When a Formal Definition of a Planet in the Solar

question 115

Multiple Choice

When a formal definition of a planet in the solar system was adopted, Pluto was reclassifiedas a dwarf planet. What characteristic of planets does NOT describe Pluto?

• A)Planets orbit the Sun.
• B)Planets are approximately spherical.
• C)Planets have cleared the neighborhood around their orbit.
• D)Planets orbit in ellipses with low eccentricity.
• E)Planets orbit in or very near the ecliptic plane.

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Definitions:

Store Address

Relating to storing or saving a memory address in a programming context, often used in variables to reference locations.

Variable

An element of coding that represents a storage location paired with an associated symbolic name, which contains some known or unknown quantity or information, also called its value.

Indirection Operator

An operator (*) in C and C++ used to access the value at the address pointed to by a pointer variable.