Interplanetary medium/Quiz

Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 snapped this new image of Vesta on May 14 and 16, 2007. Credit: NASA; ESA; L. McFadden and J.Y. Li (University of Maryland, College Park); M. Mutchler and Z. Levay (Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore); P. Thomas (Cornell University); J. Parker and E.F. Young (Southwest Research Institute); and C.T. Russell and B. Schmidt (University of California, Los Angeles).

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1 Which of the following are cosmogonical phenomenon associated with the Sun, or solar system?

	watery abyss
	aphrodite
	Hermeneutes
	cold dark matter
	Heracles
	unseen mass
	Silver age

2 Complete the text:

Match up the item letter with each of the possibilities below:

Balloons - A

Sounding rockets - B

Aircraft assisted launches - C

Orbital rocketry - D

Shuttle payload - E

Heliocentric rocketry - F

Exploratory rocketry - G

Lunar rover - H

Ranger 5

microcalorimeter arrays .

MeV Auroral X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy .

Lunokhod 2 .

ALEXIS .

Ulysses .

Broad Band X-Ray Telescope .

Solar Heliospheric Observatory .

3 The relative abundances of solar cosmic rays reflect those of the solar

4 Complete the text:

Match up the type of Sun system astrogony with each of the possibilities below:

Babylonian epic story of creation - A

a primordial or first Greek god - B

the primeval chaos - C

creation of heaven and earth - D

Greek god personifying the sky - E

Cronus (Saturn) castrating his father - F

separation of the waters by a firmament .

Chaos magno .

Uranus .

watery abyss .

Ouranos

Enuma Elish .

5 True or False, The visible path of a meteoroid that has entered the Earth's atmosphere is called a meteorite.

	TRUE
	FALSE

6 Which phenomena are associated with the heliosphere?

	a region of space where the interstellar medium is blown away by the solar wind
	a bubble in space
	virtually all the material emanates from the Sun itself
	Voyager 2
	Voyager 1
	the termination shock

7 Yes or No, According to Hesiod's Theogony, Uranus was conceived by Gaia alone, but other sources cite Aether as his father.

	TRUE
	FALSE

8 A natural rocky source of chemicals from the sky to the ground may originate from what astronomical source?

	Jupiter
	the solar wind
	the diffuse X-ray background
	Mount Redoubt in Alaska
	the asteroid belt
	the International Space Station

9 That part of outer space between planets and their star(s) is called the?

10 Which of the following phenomena are associated with Venus?

	separate stars, Phosphorus, the morning star, and Hesperus, the evening star
	locally available carving tools
	the ionosphere was observed to become elongated downstream, rather like a long-tailed comet, during a rare period of very low density solar outflow
	Lucifer, literally "Light-Bringer", and Vesper
	currently dormant volcanoes only on the Sun-facing side
	a breathable atmosphere

11 True or False, Chemical ions above the Earth's atmosphere, moving at very high speeds constitute the interplanetary medium.

	TRUE
	FALSE

12 Chemistry phenomena associated with astronomy are

	at least three-quarters of the human genome
	molecules
	atmospheres
	pressure
	ions
	plastic

13 With respect to the zodiacal light which group of middle-easterners worshipped it?

14 Which of the following refer to an aspect of current cosmogonic models?

	fragmentation of asteroids
	accretion
	Mars
	Jupiter
	transformation by accretion
	kilometer-size objects
	hyperbolic comets
	asteroid belt
	bodies comparable in size to the Earth

15 Complete the text:

The majority of known asteroids orbit the Sun between the orbits of and .

16 One of the substances discovered in the tail by spectroscopic analysis was the toxic gas

17 True or False, Pluto is in the Kuiper belt.

	TRUE
	FALSE

18 Which of the following is characteristic of the scattered disc

	a distant region of the solar system
	the dwarf planet Eris
	orbital eccentricites ranging up to 0.8
	inclinations as high as 50°
	perihelia greater than 30 AU
	Dysnomia

19 True or False, A new cosmogony predicts that all particles in one stream have the same mineral composition.

	TRUE
	FALSE

20 A cloud at nearly a quarter of the distance to Proxima Centauri is called the

21 The point where the interstellar medium and solar wind pressures balance is called the

22 Which of the following are associated with electromagnetics?

	angular momentum transfer
	solar wind
	protons
	electrons
	the baryon neutrino
	charge neutralization

23 True or False, Fluxes of ions should be measurable from a detector in a 100 km lunar orbit.

	TRUE
	FALSE

24 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

formation of luminous quasars .

stars with an initial mass less than the solar mass .

rotating liquid drops .

primordial is less than 26 per cent .

a solar mixture of elements dominated by hydrogen and helium gas .

around 13 Jupiter masses .

smaller rocky objects .

25 The process of bombardment-induced surface alteration or damage is called.

26 True or False, The primeval chaos consisted of a plasma abyss.

	TRUE
	FALSE

27 On 19 May 1910, the Earth actually passed through the tail of what comet.

28 Random fluctuations in the intensity of radio waves of celestial origin, on a timescale of a few seconds is referred to as interplanetary?

29 True or False, An oxygen isotope discrepancy was noted forty years ago in a stony meteorite that exploded over Pueblito de Allende, Mexico.

	TRUE
	FALSE

Hypotheses

Main resource: Hypotheses

1. This research learning resource could be re-titled to Astronomy/Mediums/Interplanetaries

See also

• Astronomy/Quiz
• Green astronomy/Quiz
• Planetary science/Quiz
• Radiation astrochemistry/Quiz
• Radiation astrogeography/Quiz
• Radiation astrohistory/Quiz
• Radiation astronomy/Quiz
• Theoretical radiation astronomy/Quiz

External links

• International Astronomical Union
• NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database - NED
• NASA's National Space Science Data Center
• The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
• SDSS Quick Look tool: SkyServer
• SIMBAD Astronomical Database
• SIMBAD Web interface, Harvard alternate
• Spacecraft Query at NASA.
• Universal coordinate converter

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