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Solar Ststem Flashcards

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Orion Arm

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The branch of the Milkey Way Galaxy that our solar system is in

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Universe age

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13.7 billion years old

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Edwin Hubble

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Big bang theory

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Big Crunch

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Reverse of big bang

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Sun generation

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Several generations of suns had to live and die for all of the material that makes up earth to exist

Our Sun is gen 3

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Doppler effect

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Waves are pushed together when they travel towards you and stretched apart as they travel away

By measuring the distance of light waves Hubble was able to determine the universe is expanding

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Requirement to be a planet

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Clear orbit
Orbit star
Enough mass to spin itself round

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Moon

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Broke off of earth 4.6 BYO
Gravity, Tides, 24 hr day
Created earths 23.5 degree tilt

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Sun

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Yellow dwarf star

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Fusion

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Hydrogen (element 1) fuses with hydrogen to create helium (element 2)

( once the star runs out of hydrogen it works it’s way through the elements until it hits Iron & Nickel (26) it instantly collapses)

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Photons

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Take 1 million years to travel from the core to the surface

8 minutes to travel from the surface to earth

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Supernovas

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When a star is big enough to explode after hitting 26.

Every element after 27 was created by an exploded star

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Carrington event

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Strongest geometric storm ever recorded in 1859.

Caused global auora

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X class flares

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Most powerful solar flares

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Coronal Mass Ejections

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Gigantic magnetic eruptions of heat plasma bleached into space

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Solar super storm

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Enormous electromagnetic outbursts that sent billions of tons of charged particles hurling towards earth

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Solar storm

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Sun emits strong pulse of energy in all directions

(Developed from sun’s electromagnetic field)

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Sun spots

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Areas where the magnetic field is 2,500x stronger than earths
Magnetic pressure increases + atmospheric pressure decreases
Life cycle (11 years)

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Pluto

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Brown dwarf

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Andromeda

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Closest galaxy to us

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Seasons

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When the earth got its tilt it created the season cycle we know today

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Perihelion

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Closest point to the sun

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Aphelion

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Furthest point from the sun

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Distance/Seasons

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The northern hemisphere is further in the summer and closer in the winter

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Eclipses

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Moon blocks sun’s light over the earth

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Size vs distance (eclipse)

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Moon is exactly 400x smaller than sun and 400x times closer

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Total eclipse

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Entirely blocks light

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Annular eclipses

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Almost blocks all the light, but misses the edges

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Mars

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Moons: Phobos (falling) & Deimos
Largest volcano in universe (Olympus Mons)
Valles Marineris is a canyon the size of USA
Atmosphere: 95.3% carbon dioxide
1/3 the gravity of earth

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Mercury

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Smallest + closet to the sun
Most creators in the universe
Ice in the permanent shadows on surface
THIN ATMOSPHERE

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Venus

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Day (243 days) longer than year (225 days)
Hotter than Mercury (lot of carbon dioxide in atmosphere)
Spins clockwise on axis (only planet that does)
^because planet is upside down

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Earth

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Only planet with tectonic plates and life

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Jupiter

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Biggest plant in the solar system
80 moons + faint ring system
Gas giant
Convective flow produces the belts (stripes) in atmosphere

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Saturn

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62 moons + ring system
2x as far from the sun as Jupiter
Would float in the ocean (light)
Moon Enceladus could have life (ocean under ice)

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Uranus

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Rotates East to west (only backwards planet)
27 moons + ring system

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Neptune

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14 moons + ring system
Most extreme wind + temp in the universe

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Kuiper Belt

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Outside the orbit of Neptune
Contains asteroids and space debris

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Oort Cloud

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Theorized by Jan Oort
Bubble around the universe that’s contains the left overs from the formation

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Astronomical units

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93 million miles
Distance between earth and sun

Diasters 2023 (3 decks)

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