Earth Sciences 1022A/B- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 107 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Ice in the polar caps are both frozen water and carbon dioxide (dry ice) Meteorites: greeks and romans called meteorites betyls, moslems pay homage in mecca to sacred black kaaba stone (meteorite, ernst chladni: father of meteoritics (study of meteorites) If asteroid slams into mars or moon with considerable force, chunks of the surface wll fly off into space, sometimes getting trapped in earth"s gravitational field. Please remember it is not called a meteorite until it actually lands on surface. Titius-bode law: take simple mathematical series (0,3,6,12,24), each number is double the last, add 4 to each of the above (4,7,10,16,28, divide each of the above by 10 (. 4,. 7,1,1. 6,2. 8) these are the predicated planet spacing in au. Chapter 12: asteroids: primordial objects left over from formation of solar system, concentration of asteroids between jupiter and mars is known as the. Main asteroid belt: asteroids may collide and glue together at low relative speeds.
