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Planetary Characteristics
Orbital Characteristics
History of Discovery/Definition
RANDOM FACTS
Methods of Discovery
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These two methods of detection in combination can be used to determine the mass of the planet.
What is radial-velocity and transit?
100
The angle between the rotation of the star and the planet's plane of orbit
What is spin-orbit angle?
100
The official definition of a planet is made by this organization
What is the International Astronomical Union?
100
1 of the unofficial names given to an exoplanet
What are Osiris, Bellereophon, and Methuselah?
100
The type of method that most planets have been discovered by
What is indirect detection?
200
The habitable zone
What is the zone in which the temperature allows water to exist in liquid form?
200
The reason why many hot Jupiters have retrograde orbits
What is because star itself flipped early in formation due to interactions between star’s magnetic field and planet forming disc.
200
What are alternative definitions of exosolar planets based on?
What is the formation of the planet?
200
The two standards used to name planets
What are the multiple-star- standard and the extrasolar-star-standard?
200
The method which takes place when a planet is crossing a star
What is the transit method?
300
Where are planets usually completely frozen?
Where is the edge of the habitable zone?
300
The number of orbital characteristics that current detection methods can determine
What is four?
300
The first man who suspected the existence of exosolar planets.
Who is Giordano Bruno?
300
The ring system of a recently found planet is this many times larger than the ring system of Saturn.
What is 200?
300
The radial-velocity method utilizes this phenomenon to find planets
What is the Doppler Effect?
400
The number of transiting atmospheres that have been observed
What is 50?
400
The eccentricity of these planets is higher when the planet has a longer orbit
What are giant planets?
400
The number of planets that are catalogued right now.
What is 1885?
400
The percentage of sun-like stars having earth-like planets in the habitable zone
What is 20?
400
The names of 3 methods of detection
What are transit method, radial-velocity detection, gravitational microlensing, transit timing variation, ellipsoidal variations
500
The compound that may be the source of the magnetosphere of super-earths.
What is magnesium oxide.
500
Tidal circularization
What is the reduction of eccentricity due to gravitational interaction between bodies?
500
The class of exosolar planets that orbit close to their stars
What is hot Jupiter?
500
The name of the sloth in the picture in the last slide of my presentation
What is Sid?
500
The method of detection that takes advantage of the fact that planet's perturb the orbits of other planets
What is transit timing variation?