EPSC 180 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Iron Meteorite, Milky Way, Lunar Phase
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At the centre of the milky way galaxy, there is a supermassive black hole having a mass more than 3 million suns: ocean basin rocks have a higher density than most continental rocks. Basaltic (the other is granite forms continents and felsic blow out of volcanos: a solar eclipse occurs when the moods shadow is cast upon the earth. Moon, then, at the time of the eclipse? (solar eclipse between us and the sun) The moon must be at new moon phase: ceres is the largest of the asteroids with a diameter of 1000 km. In the main asteroid belt between mars and jupiter: the chixclub impact event has probably become the most famous of all the asteroid collisions with earth. An asteroid about 10km in diameter impacted the earth on the northern edge of what we know as the yacatan pennisula of mexico about 65 million years ago.