Exam 5: The Solar System: Interplanetary Matter and the Birth of the Planets
Exam 1: Charting the Heavens: the Foundations of Astronomy108 Questions
Exam 2: The Copernican Revolution: the Birth of Modern Science68 Questions
Exam 3: Light and Matter: the Inner Workings of the Cosmos112 Questions
Exam 4: Telescopes: the Tools of Astronomy99 Questions
Exam 5: The Solar System: Interplanetary Matter and the Birth of the Planets148 Questions
Exam 6: Earth and Its Moon: Our Cosmic Backyard149 Questions
Exam 7: The Terrestrial Planets: a Study in Contrasts132 Questions
Exam 8: The Jovian Planets: Giants of the Solar System123 Questions
Exam 9: Moons, Rings, and Plutoids: Small Worlds Among Giants161 Questions
Exam 10: The Sun: Our Parent Star124 Questions
Exam 11: Measuring the Stars: Giants, Dwarfs, and the Main Sequence154 Questions
Exam 12: The Interstellar Medium: Star Formation in the Milky Way128 Questions
Exam 13: Stellar Evolution: the Lives and Deaths of Stars167 Questions
Exam 14: Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Strange States of Matter131 Questions
Exam 15: The Milky Way Galaxy: a Spiral in Space166 Questions
Exam 16: Normal and Active Galaxies: Building Blocks of the Universe175 Questions
Exam 17: Hubbles Law and Dark Matter: the Large-Scale Structure of the Cosmos119 Questions
Exam 18: Cosmology: the Big Bang and the Fate of the Universe150 Questions
Exam 19: Life in the Universe: Are We Alone114 Questions
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Due to their great masses, all four jovian worlds are much denser than the Earth.
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In addition to revolving around the Sun counter clockwise, most planets also rotate on their axis counter clockwise.
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Many astronomers now regard Pluto as just one of the largest of the thousands of Kuiper Belt bodies found beyond Neptune.
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In the solar nebular theory, the dusty disk condensing around the Sun's equator became the ecliptic plane in which the planets then formed.
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The extrasolar planets are found mainly by observing the shifts of their stars.
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The Kepler spacecraft has identified more than eight hundred confirmed exoplanets.
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Barringer Crater in Arizona is an example of a meteorite impact.
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Why does the present method of finding extrasolar planets not favor finding solar systems like ours?
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All four jovian planets are thought to have cores larger than Earth.
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Contrast the Oort cloud and the Kuiper belt as possible origins for comets.
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What class of asteroids is a threat to Earth and other terrestrial planets? Why?
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All the planets orbit the Sun in exactly the same plane as the Earth.
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