AS101 Lecture Notes - Kuiper Belt, Giant Planet, Oort Cloud
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As 101 assignment #7 answers: correst answers are in bold green (ignore red x s) Rank the following objects or groups of objects in order of their distances from the sun, from closest to farthest. Pluto is classified as: (select all that apply) A jovian planet a dwarf planet part of the kuiper belt. Pluto is the largest object in the kuiper belt. Which of the following would weaken or create problems for the solar nebula hypothesis if it were to be discovered? (check any that apply) Most star systems turn out to have a mixture of different orbital directions, with usually about half of the planets orbiting in one direction and half orbiting the same star in the opposite direction. When planet detection techniques improve, it is found that larger planets usually occur farther away from their stars than small, rocky ones.
