Chap2-RadialVelocity
... Let ε be the Doppler shift, S(v) the spectrum and M(v) the mask, both expressed in velocity space v, the cross-correlation function is defined as ...
... Let ε be the Doppler shift, S(v) the spectrum and M(v) the mask, both expressed in velocity space v, the cross-correlation function is defined as ...
CAPTURE OF IRREGULAR SATELLITES DURING PLANETARY
... fraction of these planetesimals evolved into the inner solar system, producing the LHB. To study (2), we use the LHB variant of the Nice model taken from Gomes et al. (2005). In times after the LHB, the planetary orbits become gradually less eccentric due to the effects of dynamical friction from th ...
... fraction of these planetesimals evolved into the inner solar system, producing the LHB. To study (2), we use the LHB variant of the Nice model taken from Gomes et al. (2005). In times after the LHB, the planetary orbits become gradually less eccentric due to the effects of dynamical friction from th ...
On the irrelevance of being a PLUTO! Size Scale of Stars and Planets
... • Kuiper belt is probably the last stable location of the solar system where the escape velocity (~ 7 km/s) is much higher than rotation velocity (~ 5 km/s). Beyond this, the Sun’s gravity is too weak. • The Kuiper belt has to be studied in detail for information on early solar system and its edge. ...
... • Kuiper belt is probably the last stable location of the solar system where the escape velocity (~ 7 km/s) is much higher than rotation velocity (~ 5 km/s). Beyond this, the Sun’s gravity is too weak. • The Kuiper belt has to be studied in detail for information on early solar system and its edge. ...
IPSOrigins - Computer Graphics Research at Caltech
... the origin and evolution of life within the Solar System. Some of the ingredients for life may have came to the Earth via the IPS following the trails of comets and asteroids. The asteroid which caused the extinction of the dinosaurs at the KT Boundary is believed to have come to Earth via the IPS. ...
... the origin and evolution of life within the Solar System. Some of the ingredients for life may have came to the Earth via the IPS following the trails of comets and asteroids. The asteroid which caused the extinction of the dinosaurs at the KT Boundary is believed to have come to Earth via the IPS. ...
From The Sun To Beyond Pluto
... science news for students - beyond pluto a new 9th planet beyond neptune pluto is the tenth largest object orbiting the sun solar system the eight major planets and their moons in orbit, ebook from the sun to beyond pluto reader s theater - copper sun the book thief from the sun to beyond pluto take ...
... science news for students - beyond pluto a new 9th planet beyond neptune pluto is the tenth largest object orbiting the sun solar system the eight major planets and their moons in orbit, ebook from the sun to beyond pluto reader s theater - copper sun the book thief from the sun to beyond pluto take ...
Pluto Moon Discovered
... and orientations of their orbits. All four appear to be co-planar and nearly circular. If the moons were gravitationally captured objects they would more likely have inclined and elliptical orbits, like the outermost moons of Jupiter. They are also in nearly resonant orbits, that is, the orbital per ...
... and orientations of their orbits. All four appear to be co-planar and nearly circular. If the moons were gravitationally captured objects they would more likely have inclined and elliptical orbits, like the outermost moons of Jupiter. They are also in nearly resonant orbits, that is, the orbital per ...
Chaos in the Solar System
... two-body problems is an excellent starting approximation. Using their “Keplerian” orbits, one can calculate a first approximation to their forces on each other. Successive iterations of that procedure, carried out with great sophistication, are the techniques called celestial mechanics. The classic ...
... two-body problems is an excellent starting approximation. Using their “Keplerian” orbits, one can calculate a first approximation to their forces on each other. Successive iterations of that procedure, carried out with great sophistication, are the techniques called celestial mechanics. The classic ...
The Interior Structure, Composition, and Evolution of Giant Planets
... free energies Fmol and Fmet , respectively. The original EOS was constructed to fit the gas gun data by adjusting the effective molecular pair potential, and to fit their low reshock temperatures by addition of a fitting term Ffit in the total free energy. This term causes a region where ∇ad < 0 alo ...
