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Planet Preference Survey
Group Name: _____________________________
Crew members:
Technician: ________________________________
Mission Recorder: ________________________________
Group Commander: ________________________________
Engineer: ________________________________
Communications Officer: ________________________________
Please mark your choice for each question with an “X”
1) What type of star will your planet orbit? This is the nearest star to your planet.
____ Low mass (does not give off much light or heat, but lasts a long time.)
____Solar type (like our Sun—an average, medium mass star)
____ High mass (gives off a lot of light and heat, but does not last as long)
2) What is the age of the star you are orbiting, in billions of years? Your planet
will be about as old as your nearest star. (Our Sun is around 4.6 billion years old.)
If you chose a low mass or solar type star the age must be less than 13.6
billion years.
If you chose a high mass star the age must be less than 3.5 billion years.
__________ billion years old
3) How far from your star is your planet? Please give your answer in
Astronomical Units (AU). (Earth is 1 AU from the Sun. 1 AU equals about
93,000,000. Pluto is around 40 AU from the Sun.)
__________ AU
4) What type of object do you want to explore?
____Small rocky planet (like Mars, Pluto, Mercury)
____Large rocky planet (like Earth, Venus, or larger)
____Moon of a rocky planet (example: our moon)
____Moon of a gas giant (example: Europa, Titan)
____Moon of a brown dwarf (example: ?)
5) What type of surface do you want on your planet?
____Solid, rocky
____Solid, ice covered
____Liquid (example: water, ammonia)
____Mixture, mostly rock
____Mixture, mostly ice
____Mixture, mostly liquid
6) What type of atmosphere do you want?
____Trace—almost none (like Mercury or Mars)
____Thin (like Earth)
____ Thick (like Venus)