Chapter 13 Uranus and Neptune: The Outer Worlds of the Solar System
William Herschel thought he had found a comet when he spotted the green disk of:
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The only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune was:
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Adams and Leverrier predicted the position of Neptune, based on its perturbations of
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Which three played a role in the finding of Neptune?
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In terms of axial tilt, which of the jovians shows us the largest inclination?
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At which planet can the pole remain in darkness for 42 years, then have 42 years of constant daylight?
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A day at the north pole of Uranus lasts
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The time between equinoxes on Uranus is about
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At the equator during the equinoxes on Uranus a day lasts
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Neptune and Uranus have a bluish tint because:
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The unique feature of Neptune is
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The most abundant component of the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune is
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The magnetic field tilts of which two bodies are the most unusual?
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Unlike the other jovian planets, Uranus
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Which of the Uranian moons displays the widest range of surface terrains, suggesting some catastrophic disruption?
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What is the prediction for the future of Triton?
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What is erupting out of the geysers on Triton?
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The rings of Uranus and Neptune are found:
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Chapter 14 Solar System Debris: Keys to Our Origin
The NASA orbiter that ultimately landed on the surface of the asteroid Eros was
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About what percent of all asteroids are S-type asteroids?
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About what percent of all asteroids are C-type asteroids?
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What is the typical size of most known asteroids?
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What are Dactyl, Gaspra, Mathilde, Eros, and Ida?
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What is the defining property of the Trojan asteroids?
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The type of asteroid that would appear darkest and reflect the least light is type
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The type of asteroid that would be the densest would be type
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The three largest asteroids are
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The Trojan asteroids have orbits that
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The Apollo and Aten asteroids have orbits that
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Which of the following objects never collide with the Earth?
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The Oort Cloud is thought to be
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The nucleus, or main solid body, of a comet has a typical size of
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Long period comets are thought to reside mainly in the
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What part of a comet has only been seen by a space probe?
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Halley's Comet last passed Earth in 1986. It will be due back in
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The largest Kuiper Belt body is
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What is so unusual about Pluto's orbit?
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Pluto is most similar to
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Pluto was discovered in
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Charon's orbit
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The most famous asteroid impact scar on Earth is located in
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Iron meteorites are believed to come from
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Carbonaceous Chondrites are believed to come from
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The body which wiped out the dinosaurs was about
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The Perseid meteor shower gives us about a meteor every minute in mid
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The major impact in the Yucatan wiped out the dinosaurs about:
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The first hint of the role of asteroids in extinction of the dinosaurs came from
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Chapter 15 The Formation of Planetary Systems: The Solar System and Beyond
Why are the jovian planets so large?
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What is a distinguishing characteristic of planetesimals which was critical to planetary formation?
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The concept that Jupiter and the other jovians formed farther out than their present orbits is called
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With rapid collapse from icy planetesimals, what theory would have the jovians growing quickly into giants?
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The Oort Cloud is believed to be
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The most distant objects in our solar system are
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The Kuiper Belt is
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Objects that are in a 3:2 orbital resonance with Neptune are called
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So far, beyond the solar system the extrasolar planets found have been mostly
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The detection of most extra-solar planets is done by
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According to the Solar Nebula theory, planets
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