... free energies Fmol and Fmet , respectively. The original EOS was constructed to fit the gas gun data by adjusting the effective molecular pair potential, and to fit their low reshock temperatures by addition of a fitting term Ffit in the total free energy. This term causes a region where ∇ad < 0 alo ...
The Interior Structure, Composition, and Evolution of Giant Planets
... free energies Fmol and Fmet , respectively. The original EOS was constructed to fit the gas gun data by adjusting the effective molecular pair potential, and to fit their low reshock temperatures by addition of a fitting term Ffit in the total free energy. This term causes a region where ∇ad < 0 alo ...
... free energies Fmol and Fmet , respectively. The original EOS was constructed to fit the gas gun data by adjusting the effective molecular pair potential, and to fit their low reshock temperatures by addition of a fitting term Ffit in the total free energy. This term causes a region where ∇ad < 0 alo ...
Pluto, Charon & the Plutons
... • Resonant KBOs: are found in resonances with Neptune, mostly at the 3:2 resonance - just like Pluto - and make up about 35% of the KBOs population. They’re often called Plutinos. • Scattered KBOs: are on large highly eccentric and inclined orbits. They’re on very distant orbits - out as a few 100 A ...
... • Resonant KBOs: are found in resonances with Neptune, mostly at the 3:2 resonance - just like Pluto - and make up about 35% of the KBOs population. They’re often called Plutinos. • Scattered KBOs: are on large highly eccentric and inclined orbits. They’re on very distant orbits - out as a few 100 A ...
Let`s PLAN IT--Getting Your System in Order
... Students should be familiar with the following concepts prior to being taught this module: ...
... Students should be familiar with the following concepts prior to being taught this module: ...
A Thick Cloud of Neptune Trojans and Their Colors
... the solar system after any marked planetary migration (4, 12). These simulations also demonstrate that Saturn and Uranus are not expected to have any substantial primordial Trojan populations. Recent numerical simulations of small bodies temporarily passing through the giant planet region, such as C ...
... the solar system after any marked planetary migration (4, 12). These simulations also demonstrate that Saturn and Uranus are not expected to have any substantial primordial Trojan populations. Recent numerical simulations of small bodies temporarily passing through the giant planet region, such as C ...
TWO NEW LONG-PERIOD GIANT PLANETS FROM THE
... Observatory Tull Coude spectrograph at the 2.7 m Harlan J. Smith Telescope. In the case of y1 Dra B we also detect a long-term nonlinear trend in our data that indicates the presence of an additional giant planet, similar to the Jupiter–Saturn pair. The primary of the binary star system, y1 DraA, e ...
... Observatory Tull Coude spectrograph at the 2.7 m Harlan J. Smith Telescope. In the case of y1 Dra B we also detect a long-term nonlinear trend in our data that indicates the presence of an additional giant planet, similar to the Jupiter–Saturn pair. The primary of the binary star system, y1 DraA, e ...
DYNAMICS OF THE GIANT PLANETS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM IN
... current orbital configuration could then be achieved from the gravitational interaction between the planets and the disk particles. More precisely, the Nice model postulated that the ratio of the orbital periods of Saturn and Jupiter was initially slightly less than 2, so that the planets were close ...
... current orbital configuration could then be achieved from the gravitational interaction between the planets and the disk particles. More precisely, the Nice model postulated that the ratio of the orbital periods of Saturn and Jupiter was initially slightly less than 2, so that the planets were close ...
Pluto, the dwarf planet
... together in the informally named al-Idrisi mountains. Photo: Photo: NASA. ...
... together in the informally named al-Idrisi mountains. Photo: Photo: NASA. ...
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... obtained at 1:2. The resonance crossings excite the orbital eccentricities and mutual orbital inclinations to the present values. Jupiter ,Saturn and Uranus have the present eccentricities of 6%, 9% and 8% respectively . The present mutual inclination of the orbital planes of Saturn, Uranus and Nept ...
... obtained at 1:2. The resonance crossings excite the orbital eccentricities and mutual orbital inclinations to the present values. Jupiter ,Saturn and Uranus have the present eccentricities of 6%, 9% and 8% respectively . The present mutual inclination of the orbital planes of Saturn, Uranus and Nept ...
