Which moon of Uranus has the strangest terrain? What is a possible explanation for its jumbled appearance?

What will be an ideal response?


Miranda has a strange appearance, with layer, differentiated blocks turned edge on all over its surface in jumbled, haphazard fashion. Perhaps it was broken up by a huge collision with a Kuiper Belt body after it had formed into a sphere, and some of the pieces did not escape, but fell back together in this odd puzzle.

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If a certain sample of an ideal gas has a temperature of 109°C and exerts a pressure of 1.2 x 104 Pa on the walls of its container,

how many gas molecules are present in each cubic centimeter of volume? The ideal gas constant is 8.314 J/mol • K and Avogadro's number is 6.022 × 1023 molecules/mol.

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Astronomers detect _______________ of ionized gas moving perpendicular to the plane of many accretion disks

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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If someone tells you they have a sample of niobium-90, can you tell how many neutrons are in the nucleus?

a. Yes, there are 41 neutrons. b. Yes, there are 90 neutrons. c. Yes, there are 49 neutrons. d. No, more information must be given. e. No, there is no such thing as "niobium.".

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How many constellations encompass the complete celestial sphere?

a. 88 b. 360 c. 180 d. 100

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