stop and move backward in space.
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the heliocentric model of the solar system holds that the Sun is at the center and everything else moves around it.
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Copernicus's theories did not gain widespread scientific acceptance during his lifetime.
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Kepler's laws hold only for the six planets known in his time.
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you throuw a baseball to someone, before the ball is caught, it is temporarily in orbit around Earth's center.
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the total mass of all the planets is much less than the mass of the Sun.
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the solar system is of largely uniform composition.
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