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1 T or F: Numerous huge fallen boulders and the rarity of their known fall suggest to
Lhwyd a very old Earth.
2 T or F: Before visiting Siccar Point, neither Playfair nor Hall conceived of a world
older than 6000 years.
3 T or F: Canyon Diablo was excavated by a meteorite impact.
4 T or F: Scriptural geologists as Richard Kirwan opposed deistic Huttonian philosophy.
5 T or F: Apollo returned lunar rocks established Moon’s age to be half that
of Earth’s
6 T or F: Eclipses of Jupiter’s moons allowed Roemer to estimate the speed of sound.
7 T or F: Bradley was the first to measure the parallax of a star.
8 T or F: Bessel was the first to measure the parallax of a star.
9 T or F: 61 Cygni is about ten and a half light years from Earth.
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| Hutton, Playfair, Hall, Siccar Point 006-02-01 006-02-02 006-02-03 |
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| Scriptural geology 006-03-01 006-03-02 |
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| ( Gap theory 006-05-01 ) |
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| Canyon Diablo iron meteorite 006-06-01 006-06-02 006-06-03 006-07-01 |
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| Apollo returned lunar rocks 006-08-01 006-08-02 006-08-03 |
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| Roemer, eclipses of Jupiter’s moons 006-09-01 006-09-02 006-09-03 006-09-04 |
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| Bradley, speed of light (given speed of Earth) 006-10-01 |
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| Bessel, parallax of 61 Cygni 006-11-01 |
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1 T or F: Fizeau and Foucault worked as a team to directly measure the speed of light.
2 T or F: Modern astronomy began with the photographic recording of stellar spectra.
3 T or F: Shapley and Curtis debated the size of the solar system.
4 T or F: In 1923, a distantly-faint Cepheid variable in Andromeda was seen by Hubble.
5 T or F: Hooker reflector measures 200 inches in diameter.
6 T or F: Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies are two and a half million light years apart.
7 T or F: A Cepheid variable has an intrinsic brightness inversely related to the rate of
its blink.
8 T or F: Polaris is the morning star.
9 T or F: Henrietta Swan discovered Cepheid variables to be a "yardstick to the
universe."
10 T or F: Hubble Space Telescope is set atop Maui, Hawaii.
11 T or F: Hubble Deep Field is a view of the universe as it was billions of years ago.
12 T or F: Mauna Kea is an active volcano in Hawaii.
13 T or F: Lyman-alpha emission is emitted from hydrogen.
14 T or F: Hubble expanding-universe theory rationalizes the decreasing red shift of ever
more distant galaxies.
15 T or F: 186,000 miles is equivalent to 300,000 kilometers.
16 T or F: Pierre Demarque calculated star ages.
17 T or F: The Hipparcos satellite was designed to make stellar-parallax measurements
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| Shapley versus Curtis 007-03-01-Shapley 007-03-02-Curtis 007-03-03 007-03-04 |
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| Hooker reflector 007-05-01 |
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| Andromeda Galaxy 007-06-01 |
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| Cepheid variable "yardstick to the universe" 007-07-01 007-07-02 |
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| Polaris 007-08-01 007-08-02 |
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| Hubble Space Telescope 007-09-01 |
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| Hubble Deep Field 007-10-01 |
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| Keck Observatory 007-11-01 |
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| Mauna Kea 007-12-01 007-12-02 |
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| Lyman-alpha emission 007-13-01 |
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| Hubble expanding- universe theory 007-14-01 |
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| Speed of light 007-15-01 Demarque Hipparcos satellite |
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1 T or F: Doppler explained the fall of pitch of a train whistle as it passed.
2 T or F: Ballot applied the doppler effect to account for the color of binary stars
3 T or F: Turner refutes the analysis by Tegmark of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy
Probe data
4 T or F: Greene characterizes the Big Bang as a "no-braner."
5 T or F: Woit finds "p-braned" string theories to be not even wrong.
6 T or F: Playfair saw a need to refute Neptunist ideas of de Luc and Kirwan.
7 T or F: Playfair’s Illustrations is a biological treatise.
8 T or F: H. Playfair has written a hagiography of his ancestor Playfair.
9 T or F: The Cartwheel galaxy has Alnitak A in its blue ring of stars.
| Doppler, Ballot 008-01-01 |
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| Turner, 008-02-01 |
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| Cosmic microwave background 008-03-01 |
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| Dark matter, dark energy, atoms 008-04-01 008-04-02 |
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| Tegmark 008-05-01 008-05-02 |
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| Greene 008-06-01 |
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| Branes 008-07-01 |
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| Woit 008-08-01 008-08-02 |
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| Pauli’s phrase "Not even wrong!" 008-09-01 008-09-02 |
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| Playfair 008-10-01 008-10-02 008-10-03 Illustrations. See pages 94-96 in 008-13-01 Playfair, H. reference in 008-14-01 |
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| de Luc 008-11-01 |
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| Kirwan 008-12-01 008-12-02 |
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| Cartwheel galaxy 008-15-01 |
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| Alnitak A 008-16-01 |
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| G2 Sun 008-17-01 008-17-02 008-17-03 |
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