Earth orbits/Astronomy/Quiz
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Earth-orbit astronomy is a lecture of radiation astronomy courses project that may be included in courses like principles of radiation astronomy.
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You are free to take this quiz at any time.
Once you’ve read and studied the lecture itself, the links contained within the article/lecture, listed under See also, External links, and in the {{radiation astronomy resources}} template, you should have adequate background to get 100 %.
Suggestion: Have the lecture available in a separate window.
Enjoy learning by doing!
Quiz
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Hypotheses
edit- Earth-orbit astronomy from sufficient altitude should be able to almost replace sounding rockets.
- The much lower cost of balloons or sounding rockets keeps them as a value.
See also
editExternal links
edit- International Astronomical Union
- NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database - NED
- The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
- SDSS Quick Look tool: SkyServer
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- SIMBAD Web interface, Harvard alternate
- Universal coordinate converter
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