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moongchi

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on: Jul 27, 2018
An X-ray burster occurs in a pulsar when ____.
 
  a. accreted helium suddenly fuses in a nova-like explosion
 b. the Chandrasekhar limit is exceeded and the object collapses
 c. carbon deflagration destroys the object
 d. it merges with a binary companion
 e. hydrogen fusion ignites in an accretion disk around it

Question 2

Which model did Galileo disprove by discovering the transit of Venus?
 
  a. Ptolemaic
 b. Copernican
  c. Aristotelian
  d. Plutonic
 e. Kepler


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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

a


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