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59 Cards in this Set
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another name for outer planets
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Jovians
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JOvian planets consist mostly of what gases
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mostly helium and hydrogen
traces of others |
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do Jovian planets have rings
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yes
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do inner planets have rings
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no
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name the Jovian planets:
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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
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how are the Jovian planets diff than earth
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earth rock crust with liguid core;
jovian has outer gas with rock core |
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largest planet
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jupiter
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what causes Jupiters magnetic field
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compressed hydrogen acts like a metal
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central core of jupiter is what size
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size of earth
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huge storm many times the size of earth which has been going on as long as we have been looking at the planet
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great red spot
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warm dark-colored clouds on Jupiter
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belts on Jupiter
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light colored clouds on Jupiter
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zones
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Does Jupiter gets most of heat from sun
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Jupiter gets heat from central core..puts off more than receives from sun
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how many satellites does JUpiter have
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over 20 moons ...4 major ones
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name 4 big moons of Jupiter:
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Europa, Io, Ganymede, and Callisto
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largest of Jupiter’s Moons
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Ganymede
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does ganymede have water
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frozen..ice
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One of the most cratered objects in the solar system, it is a rocky, fairly uninteresting moon, much like our own. It has huge craters and is believed to have a liquid, probably water center
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callisto
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2nd closest moon to JUpiter
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europa
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is europa a block of ice
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no ...there is a sloshy warm ocean with ice floating
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because of the water on europa, what is thought to be there
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life
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most volcanic body in the solar system
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IO
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why is IO slowly breaking up
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tidal waves and Jupiters magnetic field
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how are rings thought to be made
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volcanic material reaches escape velocity and ends up streaming behind the moon, creating a new ring
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2nd largest PLANET
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saturn
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why could saturn float on water
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least dense....less mass
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has the most moons and most rings
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saturn
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Strong jet streams, strongest winds and storms-electromagnetic field
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saturn
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reflecting power of a surface
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albedo
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rings are made of
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Rock and a lot of ice
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why do rocks and ice stay in shape of rings
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shepherd moons
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rings are further divided into large areas by debris free areas
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Cassini and the Encke Division
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saturn has how many moons
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many...two famous ones
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why doesnt sauturns moon titan have life
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too cold
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simplest of organic compounds
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Methane and ethane
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precursor of proteins
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cyanide
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gases on titan
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mostly NITROGEN but methan, ethane, cyanide
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why could titan have life
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presence of cyanide.. a protein
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wht was Mimas almost destroyed
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hit by something..any larger would have broken into pieces
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two major moons of saturn
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Titan and Mimas
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planet whose orbit orbit REALLY out of whack, not only does it go backward like Venus, but the planet rotates on its side, or rolls along
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uranus
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why is uranus magnetic field not strong
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odd rolling rotation of planet
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looks like a odd mis-matched jigsaw puzzle with a piece missing
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miranda---uranus main moon
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why does Miranda look like a puzzle
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hit by someting, broke apart, formed back together without melting and bonding
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long term storm on neptune
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Blue spot
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Neptune is known as whose twin
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Uranus
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why was neptune discovered
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something had to be in its place according to the laws of Planetary Motion
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is VERY cold but still active tectonically with evidence of natural gas geysers
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Tritan, neptunes moon
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Neptunes moon
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t r i t a n
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jupiters moon
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t i t a n
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why does pluto resemble a comet more than a planet
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collection of ice, frozen gases and some rock like comets
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pluto orbits around what
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charon
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what makes Plutos orbit different
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VERY eccentric rather than being more circular
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A large, disc-shaped area beyond the orbit of Neptune
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KUIPER BELT
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which comets originate inthe kuiper belt
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short term planets
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kuiper belt is believed to be the result of....
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left-over from the original accretion disk
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last reaches of our known Star System, and where our long-term comets are believed to originate
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oort cloud
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if all particles of the oort cloud were molded together, what size would it be
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size of jupiter
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how many comets are i the oort cloud
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over 3 million
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