Jupiter Flashcards
What is differentiation?
Heavy stuff sinking/light stuff rising
why does jupitor have eqwuitorial buldge
liquid gas spinning very fast
What are Jupiter’s main components
Hydrogen and Helium (H & He)
What is Jupiter’s core made of?
Rock and Ice
What is the plasma torus
Ring of charged particles associated with the moon Io (explain more detail**)
How much stronger is jupiter’s magnetosphere *? than the earth’s
20,000x stronger
How much larger would jupiter need ot be a star
80x more mass
Why is jupiter not a star?
too small and too cold.
How many moons does Jupiter have?
67 moons
What are Jupiter’s 4 largest moons?
Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto
What is a “dipsydoodle”
Mark Croft’s phrase to describe the statistical anomaly of the earht’s density as compared to the other planets.
What is the cause of volcanism on Io
Very close to jupiter & tidal forces ***
What is the order of density for jupiter’s moons? (least to most
Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, IO
What is the largest moon in the solar system?
Ganymede cause you’re Ganyneed these nuts in your mouth (larger than mercury)
Regular moons vs irregular moons
Regular
- close to planet
- prograde/righthanded
- small eccentricity (aka circlular orbit)
- regularity in their plane/little to no angles
- FORMED around the planet
Irregular
- distant orbit
- randomly retrograde and prograde
- high eccentricity orbit
- high angles/inclined axis
- CAPTURED by the planet
