Assignment 8

1. Page 596, Review Question 5

2. Page 567, Review Question 12

3. How can astronomers use asteroid-moon pairs such as Ida and Dactyl (p. 579) to measure asteroid masses?

4. Why are the C-type asteroids dark?

5. Why are Pluto and Charon considered a "double dwarf planet"?

6. Why do comet tails point away from the Sun?