User:Marshallsumter/Radiation astronomy1/Planets/Quiz

Planetary radiation astronomy is a radiation astronomy lecture observing planets and using planets as radiation for the course on the principles of radiation astronomy.

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Quiz
{Complete the text: Match up the item letter with each of the cosmogonic possibilities below: interior models of the giant planets - A high interest for cosmogony, geophysics and nuclear physics - B hierarchical accumulation - C clouds and globular clusters - D cosmic helium abundance - E deuterium fusion - F a large deficiency of light elements - G after galactic sized systems had collapsed - H the motions of hydrogen { D (i) } formation of luminous quasars { H (i) }. stars with an initial mass less than the solar mass { G (i) }. rotating liquid drops { B|F (i) }. primordial is less than 26 per cent { E (i) }. a solar mixture of elements dominated by hydrogen and helium gas { A (i) }. around 13 Jupiter masses { F (i) }. smaller rocky objects { C (i) }.
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{The charge on a planetary dust particle may change with? { latitude (i) }
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{Which of the following are radiation astronomy phenomena associated with the apparent liquid-object Earth? + rain + snow + hail + neutron emission - polar coronal holes + meteor emission - rotation
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{With respect to protoplanetary disks what green mineral has been found? { olivine (i) }
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{Why is much of the surface of Mars covered with red iron oxide dust when the rocks that compose much of its surface are blue or violet? - Mars has been systematically bombarded with small iron-nickel meteorites or micrometeorites that oxidize in its atmosphere - Mars has been frequently bombarded with hematite containing micrometeorites - asteroid impacts on Mars may have forced iron from near its core into the atmosphere and onto the surface as hematite dust that oxidized - Mars is like Earth in surface hematite composition, but Earth has much more water + precipitation from iron-rich water
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{Which group of astronomers were the first to keep written records of what they learned about the heavens? { Sumerians (i) }
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{Which of the following is not a phenomenon associated with the history of violet astronomy? - photographs of the planet Venus taken in 1927 - two nebulous bright streaks running approximately perpendicular to the terminator on Venus - observations of Venus in 1959 with spectrographs show a wide continuous absorption - the stellar abundance of aluminum - the Galileo spacecraft observed Venus + the helium beta line
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{Who first proposed the hypothesis that the Sun is at rest, while the Earth and the planets rotate about the Sun? { Aristarchus (i) }
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{Observations of comets have benefited greatly from what phenomenon of cyan astronomy? - Cherenkov radiation - the electric blue glow of lightning - gas-expansion velocity decreases with increasing heliocentric distance - methane possesses prominent absorption bands in the visible - adaptive optics + the light of the neutral CN-radical
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{True or False, The astronomer Clyde Tombaugh is the discoverer of Charon. - TRUE + FALSE
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{Which of the following is a phenomenon associated historically with yellow astronomy? - Jupiter + sodium line emission - sunspots on the Sun - an emission with a wavelength of 420 nm - phosphorus - TiO
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{True or False, To ancient astronomers stars remain relatively fixed over the centuries while planets move an appreciable amount during a comparatively short time. + TRUE - FALSE
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{What term was first used with reference to the transfer of momentum from the Sun to the planets in 1942 { magnetohydrodynamics (i) }
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{True or False, The Sun is a classical planet. + TRUE - FALSE
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{From a historical perspective which of the following is not characteristic of the solar corona - the solar corona is electric - it drives away the tails of comets - a net charge on the Sun of approximately -0.3 x 1028 e.s.u. + extrasolar planets - the Reverend Lecturer referring to coronal holes - "the coronoidal discharges in poor vacua obtained by Prof. Pupin about an insulated metal ball are exceedingly like the rays and streamers of the solar corona."
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{True or False, The observations of planetary motion agree with computed orbits to the accuracy of the observations. - TRUE + FALSE
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{Name a classical planet that was not apparently seen in the sky before 5102 b2k { Venus (i) }
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{To the Babylonians, this object represented their god Marduk. { Jupiter (i) }
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{On 19 May 1910, the Earth actually passed through the tail of what comet. { Halley's (i) }
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{Meteorites found on Earth may be from which of the following? - Saturn - Mercury + the Moon + the asteroid belt - Jupiter + Mars + Earth
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{True or False, Mars may have suffered asteroid impacts. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which of the following are radiation astronomy phenomena associated with the gaseous-object Neptune? - Voyager 2 + blue rays + clouds - neutron emission - polar coronal holes + meteor emission - rotation
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{Yes or No, A cometary orbit about the Sun is a radiation astronomy phenomenon. + Yes - No
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{Which of the following is not a radiation phenomenon associated with a planet? - airglow - elongated dust particles - high albedo - olivine - Rayleighs + coronal mass ejection
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{Complete the text: The 0.6 m Tortugas Mountain Observatory is used to monitor the temporal changes in the { Jovian|Jupiter (i) } cloud deck and equatorial activity on { Saturn (i) }.
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{Historically, orange astronomy is not known for which of the following? - Alpha Centauri B - Epsilon Eridani + Saturn - K spectral type stars - the Bayer designation for a star - the Indian city of Pondicherry in December 1689
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{Soon after the invention of radar astronomy, what classical planet was detected { Moon (i) }
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{Various gaps and density minima have been observed in the Saturnian { ring|rings (i) } system.
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{Before the current era and perhaps before 6,000 b2k which classical planet may have been green? { Osiris|Saturn (i) }
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{Complete the text: The moon was formed independently of the earth and later { captured (i) }, presumably by a { three-body| three body (i) } interaction.
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Hypotheses

 * 1) The history of planetary radiation astronomy dates at least to 42,000 b2k.