Quizzes 8,9 Answers

1. What does the solar system look like?
2. What features of our solar system provide clues to how it formed?
3. What theory best explains the features of our solar system?
4. Where did the solar system come from?
5. What caused the orderly patterns of motion in our solar system?
6. Why are there two major types of planets?
7. Where did asteroids and comets come from?
8. How do we explain the existence of our Moon and other exceptions to the rules?
9. When did our planets form?
10. When was Nicolaus Copernicus born?

1. How do we detect planets around other stars?
2. How do extrasolar planets compare with planets in our solar system?
3. Do we need to modify our theory of solar system formation?
4. What is a Hot Jupiter? 
5. Do extrasolar systems have a frost line?
6. Define the frost line
7. On which side of the frost line is Earth?
8. On which side of the frost line is Jupiter?
9. What is a meteorite?
10. What hit Russia last Friday, February 15, 2013?