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Astronomy Quiz 7 (“Jupiter”) Study Guide
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For Jupiter to be a star, what would need to be different about it?
What are Trojan Asteroids, and where are they located? (Where are the regular asteroids, for that matter?)
What probes have visited Jupiter and when? Which comet crashed into Jupiter, and when?
How far away from Jupiter are its four main moons? (use Jupiter’s diameter = 1)
What is Jupiter’s mass compared to the Sun’s mass?
Even though it contains asteroids, dwarf planets, Oort Cloud comets, a star, Kuiper Belt objects, “detached objects,” (not
to mention numerous planets being orbited by hundreds of moons) why is it perfectly acceptable to think of the Solar
System as a two-object system?
What is differential rotation? Why does it happen on Jupiter but not on Earth or Mars…or Ganymede or Io for that
matter? Where else in the solar system could differential rotation be observed?
What is a planet’s oblateness ? What usually causes it?
What did the Voyager missions show us about Io? ….about Jupiter? When will the Juno orbiter arrive there?
What is Jupiter’s Great Red Spot? About how big is it?
Which solar system objects have ring systems?
What two elements is Jupiter mostly made of? …and why does it have such a strong magnetic field?
What makes Jupiter and its moons a sort of scaled-down model of the solar system?
Why is Io so volcanically active?
Why do astronomers think Europa has a planet-wide ocean of liquid water?
Water seems to be a prominent feature on which Galilean moons?
Which solar system objects are locked in orbital resonances (not rotational resonances but orbital)
What differentiates Jupiter’s zones from its belts?