ASTR 1010 Fall 2007: Study Guide #7: Additional Material for the Final

Reading: Section 12.5; Sections 13.6 - 13.10; Chapter 14.

Topics you should know and understand for the Final (in addition to the material contained in Study Guides #1 - #6) (not necessarily a complete list)

DEFINITIONS: Triple Point; Oort Cloud; Trojan asteroids; Langrangian points; Apollo asteroids (Earth-Crossing Asteroids); Kuiper Belt Object; Shepherd Moons.

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW: The properties of Titan; The properties of Saturn's and Uranus' intermediate and moderate-sized moons; the state of our knowledge about Triton, Pluto, and Charon; the nature of planetary rings; why some planetary rings are very narrow; the difference between the dust tails and ion tails of comets.