solar system - Math/Science Nucleus
... Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus are considered the gas giants. They are thousands of times larger than the terrestrial planets. Their surface is composed of tens of thousands of Terrestrial planets. kilometers of a sea of liquid gaseous material. Let’s look at how ancient people first started t ...
... Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus are considered the gas giants. They are thousands of times larger than the terrestrial planets. Their surface is composed of tens of thousands of Terrestrial planets. kilometers of a sea of liquid gaseous material. Let’s look at how ancient people first started t ...
Asteroids and Comets
... every few billion years, or maybe one or two collisions over the lifetime of the solar system. Spacecraft pass through the asteroid belt with virtually no chance of a collision, and in fact considerable effort is required for a close flyby of even one asteroid, such as the Galileo spacecraft flyby o ...
... every few billion years, or maybe one or two collisions over the lifetime of the solar system. Spacecraft pass through the asteroid belt with virtually no chance of a collision, and in fact considerable effort is required for a close flyby of even one asteroid, such as the Galileo spacecraft flyby o ...
Jupiter and Saturn Guiding Questions Long orbital periods of Jupiter
... Triton is a frigid, icy world with a young surface and a tenuous atmosphere • Neptune has 13 satellites, one of which (Triton) is comparable in size to our Moon or the Galilean satellites of Jupiter • Triton has a young, icy surface indicative of tectonic activity • The energy for this activity may ...
... Triton is a frigid, icy world with a young surface and a tenuous atmosphere • Neptune has 13 satellites, one of which (Triton) is comparable in size to our Moon or the Galilean satellites of Jupiter • Triton has a young, icy surface indicative of tectonic activity • The energy for this activity may ...
ganycal
... Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature Geoscience 3, 3b 1st March 2010 March 2010. Cover bardment, the phase in lunar and Callisto are twins, history dominated by large and understanding impact events. mede is closer to Jupiter and therefore how they were born the same and gre ...
... Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature Geoscience 3, 3b 1st March 2010 March 2010. Cover bardment, the phase in lunar and Callisto are twins, history dominated by large and understanding impact events. mede is closer to Jupiter and therefore how they were born the same and gre ...
Ch11_Lecture
... cloud around the comet • Fluorescence is the source of a large portion of the comet’s light • Repeated passage by Sun eventually erodes a comet’s gas production ability ...
... cloud around the comet • Fluorescence is the source of a large portion of the comet’s light • Repeated passage by Sun eventually erodes a comet’s gas production ability ...
Voyager
... Jupiter’s Interior and Magnetic Field The gaseous atmosphere on Jupiter is a few thousand miles thick. As one goes deeper in Jupiter’s atmosphere, gaseous hydrogen becomes liquid hydrogen. At 15,000 km below the clouds, it is theorized that pressure and temperature create a state of liquid metal ...
... Jupiter’s Interior and Magnetic Field The gaseous atmosphere on Jupiter is a few thousand miles thick. As one goes deeper in Jupiter’s atmosphere, gaseous hydrogen becomes liquid hydrogen. At 15,000 km below the clouds, it is theorized that pressure and temperature create a state of liquid metal ...
the ringed giants – jupiter and saturn
... atmosphere that is more dense even than Earth’s. This probe is known as Huygens and was built by the European Space Agency. The Huygens probe has been designed to function even if it lands in liquid methane, which may exist on Titan’s surface. Cassini was launched in 1997. Cassini made two flybys of ...
... atmosphere that is more dense even than Earth’s. This probe is known as Huygens and was built by the European Space Agency. The Huygens probe has been designed to function even if it lands in liquid methane, which may exist on Titan’s surface. Cassini was launched in 1997. Cassini made two flybys of ...
Save - Report Builder
... on Jupiter, either. Scientists believe Jupiter does not have a solid surface like Earth does. If you went to Jupiter, you would sink through its clouds. As you get closer to Jupiter’s core, the clouds get denser, or more pressed together. ...
... on Jupiter, either. Scientists believe Jupiter does not have a solid surface like Earth does. If you went to Jupiter, you would sink through its clouds. As you get closer to Jupiter’s core, the clouds get denser, or more pressed together. ...
The Milky Way - Department of Physics
... Notes: Surface gravity g is given in Earth gravities (1 gE = 9.803 m/s2); escape velocity is vesc; albedo is the percent of ALL of the Sun's energy hitting the planet that is reflected (100% would be perfect reflection); temperature and surface gravity for Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune are given ...
