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Otherbodies Flashcards

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Surface of io has these

A

Active volcanoes

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1
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Moon that may have life

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Triton

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2
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Ios heat is due to the gravity of this

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Jupiters gravity

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3
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How many Galilean moons are there

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4
Io
Europa
Gangymede
Castilla
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4
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Around which planet do the Galilean moons rotate

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Jupiter

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5
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Rings are made of

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Ice and dust

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6
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Tritan and Pluto are probably both members of this area of the solar system

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Kuiper belt

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7
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Plutos moon is called

A

Charon

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8
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Tristan has had volcanoes on it erupting

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Snow

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9
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All of the gas giants have rings around them

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True

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10
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Some of saturns rings are kept in their orbits by the gravity of

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Shepard moons

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11
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The next satirize that will be ground down into a series of rings will be

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Io

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12
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The only planet that has an orbit so tilted it moves into and out of the planes of other planets

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Pluto

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13
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Moons (quiz)

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63
50
27
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14
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Area where comets originate

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Oort Cloud

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15
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Meteor that strikes earths surface

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Meteorite

16
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Meteor found in space

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Meteoroid

17
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Where are most asteroids found

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Asteroid belt

18
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Tail of a comet points away from sun due to

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Solar wind

19
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2 types of meteoroids

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Iron and nickel

20
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ELE

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Extinction level event

21
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Asteroids were concerned about

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Earth crossing

22
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Largest moon in solar system

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Gangdemene

23
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Europa probably has life because of

A

Saline

24
Q

Moon of Uranus blown apart and put back together

A

Miranda

25
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Mimas

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Saturn

Death Star

26
Q

Io erupts

A

Sulfur

27
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Miranda

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Uranus

28
Q

Order of saturns rings from inner to outer

A

D
C
B
A

29
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Enceladus

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Coated with ice
Saturn
Erupts ice

30
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Neptunes moon

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Tritan

31
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Roche limit

A

Limit={2.5}radius

Moon orbits inside of this distance the gravity of the parent planets could tear it apart

32
Q

Why doesn’t Pluto fit? 3

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1: too small
2: orbit doesn’t fit
3: not Jovian or terrestrial

33
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Pluto originated here

A

Kaiser belt

34
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2 kinds of comet tails

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1: dust
2: ion

35
Q

Most comets originate here

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Kuiper belt

36
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As a comet approaches the sun, this develops

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Hydrogen envelope

37
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Aerogel is used to study

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Comets dust

38
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Largest part of planet

A

Striae

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