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Planetary geology is a lecture and an article from the school of geology and the department of astronomy of the school of physics and astronomy. It is about the geological effects on planetary-size rocky objects due, or apparently due, to being in orbits around a star or stellar system within about one light year.

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Quiz

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1. Which of the following are major geological effects on planetary-size rocky objects due to being in elliptical orbits around stars or stellar systems?

fault systems due to differential tidal forces
the solar wind
melting and freezing of ices due to closeness or distantness respectively.
volcanoes
increases in asteroid collisions
seasons on objects such as Earth

2. True or False, The gravitational force at the surface of a spheroidal object made of silicates the approximate diameter of the Earth is insufficient to melt any portion from the surface to the center.

TRUE
FALSE

3. With respect to protoplanetary disks what green mineral has been found?


4. 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

5. True or False, Optical reflectance studies of Mercury provide evidence for Mg silicates.

TRUE
FALSE

6. Complete the text:

Match up the type of silicate with the name:
cyclosilicate - A
inosilicate - B
orthosilicate - C
sorosilicate - D
phyllosilicate - E
tectosilicate - F
structurally isolated double tetrahedra .
single chain of tetrahedra .
a continuous framework of tetrahedra .
a ring of linked tetrahedra .
a two-dimensional sheet of tetrahedra
isolated tetrahedra .

7. Radiation phenomena associated with craters include?

catena
secondary craters
checking equations about complex systems
deformed strata
electric arcs
explosions

8. A terrestrial planet is composed primarily of?


9. True or False, The XRS aboard the MESSENGER spacecraft maps mineral composition.

TRUE
FALSE

10. Which geological phenomena are associated with Earth?

lava-spewing volcanoes
sulfur volcanoes
plate tectonics
water oceans
liquid methane oceans
silicate minerals

11. True or False, From the parts of the definition of a planet, the Earth is a planet.

TRUE
FALSE

12. Which geochemical phenomena are associated with Earth?

weathering
lightning
calcium carbonate deposition in the oceans
uranium ions in its oceans
liquid methane oceans
silicate minerals

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Research

Hypothesis:

  1. The effects on planetary rocky objects of having orbits around stars or stellar systems can be muted by rotation.

Control groups

This is an image of a Lewis rat. Credit: Charles River Laboratories.

The findings demonstrate a statistically systematic change from the status quo or the control group.

“In the design of experiments, treatments [or special properties or characteristics] are applied to [or observed in] experimental units in the treatment group(s).[1] In comparative experiments, members of the complementary group, the control group, receive either no treatment or a standard treatment.[2]"[3]

Proof of concept

Def. a “short and/or incomplete realization of a certain method or idea to demonstrate its feasibility"[4] is called a proof of concept.

Def. evidence that demonstrates that a concept is possible is called proof of concept.

The proof-of-concept structure consists of

  1. background,
  2. procedures,
  3. findings, and
  4. interpretation.[5]

See also

  • Ceres/Quiz
  • Earth/Quiz
  • Io/Quiz
  • Jupiter/Quiz
  • Mars/Quiz
  • Mercury/Quiz
  • Neptune/Quiz
  • Pluto/Quiz
  • Saturn/Quiz
  • Titan/Quiz
  • Uranus/Quiz
  • Venus/Quiz

References

  1. Klaus Hinkelmann, Oscar Kempthorne (2008). Design and Analysis of Experiments, Volume I: Introduction to Experimental Design (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-72756-9. http://books.google.com/?id=T3wWj2kVYZgC&printsec=frontcover.
  2. R. A. Bailey (2008). Design of comparative experiments. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-68357-9. http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521683579.
  3. "Treatment and control groups, In: Wikipedia". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. May 18, 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
  4. "proof of concept, In: Wiktionary". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. November 10, 2012. Retrieved 2013-01-13.
  5. Ginger Lehrman and Ian B Hogue, Sarah Palmer, Cheryl Jennings, Celsa A Spina, Ann Wiegand, Alan L Landay, Robert W Coombs, Douglas D Richman, John W Mellors, John M Coffin, Ronald J Bosch, David M Margolis (August 13, 2005). "Depletion of latent HIV-1 infection in vivo: a proof-of-concept study". Lancet 366 (9485): 549-55. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67098-5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1894952/. Retrieved 2012-05-09.

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