Duplicate of Formation of the Solar System

Question 1

What happens to circular motion when mass is moved into the center?

Accepted Answer

Increases

Question 2

Little pieces of liquid or solid combine to form planets in a process called...

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Accretion

Question 3

How do you organize a space party?

Accepted Answer

You plan it

Question 4

What happens when you wish upon a star?

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Your dreams die

Question 5

What is the previous question's concept called?

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Conservation of Angular Momentum

Question 6

Which planet does not rotate the same direction as the other planets?

Accepted Answer

Venus

Question 7

The moon and planets all are in a 'straight line' in the sky. This straight line is called

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The ecliptic

Question 8

Which of the following is not a Jovian planet?

Accepted Answer

Pluto

Question 9

How cool is Neil Tyson Degrasse?

Accepted Answer

Cooler than absolute zero

Question 10

Jovian planets underwent what process after accretion?

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Nebular Capture

Question 11

The 'frost line' is about how far away from the sun?

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3.5 AU

Question 12

Picture 'A' is called what?

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Interstellar Cloud

Question 13

How did the sun form in the middle of the nebula?

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Increased heat and pressure

Question 14

The asteroid belt is between what two planets?

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Mars and Jupiter

Question 15

What is the outermost belt of icy bodies outside of Neptune called?

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Kuiper Belt

Question 16

What may have caused an interstellar gas cloud to collapse?

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Supernova

Question 17

Our solar system is composed mostly of this element:

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Hydrogen

Question 18

This picture helps explain...

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Why the protoplanetary disk is FLAT

Question 19

All planets revolve around the sun...

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On the same plane

Questions 19