Otherbodies Flashcards

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Surface of io has these

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Active volcanoes

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Moon that may have life

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Triton

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Ios heat is due to the gravity of this

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Jupiters gravity

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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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Rings are made of

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Ice and dust

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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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Plutos moon is called

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Charon

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

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Io

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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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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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Meteor that strikes earths surface

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Meteor found in space

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Where are most asteroids found

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Asteroid belt

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Tail of a comet points away from sun due to

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2 types of meteoroids

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Iron and nickel

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ELE

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Extinction level event

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Asteroids were concerned about

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Earth crossing

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Largest moon in solar system

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Europa probably has life because of

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Moon of Uranus blown apart and put back together
Miranda
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Mimas
Saturn | Death Star
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Io erupts
Sulfur
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Miranda
Uranus
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Order of saturns rings from inner to outer
D C B A
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Enceladus
Coated with ice Saturn Erupts ice
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Neptunes moon
Tritan
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Roche limit
Limit={2.5}radius | Moon orbits inside of this distance the gravity of the parent planets could tear it apart
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Why doesn't Pluto fit? 3
1: too small 2: orbit doesn't fit 3: not Jovian or terrestrial
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Pluto originated here
Kaiser belt
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2 kinds of comet tails
1: dust 2: ion
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Most comets originate here
Kuiper belt
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As a comet approaches the sun, this develops
Hydrogen envelope
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Aerogel is used to study
Comets dust
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Largest part of planet
Striae