Origin of SS - Independence High School
... Other residents of the solar system 5. Meteoroids - small fragments of asteroids that enter earth’s atmosphere (dust to boulder sized) ...
... Other residents of the solar system 5. Meteoroids - small fragments of asteroids that enter earth’s atmosphere (dust to boulder sized) ...
Jovian Planets - Valhalla High School
... the solar nebula allowed condensing bodies there to capture hydrogen and hydrogen-rich gases This together with the vast amount of material in the outer Solar System lead to the creation of the four large Jovian planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune Composed mainly of gaseous and liquid ...
... the solar nebula allowed condensing bodies there to capture hydrogen and hydrogen-rich gases This together with the vast amount of material in the outer Solar System lead to the creation of the four large Jovian planets – Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune Composed mainly of gaseous and liquid ...
Jupiter and Saturn
... seen on Uranus or Neptune • Presumably the low temperatures have caused almost all the ammonia to precipitate into the interiors of the planets • All of these planets’ clouds are composed of methane • • Much more cloud activity is seen on Neptune than on Uranus. • This is because Uranus lacks a subs ...
... seen on Uranus or Neptune • Presumably the low temperatures have caused almost all the ammonia to precipitate into the interiors of the planets • All of these planets’ clouds are composed of methane • • Much more cloud activity is seen on Neptune than on Uranus. • This is because Uranus lacks a subs ...
The outer solar system has four giant planets.
... Saturn was the first planet known to have rings. A planetary ring is a wide, flat zone of small particles that orbit a planet. All four gas giants have rings around their equators. Saturn’s rings are made of chunks of water ice the size of a building or smaller. Larger chunks, considered to be tiny ...
... Saturn was the first planet known to have rings. A planetary ring is a wide, flat zone of small particles that orbit a planet. All four gas giants have rings around their equators. Saturn’s rings are made of chunks of water ice the size of a building or smaller. Larger chunks, considered to be tiny ...
Moonstruck Scientists Count 63 and Rising
... It is a rare person who knows the answer—63 moons and climbing. Just last year, two more satellites were discovered circling counterclockwise around Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. It’s almost inconceivable there aren’t more moons out there.” Said Brett Gladman, an astronomer at Cornell Uni ...
... It is a rare person who knows the answer—63 moons and climbing. Just last year, two more satellites were discovered circling counterclockwise around Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. It’s almost inconceivable there aren’t more moons out there.” Said Brett Gladman, an astronomer at Cornell Uni ...
Constructing the Solar System: A Smashing Success!
... Asteroids are bodies that formed in the early Solar System, and are likely to represent planetesimals that survived the period of planet building and are still in orbit around the Sun today. Most asteroids are found in orbits between Mars and Jupiter (although some are on Earth-crossing orbits, and ...
... Asteroids are bodies that formed in the early Solar System, and are likely to represent planetesimals that survived the period of planet building and are still in orbit around the Sun today. Most asteroids are found in orbits between Mars and Jupiter (although some are on Earth-crossing orbits, and ...
Neptune Facts Mr J Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun. It was
... Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun. It was the first planet to get its existence predicted by mathematical calculations before it was actually seen through a telescope on Sept. 23, 1846. Irregularities in the orbit of Uranus led French astronomer Alexis Bouvard to suggest that the gravitation ...
... Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun. It was the first planet to get its existence predicted by mathematical calculations before it was actually seen through a telescope on Sept. 23, 1846. Irregularities in the orbit of Uranus led French astronomer Alexis Bouvard to suggest that the gravitation ...
Magnetic fields
... very cold. Triton is the coldest known body in the solar system at an average temperature of 35 K. Temperatures this cold create some very odd effects. Triton is volcanically active. However, the volcanoes are made of ice and water rather than rock and lava. These “cryovolcanoes” erupt liquid water, ...
... very cold. Triton is the coldest known body in the solar system at an average temperature of 35 K. Temperatures this cold create some very odd effects. Triton is volcanically active. However, the volcanoes are made of ice and water rather than rock and lava. These “cryovolcanoes” erupt liquid water, ...
Primordial Matter in the Solar System
... Comets/Meteors are mainly ice(snow) balls, and Asteroid/Meteorites are rocky/metallic objects • Comets would have been a source of water on the Earth • Comets originate in either (i) the Oort Cloud at the edge of the solar system, or (ii) the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of Pluto ...
... Comets/Meteors are mainly ice(snow) balls, and Asteroid/Meteorites are rocky/metallic objects • Comets would have been a source of water on the Earth • Comets originate in either (i) the Oort Cloud at the edge of the solar system, or (ii) the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of Pluto ...
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... c. _________ (!) methane on surface d. Similar to ___________ Earth (?) e. *Low surface _________ (1/7 gE) f. 10 x more gas -- 60% > pressure 3. Frigid -- ____ K surface C. Medium-sized moons 1. __ of 6 ________ locked 2. Similar densities - unlike Jupiter’s 3. _____ -- largest, but only 1/30th Mm 4 ...
... c. _________ (!) methane on surface d. Similar to ___________ Earth (?) e. *Low surface _________ (1/7 gE) f. 10 x more gas -- 60% > pressure 3. Frigid -- ____ K surface C. Medium-sized moons 1. __ of 6 ________ locked 2. Similar densities - unlike Jupiter’s 3. _____ -- largest, but only 1/30th Mm 4 ...
Dynamical properties of the Solar System Dynamics of planetary
... • Even using the newtonian approximation, the treatment of N-body systems, such as the Solar System, is extremely complex • However, over a short period of time, the motion of a planet around its host star can be treated as a 2-body problem, neglecting perturbations due to other bodies in the syst ...
