Uranus/Quiz

Uranus is a lecture about the study of this astronomical object now revolving with its own system around the Sun.

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Quiz
{Yes or No, Spring has finally come to the northern hemisphere of Uranus. + Yes - No
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{True or False, The aurorae of the planet Uranus are in line with its equatorial rings. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Complete the text: Match up the type of Sun system astrogony with each of the possibilities below: Babylonian epic story of creation - A a primordial or first Greek god - B the primeval chaos - C creation of heaven and earth - D Greek god personifying the sky - E Cronus (Saturn) castrating his father - F separation of the waters by a firmament { D (i) }. Chaos magno { B (i) }. Uranus { F (i) }. watery abyss { C (i) }. Ouranos { E (i) } Enuma Elish { A (i) }.
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{Yes or No, A 1998 false-colour near-infrared image of Uranus show cloud bands, rings, and moons obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) camera. + Yes - No
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{True or False, According to Hesiod's Theogony, Uranus was conceived by Gaia alone, but other sources cite Aether as his father. + TRUE - FALSE
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{There is anecdotal evidence that people had seen the Galilean moons of Jupiter before telescopes were invented. Of similar magnitude, Uranus and { Vesta (i) } had most probably been seen but could not be recognized as wanderers because they appear so faint even at maximum brightness that their motion could not be detected.
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{Yes or No, As a demonstration of ALMA's new short wavelength capabilities, the commissioning team released a new image of planet Uranus as it appears in submillimetre wavelength light. + Yes - No
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{True or False, The discovery of Uranus' non-dipolar, non-axisymmetric magnetic field destroyed the picture-established by Earth, Jupiter and Saturn-that planetary magnetic fields are dominated by axial dipoles. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which phenomena are associated with the dynamo of Uranus? - axisymmetric magnetic field - sulfur volcanoes + non-dipolar - water oceans + bipolar magnetotail + detached bow shock - obtuse rotation
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{Yes or No, In January 1986, the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus at a minimal distance of 107,100 km providing the first close-up images and spectra of its atmosphere. They generally confirmed that the atmosphere was made of mainly hydrogen and helium with around 2% methane. + Yes - No
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Hypotheses

 * 1) Uranus is a remainder of a once large solar system that was intruded upon by the Sun.