Exam 6: Small Bodies in the Solar System

A typical ring particle is about the size of a snowball.

Contrast the internal structures of the four Galilean moons. How are their internal differences reflected in the nature of their surfaces and other factors like their mean densities?

As with Saturn's F ring, shepherd moons play a major role in the structure of the thin narrow rings around Uranus.

Pluto is smaller than many moons in the solar system.

Which of the jovian moons is the largest and also the largest moon in the solar system, even bigger than Mercury?

Explain radiation darkening.

Small icy bodies in the solar system which travel about the Sun in highly eccentric orbits and come from all directions are ________.

Pluto is probably one of the largest of the Kuiper Belt bodies beyond Neptune.