ASTR 101 chapters 10-16 review

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A computer accessory salesman attempts to convince you to purchase a "solar neutrino" shield for your new computer. Why ill you turn down this excellent offer?(it's even "on sale") According to modern science, approximately how old is the sun? According to our theory of solar system formation,what is Pluto According to the nebular theory, what are asteroids and comets At the center of the sun, fusion converts hydrogen into what? Based on our current theory of the earth's formation, the water we drink comes from?

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If the Sun suddenly stopped emitting neutrinos, what might we infer(after checking that our neutrino detectors were still operational)? Saturn's bands, oval strom systems, and turbulent flow patterns are powered by what? Since the Jovian planets do not have where a spacecraft could be "landed" for earthquakes wave probe of their interiors, what yields an evidence of the interior compositions of the Jovian planets? The age of the solar system can be established by radioactive dating of what? The light we see from the sun comes from which layer?

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the sun is approximately 4.57 billion the nebular theory

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Comets and Asteroids are the same, but difer in the fact that Comets have surface activity with their characteristics trait Helium

astronomers have several tools to probe the interiors of planets 1.observing the rotation of a planet 2. the rate of precession depends on a parameter the oldest meteorites

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the earth grew by countless impacts from rock and dust in early solar system. This rock and dust contained ice which turned to vapors(steam) when it struck earth.over time the crust of the earth cooled and eventually the vapor condensed into the liquid water we drink Covection

photoshere is the layer below which the sun becomes opaque to the visible light they were bombarded in their youth by many solid objects It was discovered by the fact that it showed a disk when viewed through even a fairly low powered telescope. Phobos and Deimos they consist of countless small particles ranging in size from micrometeres to metres, that form clumps that in turn orbit about Saturn every member of the solar system revolves around some other member in an elliptical orbit the main role dust was the formation of rocky planets. in the formation of rings of gas gaints

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The numerous craters we see on the solid surface of so many solar system bodies are evidence of what? The orbit of Uranus,discovered in 1781 did not seem to follow the predictions of Newtons laws. Why was this so? What are Mars two moons named? What are Saturns' rings?

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By what mechanism does solar energy reach the sun photosphere from the layer just underneath it? Consider: our Moon,Jupiter,Halley's comet,Mars,a meteor. Which shine by reflected sunlight? From center outward, list the "layers" of the sun in the correct order/ How does the Sun generate energy today? How long do the numbers of sunspots and their activity peak?

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What are the observed pattern of motion in our solar system

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What are the primary role of dust in the formation of the solar system?

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What causes the aurora borealis?

Aurora are colorful lights in the night time sky primarily appearing in Earths polar regions energetic charged particles from the megnetospher the immediate cause of aurora are precipitating energetic particles most are uncharged sine their formation in the solar nebula the age of the solar system is approximately 4.6 billion years they all occur from Sun's magnetic fields. The intense magnetic fields associated with sunspots might cause promineces, which are huge arching columns of gas Micrometeors

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What is the origin of the Jupiter's moons?

formed from a circumplanetary disk a ring of accreting gas and solid debris analogous to protoplanetary disk ... the sun generates its energy by nuclear fusion of hydrogen nuclei into helium in other words it is so hot it turns hydrogen into Helium the energy is like that of a million nuclear bombs meteor showers occur when the earth passes through this trail of debris during its yearly orbit around the sun 10,000 degrees F the core average 29,000,00 degrees F ...

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What is the solar wind? What is the source of energy that keeps the sun shining today

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What do Asteroids and Comets have in common? What do meteorites reveal about the solar system? What do sunspots, solar prominences, and solar flares all have in common What do we call a small piece of solar system debris found on Earth? What does the low average densities of Jupiter and Saturn compared with the earth's suggest? What is a meteorite? What is an icy leftover planrtesimal orbitng the Sun called What is Charon? What is it about the Sun's corona that astronomers don't understand? What is the birth place of comets? What is the bright streak of light which a meteorid traces across the sky as seen from the earth called? What is the name of the core of the sun? What is the name used to describe the dark bands encircling Jupiter?

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What is the source of meteor shower debris?

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What is the Sun's average surface (photosphere) temperature? What is the Sun's surface, as we see it with our eyes called? what name do we call a rocky leftover planetesimal orbiting the sun

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they contain large quantities of light elements such as hydrogen and helium this is why they're called "Gas Gaints" a fragment of a meter that has landed on earth Comet

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Asteroid, other more distant objects such as Comets, or Kuiper Belts objects would tend to be more icy than rocks There are dried up riverbeds on Mars

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the natural satellite, or moon of Pluto the corona is much hotter than the layer of the sun that are closer to the sun interior Oort cloud Meteors

what observations indicates that conditions on Mars may have been suitable for life in the past? What part of a Comet points most directly away from the Sun? What particle below has no charge, hardly interacts with matter and is generated in the suns core? What piece of evidence suggests that martian moons did not form with Mars but formed elsewhere and were later captured? What property of Mars is responsible for producing the great heights of its volcanoes?

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the core of the sun considered to extend from the center to about 0.2 solar radii Jupiter is perpentually covered with clouds composed of ammomia crystals and possibly ammonium hydrosulfide

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one of the reasons volcanoes of such magnitude were able to form on Mars is because the hot volcanic regions in the mantle Titan

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which moon has the most substantial atmosphere?

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Which particle below has no charge, hardly interacts with matter and is generated in the Sun's core? Which planet in the solar system has a ring system Why do some outer planets have a bluish tint? Why do sunspots appear dark in pictures of the sun? Why does the Sun emit neutrinos? Why is Mars red? Why would it be foolish to send astronauts to land on Jupiter?

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Saturn has long been known for its rings system but more recently rings have been discovered around Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune their atmosphere contain methane which absorbs red light in regular photographs, sunspots appear dark because the temp. of surrounding areas is so high that by comparison sunspots are cool in reality they are still immensely hot Neutrions are a product of fusion in the sun's core the planet is covered in rust Iron oxide to be exact is a simply a dust that covers the entire surface in varying depths the atmosphere consists of liquid hydrogen with constant hurricane speed winds

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