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| The largest asteroid , and probably the only one to be a spherical world is... |
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| Which planet itself contains majority of mass of all the planets? |
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| Our understanding of the solar system can be best described... |
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| Explosive, our learning more in the past decade than all of history. |
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| The planets orbital period is... |
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| The time it takes to return to the same location in the sky relative to the sun. |
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| The plane in which all planets orbit the sun is called the... |
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| How do densities of Jovian and Terrestrial planets compare? |
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| Terrestrial planets are all more dense than any of the Jovian. |
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| Which of the following are Jovian planets? |
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| Jupiter, saturn, uranus, and neptune. |
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| Most asteroids are found... |
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| Between orbits of mars and jupiter. |
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| The kuiper belt is found where in the solar system? |
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| Beyond the orbit of neptune. |
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| The tail of a comet always points... |
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| Away from the sun and becomes longest and brightest at perihelion. |
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| What is true about solar system densities? |
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| Denser plantes lie closer to the sun. |
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| Masses of planets are easier to determine if... |
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| They have natural sattelites whose motions can be precisely measured. |
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| Average density of each planet is... |
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| The mass divided by its volume. |
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| Which bodies have lowest density? |
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| The rotation periods of Venus, Jumpiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are hard to measure beacause... |
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| Surface features obscurred by atmosphere. |
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| In orer to determine mass of planet by applying newtons lawas of motiona nd gravity, the planet must have... |
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| Mercurys most unusual orbital feature compared to other planets is... |
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| What aspect of planets orbits are nearly the same for all planets? |
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| Shape and tilt from the ecliptic. |
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| Are almost circular with low eccentricities. |
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| In composition and mass and density, Jupiter is most like... |
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| Which characteristics below describes Jovian planets? |
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| Which characteristics describe terrestrial? |
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| Processes weak magnetic fields. |
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