Meteors, Comets, etc.
Popularly known as "dirty snowball"
Comet
Where is the Kuiper belt located?
Beyond Neptune
The dark portion of the shadow cone formed in eclipses is known as...
The umbra
A giant cloud of gas and dust in space where new stars begin to form is known as....
A nebula
Name the closest planet to the sun.
Mercury
The asteroid belt is located between which two planets?
Mars and Jupiter
Long period comets originate from here
The oort cloud.
What eclipse occurs when the Earth moves between the sun and the moon?
Lunar Eclipse
90% of the star's in the solar system are in this phase of their stellar life cycle.
Main Sequence
What is the northern continent of Venus called?
Ishtar Terra.
Describe the difference between Meteoroids, Meteors, and Meteorites.
Meteoroids are traveling through space, Meteors travel through the Earth's atmosphere, and Meteorites are when the rocky body lands on Earth's surface.
What are the 2 regions of the oort cloud?
A SPHERICAL OUTER OORT CLOUD AND A DISC-SHAPED INNER OORT CLOUD, OR HILLS CLOUD.
Why don't we see lunar eclipses often?
Lunar eclipses don’t happen everyday because the Moon’s orbit is tilted. So, during most months, the Moon is above or below the Earth.
In this phase of a star's life cycle, the outer shell of a star expands and it begins fusing helium to carbon in its core.
Red giant phase
This planet takes 17 hours to make 1 rotation.
Uranus
Asteroids become and darker and redder with age because of what?
Space Weathering
What 3 ices is the oort cloud largely composed of?
Water ice, Ammonia ice, and Methane ice.
This eclipse occurs when the moon is farthest from Earth in its orbit.
Annular Solar Eclipse
Describe a Type 1a supernova
Type 1a supernova occur when a white dwarf star has accreted mass from its binary companion and has exceeded the Chandrasekhar Limit (1.4 solar masses). When this happens, the white dwarf explodes into a supernova
Neptune has a cloud of storms called what?
Scooter
Name the three largest asteroids
Ceres, Vesta, and Pallas
The boundary at the outer edge of the solar system is known as...
Heliopause
Why does the moon appear red during a total lunar eclipse?
Because as the sun's light particles travel through the Earth's atmosphere, the particles reflect as red light onto the moon, giving it a red appearance.
What is the range of the TOV limit?
10-12 solar masses
Venus has flat-topped volcanic features called what? What do they resemble?
Farra; they resemble pancakes