ASTR 1010 Fall 2019: Study Guide for Quiz #6

READING: Chapters 8 - 13; Section 14.3.

Topics you should know and understand for Quiz #6 (not necessarily a complete list)

1) DEFINITIONS: Aphrodite Terra; Ishtar Terra; Pancake domes; Corona; Scarp; Valles Marineris; Olympus Mons; Belts; Zones; Great Red Spot; Great Dark Spot; Liquid Metallic Hydrogen; Loki; Valhalla; Triple point; `Cantaloupe Terrain'; Shepherd Moons; Kuiper Belt Object (Trans-neptunian Object); Dwarf Planet; Cassini Division; Oort Cloud; Trojan asteroids; Lagrangian points; Apollo asteroids (Earth-Crossing Asteroids); Kirkwood Gaps.

2) OTHER THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW: The types of surface features found on the surfaces of the Moon, Mars, Venus, and Mercury, and how they were formed; the evidence that there was liquid water on Mars in the past; the relative ages of the surfaces of the terrestrial planets; the compositions of the atmospheres of the terrestrial planets; the names of the spacecraft that visited the different planets; what causes the belts and zones on the Jovian Planets; why Neptune and Uranus are blue; the interior structure of the Jovian Planets; the surface features on the Galilean Moons, their relative amount of geological activity, their relative surface density of craters, and their relative densities, and why these are correlated with their distances from Jupiter; The names and surface features of the nine largest moons of Saturn; which moons are most likely to have water under their surface; why Hyperion is not tidally-locked to Saturn; the likely explanation why Phoebe and Triton orbit around their planets in a direction opposite to that of the other moons in the solar system; The properties of Uranus' intermediate and moderate-sized moons; The state of our knowledge about Triton; Which spacecraft visited Uranus and Neptune; The state of our knowledge about Pluto and Charon, including their surface features; The nature of planetary rings; Why some planetary rings are very narrow; what the formal definition of a dwarf planet is, as opposed to a planet; The differences between asteroids and comets; The difference between the dust tails and ion tails of comets; Surface features on asteroids and comets.