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1. Planet Earth
What shape is the earth describe ...,
What are the layers of the earth 2,
What are the features of the crust 3
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2. The Lunar Disc
What is the shape of the moon 1,
What do craters on the moon look ...,
What do maria on the moon look li...
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3. Earth, Moon & Sun
How did eratosthenes use observat...,
How did aristarchus use observati...,
How do the sun and moon produce h...
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4. Time and the Earth, Moon, Sun System
How is the position of the sun us...,
How is the mean sun used to deter...,
How is local mean time found lmt 3
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5. Solar System Observation
Describe the pinhole projection m...,
What is the ecliptic 2,
What is the zodiacal band 3
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6. Celestial Observation
What do the stars look like to th...,
What do star clusters look like t...,
What do galaxies nebulae look lik...
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6. Celestial Observations - Calculations
Polar distance 1,
Altitude of star at upper transit 2,
Altitude of star at lower transit 3
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7. Early Models of the Solar System
How did ancient civilisations use...,
How did ancient civilisations use...,
How did ancient civilisations use...
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8. Planetary Motion and Gravity
How did tycho brahe contribute to...,
How did copernicus maths models c...,
How did keplers maths models cont...
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9 - Exploring the Moon
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10 - Solar Astronomy
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11 - Exploring the Solar System
What is the structure of comets 1,
Describe the orbits of short peri...,
Describe the orbit of long period...
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12 - Formation of Planetary Systems
What forces produce orbits of pla...,
What forces produce regular motio...,
What is chaotic motion 3
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13 - Exploring Starlight (pt1)
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13 - Exploring Starlight (pt2)
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14 - Stellar Evolution
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15 - Our Place in the Galaxy
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16 - Cosmology
What is redshift 1,
How do you calculate redshift 2,
What is hubble s law 3
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