... • Even using the newtonian approximation, the treatment of N-body systems, such as the Solar System, is extremely complex • However, over a short period of time, the motion of a planet around its host star can be treated as a 2-body problem, neglecting perturbations due to other bodies in the syst ...
INSTITUTO EDUCACIONAL SÃO JOÃO DA ESCÓCIA
... The Sun, eight planets and their moons, an asteroid belt and many comets and meteors are in our Solar System. The Sun is in the center.It is a large, bright object in the Solar System. Around the Sun there are planets,moons,dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, meteoroids, rocks, interplanetary dust and ...
... The Sun, eight planets and their moons, an asteroid belt and many comets and meteors are in our Solar System. The Sun is in the center.It is a large, bright object in the Solar System. Around the Sun there are planets,moons,dwarf planets, asteroids, comets, meteoroids, rocks, interplanetary dust and ...
the outer planets, their satellites and the plutoids
... 2. A planet must also have enough mass to become nearly spherical. 3. And a planet must be able to sweep other small astronomical objects out of its orbital path. 4. The object must have a maximum magnitude larger than 1+. Such objects will be called Plutoids or trans-Neptunian Objects. Satellite ...
... 2. A planet must also have enough mass to become nearly spherical. 3. And a planet must be able to sweep other small astronomical objects out of its orbital path. 4. The object must have a maximum magnitude larger than 1+. Such objects will be called Plutoids or trans-Neptunian Objects. Satellite ...
Chapter 7
... •Was another planet influencing its motion? • The deviation led to the discovery of Neptune •Faint ring system not visible with ground-based telescopes ...
... •Was another planet influencing its motion? • The deviation led to the discovery of Neptune •Faint ring system not visible with ground-based telescopes ...
Astronomy
... Heavier molecules like O2, H2O, N2 have less of a tail than He and H2. On Earth the H2 and He in the tail of the speed distribution can reach escape velocity of 11.2 km/s. Over time these elements leak out of the atmosphere. On the Jovian planets the escape velocity is too high for the H 2 or He to ...
... Heavier molecules like O2, H2O, N2 have less of a tail than He and H2. On Earth the H2 and He in the tail of the speed distribution can reach escape velocity of 11.2 km/s. Over time these elements leak out of the atmosphere. On the Jovian planets the escape velocity is too high for the H 2 or He to ...
23.3 Note Guide The Outer Planets In 2004, the space probe
... The _____________________________ probe, carried into space by the Cassini orbiter, will descend to Titan’s surface for further studies In this section, we’ll take a clue from Cassini and explore the outer planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto ...
... The _____________________________ probe, carried into space by the Cassini orbiter, will descend to Titan’s surface for further studies In this section, we’ll take a clue from Cassini and explore the outer planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto ...
Astro 1010 Planetary Astronomy Sample Questions for Exam 5
... a) large pieces of ice and rock which break off when it collides with other objects. b) mostly methane gas. c) gases formed by the evaporation of ice in the nucleus when the comet gets close to the Sun. d) the solid body of the comet. 7. Which of the following is not a source of comets. a) The Oort ...
... a) large pieces of ice and rock which break off when it collides with other objects. b) mostly methane gas. c) gases formed by the evaporation of ice in the nucleus when the comet gets close to the Sun. d) the solid body of the comet. 7. Which of the following is not a source of comets. a) The Oort ...
Objects in the Kuiper belt are made mostly of rock and
... 18 Suppose that large Jovian planets had never formed in our solar system. Which of the following would most likely be true? a) Neither the asteroid belt nor Oort cloud would exist. b) Earth would have suffered far fewer impacts. c) There would be a large empty region in our solar system between the ...
... 18 Suppose that large Jovian planets had never formed in our solar system. Which of the following would most likely be true? a) Neither the asteroid belt nor Oort cloud would exist. b) Earth would have suffered far fewer impacts. c) There would be a large empty region in our solar system between the ...
ppt
... never formed into planets during the formation of the solar system Several hundred thousand asteroids have been observed in the 10km to 100km size range, there maybe millions more of about 1km in size 26 are larger than 200km, the biggest is Ceres (933 km) and accounts for 25% of the mass of all the ...
... never formed into planets during the formation of the solar system Several hundred thousand asteroids have been observed in the 10km to 100km size range, there maybe millions more of about 1km in size 26 are larger than 200km, the biggest is Ceres (933 km) and accounts for 25% of the mass of all the ...
ASTR1010_HW09
... it will then look as bright as the full Moon. Neptune’s orbit is about 30 AU, so you would have to move the Sun more than 20 times farther than Neptune’s orbit. So, that’s what this problem is looking for. But, if you think about it, the Sun moved to 632 AU would not look like the full Moon in SIZE, ...
... it will then look as bright as the full Moon. Neptune’s orbit is about 30 AU, so you would have to move the Sun more than 20 times farther than Neptune’s orbit. So, that’s what this problem is looking for. But, if you think about it, the Sun moved to 632 AU would not look like the full Moon in SIZE, ...
Lesson #2: Planets - Center for Learning in Action
... (or plutoids), an asteroid belt, comets, meteors, and others. The sun is the center of our solar system; the planets, their moons, the asteroids, comets, and other rocks and gas all orbit the sun. The nine planets that orbit the sun are (in order from the sun): Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, ...
... (or plutoids), an asteroid belt, comets, meteors, and others. The sun is the center of our solar system; the planets, their moons, the asteroids, comets, and other rocks and gas all orbit the sun. The nine planets that orbit the sun are (in order from the sun): Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, ...