Consider the Sun and its largest planet Jupiter. Where on the line joining them is their center mass? Is it within or outside the Sun? (Sun-Jupiter avg distance 778.million km; Solar mass/Jupiter mass = 1.0 × 103; Solar diameter 1.4 million km)
What will be an ideal response?
0.78 million km from the center of the Sun; just outside solar surface
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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The first Apollo missions to the Moon found the maria to be plains of solid lava
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
What are some of the things that make Earth unique in the solar system?
What will be an ideal response?