Draft:Dione/Quiz

This image of Dione was acquired by the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera. Credit: NASA/JPL.

Dione is a lecture about a spheroidal astronomical object in orbit around Saturn.

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Quiz

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1 Yes or No, Dione orbits Saturn at roughly the same distance as our own moon orbits Earth.

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	No

2 Complete the text:

Match up the blue object with the possibilities below:

Sun - H

Mercury - I

Venus - J

Earth - K

Meteorite on Mars - L

Pallas - M

Comet Holmes - N

Europa - O

Io - P

Saturn - Q

Enceladus - R

Tethys - S

Titan - T

Neptune - U

Abell 370 - V

SN 1987A - W

Crab Nebula - X

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3 Yes or No, The tiny moon Dione is a mere 700 miles wide and appears to be a thick, pockmarked layer of water ice surrounding a smaller rock core.

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4 True or False, As it orbits Saturn every 2.7 days, Dione is bombarded by charged particles (ions) emanating from Saturn’s very strong magnetosphere.

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	FALSE

5 Yes or No, The lighter-colored leading hemisphere of Dione is coated with icy dust from Saturn's E-ring, formed from tiny particles ejected from Enceladus' south pole.

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6 Complete the text:

Match up the letter of the spherical object with each of the possibilities below:

Sun - A

Mercury - B

Venus - C

Earth - D

Moon - E

Mars - F

Ceres - G

Jupiter - H

Callisto - I

Europa - J

Ganymede - K

Io - L

Enceladus - M

Titan - N

Uranus - O

Titania - P

Neptune - Q

Triton - R

Pluto - S

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7 Yes or No, The largest crater on Dione is less than 100 kilometers (62 miles) in diameter and shows a well-developed central peak.

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8 Which of the following are associated with hydrocarbons?

	liquid lakes on Titan
	petroleum deposits on Earth
	methane in the atmosphere of Uranus
	Dione
	atmosphere of Neptune
	an H II region

9 Yes or No, Sinuous valleys probably formed by faults breaking the moon's icy crust.

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	No

10 A sensor aboard the Cassini spacecraft called the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) detected

ions in Dione’s wake during a flyby of the moon in 2010.

Hypotheses

Main resource: Hypotheses

1. Dione has a frozen surface because it traveled with Saturn from its original or earlier position.

See also

• Enceladus quiz
• Saturn/Quiz

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