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bio_gurl

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What mechanism is most responsible for generating the internal heat of Io that drives its volcanic activity?
 
  A) bombardment
  B) radioactive decay
  C) accretion
  D) tidal heating
  E) differentiation

Question 2

What would happen if a small piece of neutron star material (say the size of a paper clip) struck the Earth?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

The extremely dense material could not be supported by the ordinary material on Earth and it would plunge to the center of the Earth under the action of gravity. Its momentum would carry it past the center, back to the other side and it would continue to oscillate back and forth through the Earth creating a small hole each time (that would rapidly fill with molten rock) until friction finally brought it to rest at the center of the Earth.



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