... Notes: Surface gravity g is given in Earth gravities (1 gE = 9.803 m/s2); escape velocity is vesc; albedo is the percent of ALL of the Sun's energy hitting the planet that is reflected (100% would be perfect reflection); temperature and surface gravity for Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune are given ...
Lecture 3 - UIC Home
... Callisto's ancient, crater-scarred surface makes it very different from its three more active sibling satellites, Io, Europa and Ganymede. Callisto, 4,800 kilometers (3000 miles) in diameter, displays no large-scale geological features other than impact craters, and every bright spot in these images ...
... Callisto's ancient, crater-scarred surface makes it very different from its three more active sibling satellites, Io, Europa and Ganymede. Callisto, 4,800 kilometers (3000 miles) in diameter, displays no large-scale geological features other than impact craters, and every bright spot in these images ...
What`s That Up In The Sky???
... After 500 or so passes near the Sun off most of a comet's ice and gas is lost leaving a rocky object very much like an asteroid in appearance. ...
... After 500 or so passes near the Sun off most of a comet's ice and gas is lost leaving a rocky object very much like an asteroid in appearance. ...
asteroid-comet-meteor presentation
... After 500 or so passes near the Sun off most of a comet's ice and gas is lost leaving a rocky object very much like an asteroid in appearance. ...
... After 500 or so passes near the Sun off most of a comet's ice and gas is lost leaving a rocky object very much like an asteroid in appearance. ...
COMETS! - Santa Ana College
... our solar system. Fortunately for us, Jupiter and the Sun, because they have a lot of gravity, act like giant vacuum cleaners and can pull in comets that travel through the inner solar system. However, a giant comet or maybe an asteroid struck the Earth 65 million years ago, and may be responsible f ...
... our solar system. Fortunately for us, Jupiter and the Sun, because they have a lot of gravity, act like giant vacuum cleaners and can pull in comets that travel through the inner solar system. However, a giant comet or maybe an asteroid struck the Earth 65 million years ago, and may be responsible f ...
Habitability potential of icy moons around giant planets and the
... Classes I-II: habitable zones on the surface, not much water, small domain Beyond the snow-line: deep habitats within the hydrospheres. Icy moons, Ganymede and Europa and Titan and Enceladus, are the archetypes of classes III-IV of habitable worlds ...
... Classes I-II: habitable zones on the surface, not much water, small domain Beyond the snow-line: deep habitats within the hydrospheres. Icy moons, Ganymede and Europa and Titan and Enceladus, are the archetypes of classes III-IV of habitable worlds ...
Phys 214. Planets and Life
... Several of jovian moons still have a source of internal heat, despite their smaller size. Io (one of Jupiter’s moons) is the most volcanically active body in our solar system! Its internal source of heat is very different from that of planets = tidal heat due to tidal forces. Even though Jupiter’s m ...
... Several of jovian moons still have a source of internal heat, despite their smaller size. Io (one of Jupiter’s moons) is the most volcanically active body in our solar system! Its internal source of heat is very different from that of planets = tidal heat due to tidal forces. Even though Jupiter’s m ...
Asteroids
... • Most likely the force of Jupiter on the planetesimals kept them from coalescing into one object • Less likely that they had been one object and were split into many – If all of the asteroids in the asteroid belt were put together to form a planet, it would be very small, smaller than Pluto. ...
... • Most likely the force of Jupiter on the planetesimals kept them from coalescing into one object • Less likely that they had been one object and were split into many – If all of the asteroids in the asteroid belt were put together to form a planet, it would be very small, smaller than Pluto. ...
Determination of meteor showers on other planets using comet
... from the known ephemerides of the objects. The method is used to determine whether or not meteor showers on other planets in the solar system could be associated with any of 250 known comets. The dates and radiants of these meteor showers are calculated. ...
... from the known ephemerides of the objects. The method is used to determine whether or not meteor showers on other planets in the solar system could be associated with any of 250 known comets. The dates and radiants of these meteor showers are calculated. ...
Chapter 10 - Relativity Group
... cloud around the comet • Repeated passage by Sun eventually erodes a comet’s gas production ability ...
... cloud around the comet • Repeated passage by Sun eventually erodes a comet’s gas production ability ...
