Study Questions Week 1

1) Know all the terms from the handout on celestial coordinates.

2) What are the distinguishing characteristics of the Jovian planets?

3) What are the distinguishing characteristics of the Terrestrial planets?

4) List the components of the solar system.

5) Describe the positions of the planets on a plot of radius vs. density.

6) What are typical densities of rocks? What are typical densities of the terrestrial planets? What are typical densities of the Jovian planets?

7) Be able to recognize a full disk image of each of the planets (except Pluto) and the Moon.

8) Explain the connection between Mercury's orbit and rotation.

9) In what ways in Pluto unusual.

10) What is Bode’s Law? What does it tell you?

11) What does density measure?

12) What is the difference between a solar day and a sidereal day?

13) Explain why we always see the same face of the Moon.

14) Describe and explain retrograde motion.

15) Which are superior planets? Which are inferior planets?

16) Which planet, planets, or moons were visiting by the following spacecraft:

Mariner 10

Magellan

Viking

Voyager 1

Voyager 2

Galileo

Review and Discussion Chapter 1: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Review and Discussion Chapter 6: 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18

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