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Lecture #10 -Meteorite Impacts Flashcards

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How was the solar system formed?

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Cloud of Gas and dust in space was disturbed by a supernova

4.6 billion years ago

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What is Nebular Hypothesis?

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The explosion made was in space. This caused the formation of a solar nebula ( a flattened cloud of gas and dust)

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What is a super nova?

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Explosion of a star

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How were the planets formed?

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caused from the centre of the solar nebula grew hotter resulting int he formation of the sun
-the edges cooled causing clumps of particles that stick together and form planets

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Whats a galaxy?

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A cluster of billions of stats

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Whats a star?

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A hot glowing ball of gas that generates energy by converting H–>He

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How long does it take to travel from one side to the other of the galaxy?

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~100,000 lightyears

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What is the temp in the middle of the sun?

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15 million Degrees C

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What is the photosphere?

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Outermost part of the sun

-6000 degrees C

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What controls the earths climate system

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energy from the sun

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What is the order of the 8 planets?

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Mercury-Venus-Earth-Mars-Saturn-Jupiter-Uranus-Neptune

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Why is Pluto not a planet?

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Because there are a lot of other bolides that circle the solar system, that are the same size of Pluto and we don’t consider them planets so we took them out

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What happens at the end of a stars lifecycle?

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They grow bigger until they explode and massive amounts of energy is released

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What is a bolide?

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Extraterrestrial bodies that originate in outerspace

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What is an Asteroid

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A rocky metallic material in space 10-100m in diameter originating in the asteroid belt

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What is a Meteoroid?

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Smaller objects in space up to 10m in diameter

17
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What is a Meteor?

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A meteoroid that has entered earths atmosphere

18
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What is a Meteorite?

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A meteor that strikes the earth surface

19
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What is a comet?

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These are distinguishable by a glowing tail of gas and dust

20
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What are comets made from?

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gas and ice and has a rocky core

-they create the light as gases are released

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What is an air burst?

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Bolide that travel at velocities of 12-72km/s. They enter the atmosphere and explode at an altitude between 12-50 km above the surface

22
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The Tunguska Airburst

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Destroyed a lot of forest in 1908
-no crater was found so it was deemed and air burst
-asteroid was probably ~25-50m
0shockwave produced the airburst

23
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The Chelyabinsk Airburst

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Feb 15 2013
Meteor exploded over a city in Russia
1500 people injured due to broken glass

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What is an ejecta blanket?

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Layers of debris consists of rock fragments that were blow out of the crater on impact

25
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Why arent todays craters as deep?

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Because of erosion and weathering over time

26
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Barringer Crater?

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50 000 years old located in Arizona
Hole filled in over time due to wind and erosion
Shockwaves blew out the material

27
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What are simple craters?

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Less than a few km

Doe not have an uplifted centre

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What is a complex crater?

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Rim collapses under extreme faulting
Centre flood that rises following impact
greater than 6km

29
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Chesapeak Crater?

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discovered by surface imaging
Formed 35.5 million years ago
didnt overlain with ocean and sediments

30
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Why are craters more common on the moon?

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  • Most impacts occur in the ocean so no crater is produced
  • most have eroded away
  • smaller bolides burn up in the atmosphere
31
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Shoemaker Level comet

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Entered Jupiters atmosphere in 1994
released massive amounts of energy
-this could happen to us one day too
destroying everything

32
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What is the K-T boundary Mass extinction?

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  • 65 million years ago, an asteroid impacted the earth, ending the dinosaurs
  • Found large amounts of Iridium (uncommon on earth but common in space)
  • Crater discovered in 1991 in yucatan Peninsula Mexico under sediment and ocean
  • asteroid was prob ~10km
33
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Where to asteroids have to stay in order for them not to pose a risk to us?

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Mars and Jupiter Asteroid belts

34
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how do we disturb an asteroids path?

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Blowing it up or hitting it with another asteroid

-nuclear explosions

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