Saturn's Moons
The largest Saturnian satellite
What is Titan?
Uranus must have faced a large impact earlier in the formation of the solar system because...
What is, Uranus is tipped on its side/ its rotational axis is 98 degrees from its vertical axis?
or
What is, Uranus rotates on its axis in retrograde?
Going from the sun outwards, Neptune is the _____ planet in our solar system (a word or a number)
What is the farthest or the 8th?
The requirements to be classified as a trans-neptunian object are...
1. Any minor dwarf planet
2. orbits the sun at a greater average distance than Neptune
(1 and 2: 100 points each)
______ is the name of "the heart" of Pluto
What is Tombaugh Regio?
_____ and _____ (saturn's moons) are bigger than mercury
What is Titan and Ganymede?
This person discovered Uranus with a telescope
Who is William Herschel?
Neptune has a "pancake" appearance because of its...
What is fast rotation speed? (one Neptunian day lasts 16 hours)
These two missions have made it into interstellar space
What are Voyager 1 and Voyager 2?
Montes (tall/steep mountains), on Pluto, are made out of ...
What is water ice?
_____ is known as the walnut moon
What is Iapetus?
This gas obscures possible bands of clouds and absorbs red light- giving Uranus its blue color
What is methane?
_____ is the largest of Neptune's moons
What is Triton?
The Oort cloud contains _____- period comets while the Kuiper belt contains ______- period comets
What are long (Oort cloud) and short (Kuiper belt)?
Pluto's (possibly not permanent) atmosphere is primarily made up of this gas
What is nitrogen?
Saturn has ____ confirmed/named moons and ____ awaiting confirmation
What is 53 and 29 (respectively) ?
____ is the brightest of Uranus' rings
What is the epsilon ring?
Neptune's 14 named moons were probably captured from this region
What is the kuiper belt?
This TNO is known as "the snowman" because of its shape (two lobes attached by a smaller neck)
What is Arrokoth?
______ aka "brass knuckles" is the name of a dark region to the west of Pluto's "heart" with deep canyons running through it
What is Macula?
_____ is a highly reflective area on the leading hemisphere of Titan
What is Xanadu?
Name the 5 major moons of Uranus
What are Miranda, Titania, Oberon, Ariel, and Umbriel?
This material is what starts and sits around Neptune's storm systems
What is lighter methane ice?
These two Kuiper belt objects are similar in size and therefore, rotate around a barycenter together
What are Charon and Pluto?
Name the 5 known moons on Pluto
What are charon, styx, nix, kerberos, and hydra?