ASTRO 1102 Midterm: AST 102 Cornell astro102 exam3 formC answerkey
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Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question: this is version c of the exam. 9: kirkwood gaps are observed in the main asteroid belt, including at the position(s) where: Oort cloud: the kuiper belt; short period comets tend to be in the plane of the solar system, just like the. Saturn: methane did not exist in the solar nebula at the radii of jupiter and saturn when the planets formed. Kepler"s third law: known to exist for all of the jovian planets, orbiting in the equatorial plane of their planet, nearer to their planet than any of the planet"s large moons, all of the above. 18: the mass of saturn"s rings is 2x1019 kg. What is the ratio of this mass to that of a 200 km diameter. 21: a comet of mass m impacts the earth (mass m, radius r) at the minimum impact speed.
