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Jupiter
Size |
11 earths
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Jupiter
Rotation |
about 10 hours
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Jupiter
Revolution |
12 years
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Jupiter
Mass |
318 earths
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Jupiter
Great Red Spot |
hurricane over 300 years old
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Jupiter
Zones |
whitish bands, warmer
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Jupiter
Belts |
dark bands, cooler
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Jupiter
Ganymede |
largest moon in the solar system
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Jupiter
Callisto |
3rd largest moon in the solar system and most heavily cratered
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Jupiter
Io |
active sulfur volcanoes due to tidal heating
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Jupiter
Europa |
ice covered crack surface
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Saturn
Size |
9 earths
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Saturn
Rotation |
about 10 hours
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Saturn
Revolution |
29.5 years
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Saturn
Mass |
95 earths
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Saturn
Titan |
thick nitrogen atmosphere
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Saturn
Roche Limit |
area around a planet that will break up a moon
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Saturn
Cassini Division |
gap in Saturn's rings due to tides from shepherding moons,
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Saturn
Ringlets |
Saturn's rings are in small ringlets. May be due to shepherding moons.
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Uranus
Size |
4 earths
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Uranus
Rotation |
about 17 hours
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Uranus
Revolution |
84 years
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Uranus
Tilt |
98 degrees on its side
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Neptune
Size |
4 earths
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Neptune
Rotation |
about 16 hours
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Neptune
Revolution |
165 years
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Neptune
Great Dark Spot |
hurricane found by Voyager
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Neptune
Triton |
moon around Neptune with active hydrogen geysers.
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Asteroid
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Mars and Jupiter belt-rocks
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Trojan
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Jupiter's family of asteroids
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Earth Crossers
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Apollo class can hit NEO-near earth objects
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Oort's Cloud
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spherical cloud surrounding solar system, 50000 AU
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Kuiper's Belt
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outside neptune, leftover planetismals
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Meteoroid
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small piece in space
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Meteor
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burning up in our atmosphere
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Meteorite
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rock on the ground
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Photosphere
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part of the sun we see, about 500 miles thick, 5800 K
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Chromosphere
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pink, 10000 miles above photosphere, 15000 K
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Corona and Holes
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outer atmosphere and 1,000,000 K, areas which have no corona are called holes.
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Luminosity
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how much energy sun gives off, we use sun as standard unit of 1 solar lum
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Convection Zone
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area just below surface that energy moves and undulates sun surface
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Radiation Zone
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area around core of sun that moves the energy
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Core
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15,000,000 K, dense and all fusion takes place here
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Helio Seismology
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study of convection undulations below surface
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Granulation
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salt and pepper texture on surface due to convection
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Sunspots
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magnetic storms cooler by 2000 K on suns surface.
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Cycle
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11 years if you look at numbers and 22 years if you look at total polarity switch
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Prominences
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loops of gasses that that connect paired sunspots
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Flares
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hot storms that last 5 to 20 minutes, 5 million degrees, sends out a lot of x-rays and solar radiation.
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Fusion
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combining hydrogen into helium which releases energy only in core
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p-p Reaction
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reaction that takes place in suns core, 4 hydrogen to 1 helium
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E=Mc^2
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E=energy, M=mass, c=speed of light
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Neutrinos
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essentially mass, less particles that are created at suns core and may let us study the core
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