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| consists of 8 planets, and the sun |
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| average distance of earth from the sun |
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| all planets orbit around the sun, XO-3b orbits tilted |
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| mercury, venus, mars, earth |
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| saturn, neptune, jupiter, uranus |
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| rocky, like terrestrial planets |
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| icy, like moons of outer planets |
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_________-crust
_________-mantle
_________-outer core
_________-inner core |
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| nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide. layer of gas confined to a planets surface by force of gravity |
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inosphere
menosphere
stratosphere
troposphere |
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| field which accompanies any changing electric firld, and governs the influence of magnetized objects on one another |
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| atmosphere molecules excited upon collision with the charged particles fall back to their groundstates and emit light, increase: van allenbelts being distorted |
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| mercury and moon atmosphere |
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| mercury and moons surface |
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moon- giant craters and bare
mercury- firy and hot |
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| they have a synchronous orbit, meaning they always have the same side facing earth |
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| mercury and moon geological activity |
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| cliff on a surface that does not appear to be result of volcanic or other familiar geological activity |
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| mercury and moon magnetic field |
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moon- shows a rapidly rotating liquid core is needed
mercury- field is strong enough to deflect a solar wind |
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| many theorys, coformation theory |
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