[AST 111] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (35 pages long)
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Tidal heating arises because io"s elliptical orbit causes varying tides. Ios orbit is elliptical because of the orbital resonance lo shares with europe and ganymede. Valhalla impact- fractured the ice and made a shock wave of ice (but no water came out) Enceladus- active geysers and continually recur facing indicate subsurface ocean (makes the e ring) There are individual rings separated by narrow gabs. Instead they hold rings together; one moon inside the distance of the ring, one outside: all other jovian plants have rings, most are small and difficult to observe, the small ones are like shepard moons. Chapter 9: asteroids, comets and dwarf planets 13:20. True leftovers of the building blocks of the solar system. Jupiter"s gravity is what causes the asteroid belt. C- a meteorite ; this fall on the earth the time, but they are commonly falling to the earth (small ones often don"t make it)