Contrast analysis between the trajectory of the planetary system and
... period for the magnetic solar activity (Qu, 2007). Yang et al. (2010) and Zhao et al. (2014) conducted much research on the sunspot cycle. Friis-Christensen and Lassen (1991), Haigh (1996), Sharp (2013), Mörner (2010), Zhao and Feng (2014), Liu et al. (2011), and Zhao et al. (2011) successfully inve ...
... period for the magnetic solar activity (Qu, 2007). Yang et al. (2010) and Zhao et al. (2014) conducted much research on the sunspot cycle. Friis-Christensen and Lassen (1991), Haigh (1996), Sharp (2013), Mörner (2010), Zhao and Feng (2014), Liu et al. (2011), and Zhao et al. (2011) successfully inve ...
Pluto`s Identity Crisis
... response left Pluto feeling less and less like a planet. Uranus claimed to be a planet because of thick clouds — thick clouds that Pluto did not share. For Saturn it was rings that glistened silver and gold in the light of the Sun. For Jupiter it was size. Earth pointed out that its dinosaurs all de ...
... response left Pluto feeling less and less like a planet. Uranus claimed to be a planet because of thick clouds — thick clouds that Pluto did not share. For Saturn it was rings that glistened silver and gold in the light of the Sun. For Jupiter it was size. Earth pointed out that its dinosaurs all de ...
Program with Abstracts - Division on Dynamical Astronomy
... 102.02 – Did our Solar System once have a STIP? Con"nuing the established tradi"on in the field of specula"ve "fairy tales", we postulate that our Solar System once had a set of several addi"onal Earth-scale planets interior to the orbit of Venus. This would resolve a known issue that the energy and ...
... 102.02 – Did our Solar System once have a STIP? Con"nuing the established tradi"on in the field of specula"ve "fairy tales", we postulate that our Solar System once had a set of several addi"onal Earth-scale planets interior to the orbit of Venus. This would resolve a known issue that the energy and ...
You Have a Date with Pluto: July 14, 2015
... beyond the orbit of Neptune -- billions of kilometers from our sun. • Pluto and Eris are the best known of these icy worlds. • There may be hundreds more of these ice dwarfs planets out there • Oort cloud region of long term comets ...
... beyond the orbit of Neptune -- billions of kilometers from our sun. • Pluto and Eris are the best known of these icy worlds. • There may be hundreds more of these ice dwarfs planets out there • Oort cloud region of long term comets ...
DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION OF THE OORT CLOUD Paul R
... likely to be expected. Using an assumed albedo of 0.3 raises the previous estimate of cometary masses in Weissman's paper by a factor of 2.8. These revised values are shown in Table 2. The number of comets passing within 1.4 times the semimajor axis of each of the Jovian planets and their dynamical ...
... likely to be expected. Using an assumed albedo of 0.3 raises the previous estimate of cometary masses in Weissman's paper by a factor of 2.8. These revised values are shown in Table 2. The number of comets passing within 1.4 times the semimajor axis of each of the Jovian planets and their dynamical ...
The Dynamical History of Chariklo and its Rings
... across the full uncertainty range of the orbital parameter. The initial orbital elements of the four giant planets were found using the NASA JPL HORIZON ephemeris3 for epoch Jan 1, 2000 at UT 00:00. Inclinations and longitudes for both Chariklo and the planets were relative to the ecliptic plane. Th ...
... across the full uncertainty range of the orbital parameter. The initial orbital elements of the four giant planets were found using the NASA JPL HORIZON ephemeris3 for epoch Jan 1, 2000 at UT 00:00. Inclinations and longitudes for both Chariklo and the planets were relative to the ecliptic plane. Th ...
threat definition and verification
... This crop circle has another unusual feature; an off-center cleared circle containing the inner planets’ orbits. Assuming this circle defines the centroid of the Sun-Vulcan complex, then it is in the direction of Vulcan as of either the date the T367 crop circle was formed or the date represented by ...
... This crop circle has another unusual feature; an off-center cleared circle containing the inner planets’ orbits. Assuming this circle defines the centroid of the Sun-Vulcan complex, then it is in the direction of Vulcan as of either the date the T367 crop circle was formed or the date represented by ...