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JGIBBSON

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Which statement about the ecliptic is FALSE?
 
  A) The Sun appears to move about a degree per day eastward long it.
  B) It is tilted 23.5 degrees with respect to the equator.
  C) The year is marked by the Sun's return to the same place along it.
  D) The Moon can never leave it, but moves twelve times faster than the Sun.
  E) The major planets stay close to it, but not always on it.

Question 2

For a star of 10 solar masses, its main sequence life span will be:
 
  A) ten times longer than our Sun's.
  B) about the same as the Sun's.
  C) only a tenth of the Sun's.
  D) about a hundred times less than the Sun's.
  E) only 1/1000th of the Sun.



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mirabriestensky

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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

E



JGIBBSON

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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again




 

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