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hey ummm can anyone tell me a good way to study i was put on the event for state and i have hardly any knowledge of the solar system

well, know the characteristics of the planets...this is a study event, so you need to know as much about the planets as possible

jaydinwars wrote:hey ummm can anyone tell me a good way to study i was put on the event for state and i have hardly any knowledge of the solar system

Can you be a little more specific? There's no one way to just "study". There's the planets (atmosphere, location, unique characteristics, moons if any, etc.), Keepler's laws (wording AND meaning), moons (host planet, speed of rotation and orbit), other features of the Solar System (Oort cloud, Kuiper belt, etc.), and formation theories of the solar sytem. You do not need to know any formation theories of the universe.

You should know all of that, and more. Almost all of it can be found in the Solar System Wiki.

What is the most amount of moons anyone has seen on a test? I was thinking that people should know at least the ones that are at least 50 km in radius and then some extras, but some of them seem like they could be long shots to appear somewhere. Then again, someone could come up with a long matching section on just moons or something.

Probably just all the major ones at the most (i.e. the ones that aren't just pieces of rock floating in space that we know nothing about). You should definitely know:

Jupiter- Io, Callisto, Ganymede, Europa
Saturn- Janus, Epimetheus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus
Uranus- Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon
Neptune- Triton

I'm thinking that there might be a tiebreaker on naming as many moons of, say, Saturn as you can.

AlphaTauri wrote:Probably just all the major ones at the most (i.e. the ones that aren't just pieces of rock floating in space that we know nothing about). You should definitely know:

Jupiter- Io, Callisto, Ganymede, Europa
Saturn- Janus, Epimetheus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus
Uranus- Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon
Neptune- Triton

I'm thinking that there might be a tiebreaker on naming as many moons of, say, Saturn as you can.

ok, thanks, and I already know the moons of the inner planets

on your cheat sheet, put all the moons that you can find, incase you have to ID them.
know the main satellites of each planet in depth, the important/unique ones.

I found a few tricks to help you memorize the moons.
Mercury, Venus- none
Earth - "The Moon" (if you don't get this one, you epic fail and shouldn't be in Science Olympaid)
Mars - Phobos, Demos (Mars is the Greek god of war, and Phobos sounds kinda sounds like "fear" and Demos kinda sounds like "demon"... idk, to me it dose)
Jupiter - Sorry, no tricks
Saturn- Miamas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapeatus, Phoebe (MET DR. THIP)
Uranus - Oberon, Puck, Titania, Juliet (almost all of the moons are characters from Shakespearian plays)
Neptune- Triton (Neptune is the Roman good of the sea, and triton... the sea... yeah.)
Pluto - Charon, no tricks.

These tricks can really help if you can find them.

robodude wrote:

jaydinwars wrote:hey ummm can anyone tell me a good way to study i was put on the event for state and i have hardly any knowledge of the solar system

Can you be a little more specific? There's no one way to just "study". There's the planets (atmosphere, location, unique characteristics, moons if any, etc.), Keepler's laws (wording AND meaning), moons (host planet, speed of rotation and orbit), other features of the Solar System (Oort cloud, Kuiper belt, etc.), and formation theories of the solar sytem. You do not need to know any formation theories of the universe.

You should know all of that, and more. Almost all of it can be found in the Solar System Wiki.

well im assigned by my partner to study the 4 planets closest to the sun and metorites and asteroids so what im askin if there is a good productive way to study

Once again, everyone has thier own way of studying. I read books and do things like make games to help me digest the info, some people make flash cards, some quiz each other. I don't know too much about you, so you just need to find your own methood of studying that suites you best.