21st Century Astronomy
21st Century Astronomy
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ISBN: 9780393428063
Author: Kay
Publisher: NORTON
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The meteorites cannot provide the information about which celestial bodies.

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The short-period comets do NOT have randomly oriented orbits because   a. they are affected by the sun’s gravity.   b. they are affected by the solar wind.   c. they formed in the Kuiper belt, a belt-shaped region in the plane of the solar system.   d. their orbits are altered by the drag of their tails in the solar wind.   e. they all were originally objects ejected from the asteroid belt.
The odd orbits of Nereid and Triton, which are moons of Neptune, indicate that these   a. moons were captured.   b. moons formed simultaneously with the planet from the same piece of the solar nebula.   c. moons broke off from the rapidly rotating planet.   d. moons formed as the result from a giant impact early in the planet’s history.   e. orbits were disturbed long ago in an interaction with some other body.
The rings of Uranus were discovered   a. during an occultation (an eclipse) of a star.   b. during an eclipse of one of the moons by the rings.   c. during an eclipse of Uranus by the rings.   d. as Uranus and the rings passed behind Jupiter.   e. by the Voyager 1 spacecraft.
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