Otherbodies Flashcards
Surface of io has these
Active volcanoes
Moon that may have life
Triton
Ios heat is due to the gravity of this
Jupiters gravity
How many Galilean moons are there
4 Io Europa Gangymede Castilla
Around which planet do the Galilean moons rotate
Jupiter
Rings are made of
Ice and dust
Tritan and Pluto are probably both members of this area of the solar system
Kuiper belt
Plutos moon is called
Charon
Tristan has had volcanoes on it erupting
Snow
All of the gas giants have rings around them
True
Some of saturns rings are kept in their orbits by the gravity of
Shepard moons
The next satirize that will be ground down into a series of rings will be
Io
The only planet that has an orbit so tilted it moves into and out of the planes of other planets
Pluto
Moons (quiz)
63
50
27
13
Area where comets originate
Oort Cloud
Meteor that strikes earths surface
Meteorite
Meteor found in space
Meteoroid
Where are most asteroids found
Asteroid belt
Tail of a comet points away from sun due to
Solar wind
2 types of meteoroids
Iron and nickel
ELE
Extinction level event
Asteroids were concerned about
Earth crossing
Largest moon in solar system
Gangdemene
Europa probably has life because of
Saline
Moon of Uranus blown apart and put back together
Miranda
Mimas
Saturn
Death Star
Io erupts
Sulfur
Miranda
Uranus
Order of saturns rings from inner to outer
D
C
B
A
Enceladus
Coated with ice
Saturn
Erupts ice
Neptunes moon
Tritan
Roche limit
Limit={2.5}radius
Moon orbits inside of this distance the gravity of the parent planets could tear it apart
Why doesn’t Pluto fit? 3
1: too small
2: orbit doesn’t fit
3: not Jovian or terrestrial
Pluto originated here
Kaiser belt
2 kinds of comet tails
1: dust
2: ion
Most comets originate here
Kuiper belt
As a comet approaches the sun, this develops
Hydrogen envelope
Aerogel is used to study
Comets dust
Largest part of planet
Striae
