The Solar System

ANSWERS TO EVEN-NUMBERED PROBLEMS | (^633) Chapter 1: 2. 3475 km; 4. 1.1 × 10^8 km; 6. about 1.2 seconds; 8. 75,000 years; 10. a ...

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INDEX 635 Boldface page numbers indicate defi nitions of key terms. A Absolute zero, 127 Absorption lines, 130, 132 Absorption s ...

636 INDEX Biological evolution, 586 Cambrian explosion of, 589–590, 591 carbon-chain molecules and, 586–587 cell division and, 5 ...

INDEX 637 Coronagraph, 143, 146 , 147 Coronal holes, 160, 163 Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), 161, 163 Cosmic microwave backgroun ...

638 INDEX Einstein, Albert (Continued) space-time curvature confi rmation and, 93–94 special relativity and, 90–92 Ejecta, 444, ...

INDEX 639 Halley, Comet, 565, 566, 567, 572 Harmonice Mundi (Kepler), 64 The Harmony of the World (Kepler), 64 Haumea, 547 Heat, ...

640 INDEX Jumbled terrain, 453 Juno, 559 Jupiter asteroids regarding, 562, 563 atmosphere of, 495, 498, 500–501 belt-zone circul ...

INDEX 641 Meteors, 404 –405 composition of, 552–556 misconception about, 558 orbits of, 556–558 origin of, 558–559 radiant and, ...

642 INDEX Mutual gravitation, 81–82 mv.See Apparent visual magnitude Mysterium Cosmographicum (Kepler), 64 N Nadir, 17 Nanometer ...

INDEX 643 saros cycle and, 44–45, 46 space view regarding, 44 Thales of Miletus, 45–46 Prediction, 89 Pressure (P) waves, 429 Pr ...

644 INDEX Satellites coorbital, 520–521 Galilean, 504 geosynchronous, 82, 84 Hinode/IRAS, 118 INTEGRAL, 119 irregular/regular, 4 ...

INDEX 645 Sun age of, 407 angular diameter and, 39 annual motion of, 20–21 atmosphere, 143–148 chromosphere, 41, 42, 145–146, 14 ...

646 INDEX Tidally coupled, 443 , 456–457 Tides, 87–88 Time. See also Space-time football fi eld analogy of, 7 geologic, 589–592 ...

CHAPTER 10 | THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM 1 Imagine the history of the universe as a time line down the middle of a football field. T ...

2 PART 2 | THE STARS Over billions of years, generation after generation of stars have lived and died, cooking the hydrogen and ...

106 104 102 1 10 –2 10 –4 –5 0 5 10 L/L M v Temperature (K) 30,00030,000 20,00020,000 10,00010,000 (^500050003000300020002000) O ...

Venus Earth Sun 1 AU Mercury Earth Sun Enlarged to showrelative size Mercury is a bit over a third thediameter of Earth, has no ...