Author Question: It's cold You are sitting on what appears to be an ice-covered world (water ice). The Sun is low on ... (Read 29 times)

audragclark · **on:** Jul 27, 2018

It's cold You are sitting on what appears to be an ice-covered world (water ice). The Sun is low on the horizon and circles the horizon about once every 24 hours.

Despite the low Sun, you can almost feel the skin cancers appearing on your exposed face (because there is little ozone to protect you). Despite these discomforts, you are pleased to find that the air is quite satisfactory; oxygen seems plentiful, and you are able to breathe even without the life-support belt.

Question 2

For a nova to occur, the system must have already been a

A) astrometric binary.
B) detached binary.
C) spectroscopic binary.
D) mass-transfer binary.
E) eclipsing binary.

Dinolord · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 27, 2018

Answer to Question 1

You have returned to Earth, in the Antarctic spring. (The ozone hole appears during the spring.)

Answer to Question 2

D