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Are planets formed from the same clouds of gas and dust as stars?
Yes. As a new star is forming it is surrounded by a disk of gas and dust called a protoplanetary disk. Planets, asteroids, and comets all form from this disk.
What is located beyond Neptune's orbit?
There are two regions in the solar system past Neptune, both of which contain icy planetoids. The inner area is called the "Kuiper Belt", and includes objects which are in relatively stable orbits around the Sun. Farther out, the "scattered disc" region is thought to be the origin of periodic comets, bodies which have been disturbed by Neptune's gravity and enter the inner solar system.
A rocky body orbiting the Sun but too small to be called a planet is called a?
To some extent it depends on where it is.If it's inside the orbit of Neptune, it's probably an asteroid (though it could be a centaur or a trojan if it's in certain very specific places).If it's outside the orbit of Neptune, the generic term is trans-Neptunian object or TNO. There are certain specific types of TNOs: plutinos, twotinos, cubewanos, Kuiper belt objects, and scattered disk objects, all depending on what kind of orbit they're in.
When Venus passes between the Earth and the sun it is visible as a tiny black dot on the sun's bright disk. Why is Mars never visible in this same way?
The orbit of mars is outside that of the earths orbit
The smallest addressable unit of storage on a disk is called a?
The smallest addressable unit of storage on a disk is called a sector.
Are planets formed from the same clouds of gas and dust as stars?
Yes. As a new star is forming it is surrounded by a disk of gas and dust called a protoplanetary disk. Planets, asteroids, and comets all form from this disk.
Spherical region of comets surronding the solar system-what is it called?
The outer Oort cloud. (The inner Oort cloud is believed to be disk-shaped.)
What is located beyond Neptune's orbit?
There are two regions in the solar system past Neptune, both of which contain icy planetoids. The inner area is called the "Kuiper Belt", and includes objects which are in relatively stable orbits around the Sun. Farther out, the "scattered disc" region is thought to be the origin of periodic comets, bodies which have been disturbed by Neptune's gravity and enter the inner solar system.
Where can you get the Dark Orbit Extended Disk?
Germany or the UK
A rocky body orbiting the Sun but too small to be called a planet is called a?
To some extent it depends on where it is.If it's inside the orbit of Neptune, it's probably an asteroid (though it could be a centaur or a trojan if it's in certain very specific places).If it's outside the orbit of Neptune, the generic term is trans-Neptunian object or TNO. There are certain specific types of TNOs: plutinos, twotinos, cubewanos, Kuiper belt objects, and scattered disk objects, all depending on what kind of orbit they're in.
Do comets come from the asteroid belt?
Comets are believed to have two sources. Long-period comets (those which take more than 200 years to complete an orbit around the Sun) originate from the Oort Cloud. Short-period comets (those which take less than 200 years to complete an orbit around the Sun) originate from the Kuiper Belt. Danish astronomer Jan Oort proposed that comets reside in a huge cloud at the outer reaches of the solar system, far beyond the orbit of Pluto. This has come to be known as the Oort Cloud. Statistics imply that it may contain as many as a trillion comets and may account for a significant fraction of the mass of the solar system. However, since the individual comets are so small and so far away, we have no direct evidence about the actual existence of the Oort Cloud. The Kuiper Belt is a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune roughly 30 to 100 AU from the Sun. The Belt contains many icy bodies which can become comets. Occasionally the orbit of a Kuiper Belt object will be disturbed by gravitational interactions with the giant planets in such a way as to cause the object to take up an orbit that crosses into the inner solar system. Although the Oort Cloud is much farther away from the Sun than the Kuiper Belt, it appears that the Oort Cloud objects were formed closer to the Sun than the Kuiper Belt objects. Small objects formed near the giant planets would have been ejected from the solar system by gravitational encounters. Those that didn't escape entirely formed the distant Oort Cloud. Small objects that formed farther out had no such interactions, and remained as the Kuiper Belt objects.
What is reorganizing a disk called?
reorganizing the disk Defragmentation actually reorganizes the disk.
When a star is forming why doesn't all the material in the disk fall into the center?
The material in the disk has too much angular momentum to fall into the center and instead remains in orbit.
Computer device that holds a disk is called a?
disk driver
What is it called when you check your disk regularly for viruses?
Disk Checking.
What are the features of disk wizard from seagate?
yes its called Disk Wizard.
When Venus passes between the Earth and the sun it is visible as a tiny black dot on the sun's bright disk. Why is Mars never visible in this same way?
The orbit of mars is outside that of the earths orbit