Solutions
... Suppose someone claimed to make the discoveries described below. (These are not real discoveries.) Decide whether each discovery should be considered reasonable or surprising. Explain clearly; not all these have definitive answers, so your explanation is more important than your chosen answer. 19. A ...
... Suppose someone claimed to make the discoveries described below. (These are not real discoveries.) Decide whether each discovery should be considered reasonable or surprising. Explain clearly; not all these have definitive answers, so your explanation is more important than your chosen answer. 19. A ...
Chapter 3: Our Solar System
... Pioneer 10 was launched from Cape Canaveral on March 2 nd, 1972 and was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt to reach Jupiter. It had entered the Asteroid Belt on July 15th that year - a region 280 million km wide and 80 million km thick. The material in the Belt encompasses size ...
... Pioneer 10 was launched from Cape Canaveral on March 2 nd, 1972 and was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt to reach Jupiter. It had entered the Asteroid Belt on July 15th that year - a region 280 million km wide and 80 million km thick. The material in the Belt encompasses size ...
Week 5 Lecture
... their mass locked in a small rocky core. For Jupiter this is 11,000 km in diameter, 8 times Earth’s mass with pressures of 70 million bars. • Saturn’s larger core can be inferred from its higher degree of oblateness (due to lesser gravity). However it would be even more oblate were it not for its he ...
... their mass locked in a small rocky core. For Jupiter this is 11,000 km in diameter, 8 times Earth’s mass with pressures of 70 million bars. • Saturn’s larger core can be inferred from its higher degree of oblateness (due to lesser gravity). However it would be even more oblate were it not for its he ...
Asteroids and Comets
... because they are too faint to be seen directly and because their stable orbits do not bring them closer to the Sun The total number of comets within the sphere of influence of our Sun could therefore be on the order of ten trillion (1013)! Their total mass would be similar to that of 1000 Earths Com ...
... because they are too faint to be seen directly and because their stable orbits do not bring them closer to the Sun The total number of comets within the sphere of influence of our Sun could therefore be on the order of ten trillion (1013)! Their total mass would be similar to that of 1000 Earths Com ...
What are Asteroids, Meteors and Comets? How are they similar
... Larger bodies like asteroids and comets can also strike the earth and become meteorites. Meteors will only strike the earth surface when they are just the right size, if they are too small they disintegrate into the atmosphere, if they are too big they will often explode when they hit the atmosphere ...
... Larger bodies like asteroids and comets can also strike the earth and become meteorites. Meteors will only strike the earth surface when they are just the right size, if they are too small they disintegrate into the atmosphere, if they are too big they will often explode when they hit the atmosphere ...
Inquiry 14.1 Analyzing the Weight on Each Planet
... Gravity – Gravity is the attraction between the mass of a body and bodies at or near its surface. Mass – The amount of matter (stuff) in an object. Weight – the measure of the force of gr ...
... Gravity – Gravity is the attraction between the mass of a body and bodies at or near its surface. Mass – The amount of matter (stuff) in an object. Weight – the measure of the force of gr ...
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (formally designated D/1993 F2) was a comet that broke apart and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of Solar System objects. This generated a large amount of coverage in the popular media, and the comet was closely observed by astronomers worldwide. The collision provided new information about Jupiter and highlighted its role in reducing space debris in the inner Solar System.The comet was discovered by astronomers Carolyn and Eugene M. Shoemaker and David Levy. Shoemaker–Levy 9, at the time captured by and orbiting Jupiter, was located on the night of March 24, 1993, in a photograph taken with the 40 cm (16 in) Schmidt telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California. It was the first comet observed to be orbiting a planet, and had probably been captured by the planet around 20 – 30 years earlier.Calculations showed that its unusual fragmented form was due to a previous closer approach to Jupiter in July 1992. At that time, the orbit of Shoemaker–Levy 9 passed within Jupiter's Roche limit, and Jupiter's tidal forces had acted to pull apart the comet. The comet was later observed as a series of fragments ranging up to 2 km (1.2 mi) in diameter. These fragments collided with Jupiter's southern hemisphere between July 16 and July 22, 1994, at a speed of approximately 60 km/s (37 mi/s) or 216,000 km/h (134,000 mph). The prominent scars from the impacts were more easily visible than the Great Red Spot and persisted for many months.