Terrestrial
Jovian
Other objects
pluto
Solar system
formation
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All terrestrials are denser than jovians
Compare Terrestrials
densities to Jovian
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Slowed down about
.0015sec/century
Is the Earth’s rotation slowing
down or speeding up
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Weak
Awhat kind of magnetic fields
do terrrestrial planets have
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Heaavier elements compared to Jovian such
as carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and water
vapor
What are the atmospheres of the
terrestrials planets like
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Heavier elements, slow rotations, few
moons, smaller
Describe the terrestrial planets as a
group
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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
What are the Jovian Planets
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Jovian
Which have rings around
them, Jovian or Terrestrial?
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Made of lighter elements (hydrogen and
helium), less dense, rings, lots of moons,
larger orbits, faster rotations and bigger.
How are Jovians different
from terrestrial?
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Near circular orbits, close to the same plane, revolve
counter clockwise around the sun and moons
revolve counter clockwise.
How are Jovians similar terrestrial
planets?
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A MOON
To determine the mass of a planet using
Newton’s laws of gravity, the planet must
have
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sun
Which body has the greatest
gravitational pull on the
Earth?
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Beyond Neptune
Where in the solar system
does the Kuiper belt lie?
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In the Asteroid belt between
Jupiter and Mars
Most asteroid are found
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SIZE
The difference between a
meteoroid and an asteroid is
the object’s
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CERES
The largest asteroid and and
probably the only one to be a
spherical “world” is
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Plutoids ,icy comet-like bodies
The kuiper belt is an outer asteroid belt
consisting of what types o solar stem
objects?
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In the Kuiper belt
Where does Pluto live?
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Irregular
Which object made scientists
rethink Pluto as a planet?
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Dr. Brown or Neil De grasse Tyson
Name one scientist who was
to blame for the demotion of
Pluto
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It has not cleared it’s path
What was the reason for
Pluto being “Plutoed”
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Nebular
What is the theory that is
currently used to describe the
formation of the Solar
system?
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Accretion
What is the term used when
dust and particles accumulate
to grow into an object?
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The early solar nebula flattened into a disk
Why do the orbits all lie in
the same plane?
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Shock wave
What might have made the original solar
nebula contract?
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Dust provides the condensation nuclei
around which accretion occurs.
What is the role of dust in the
condensation theory?