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Astro 5 exam 2 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Major accomplishment of Charles Messier? - CORRECT ANSWER - used his telescope to identify 110 visually striking images, most of which cannot be seen with the naked eye. Examples of some of Messier's visually striking images? - CORRECT ANSWER nebulae, galaxies, clusters of stars - What are the families of bodies in our solar system? Their order from the sun? - CORRECT ANSWER - Rocky planets, asteroid belt, giant gas planets, kuiper belt, oort cloud. Order of the planets? - CORRECT ANSWER Saturn, Uranus, Neptune Which planet has: highest surface temperature? largest mass? Misaligned spin axis? spins backwards? largest temperature variations? polar ice caps? - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter

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Astro 5 exam 2 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
Major accomplishment of Charles Messier? - CORRECT ANSWER - used his telescope to
identify 110 visually striking images, most of which cannot be seen with the naked eye.


Examples of some of Messier's visually striking images? - CORRECT ANSWER -
nebulae, galaxies, clusters of stars


What are the families of bodies in our solar system? Their order from the sun? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Rocky planets, asteroid belt, giant gas planets, kuiper belt, oort cloud.



Order of the planets? - CORRECT ANSWER - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune


Which planet has:
highest surface temperature?
largest mass?
Misaligned spin axis?
spins backwards?
largest temperature variations?
polar ice caps?

largest moon relative to the planet? - CORRECT ANSWER - highest surface temp:
Mercury
Largest mass: Jupiter
Misaligned Spin axis: Uranus
Spins backwards: Venus
Largest temp variations: mercury
polar ice caps: Mars

, largest moon relative to planet: Earth


How many moons for:
Mercury?
Venus?

Mars? - CORRECT ANSWER - Mercury: 0
Venus: 0
Mars: 2


Which planets have rings? - CORRECT ANSWER - ALL Jovian (Giant Gas) Planets
HAVE rings! Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune & Uranus.


Which planet has the longest day? - CORRECT ANSWER - Venus


How long does it take to travel from the moon and sun to the Earth? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Earth to sun: 8 light minutes
Earth to moon: 1.28 light seconds


What is 1 AU?
1 light year?

How many AU in a light year? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1 AU- distance from the Earth to
the sun
1 light year- how far light travels in 1 year.
How many AU in a ly? 63,242


How far away is the moon in relation to the diameter of the earth? - CORRECT
ANSWER - 30 x the diameter of the earth
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