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You are walking on a solid surface. The surface gravity is comfortable, but it is hot, hot, hot Your body is being squeezed in all directions due to the high pressure; it's almost like being deep in the ocean. Your life-support belt is corrod
 
  The Sun, barely visible through the haze, is near your meridian. You hope for nightfall (unaware that it would provide no relief), but you already have been stuck on this planet for nearly 72 hours, and the Sun seems not to have moved through the sky (and, if it moved at all, it moved eastward from the meridian).

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According to our present theory of solar system formation, which of the following lists the major ingredients of the solar nebula in order from the most abundant to the least abundant?
 
  A) hydrogen and helium gas; rock; metal; hydrogen compounds
  B) hydrogen and helium gas; hydrogen compounds; rock; metal
  C) hydrogen, water, methane, helium
  D) hydrogen compounds; hydrogen and helium gas; metal; rock


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macybarnes

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Reply #1 on: Jul 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

You are on Venus. The slow, backward motion of the Sun is the result of Venus's slow, retrograde rotation.

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Excellent

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