Origin and Evolution of Trojan Asteroids
... while only a few are classified as P and C type. All these objects have low albedos (average around 0.065) and share spectral similarities with short period comets, Centaurs, and transneptunian objects. In addition to Jupiter Trojans, there are five Trojans orbiting in the trailing cloud of Mars. Ap ...
... while only a few are classified as P and C type. All these objects have low albedos (average around 0.065) and share spectral similarities with short period comets, Centaurs, and transneptunian objects. In addition to Jupiter Trojans, there are five Trojans orbiting in the trailing cloud of Mars. Ap ...
A105 Stars and Galaxies
... Large enough to keep a thin atmosphere Craters with dark steaks extending from them – geysers! Voyager II caught a geyser in eruption The geysers are probably a mixture of nitrogen, ice, and carbon compounds heated beneath the surface by sunlight until it expands and bursts to the surface ...
... Large enough to keep a thin atmosphere Craters with dark steaks extending from them – geysers! Voyager II caught a geyser in eruption The geysers are probably a mixture of nitrogen, ice, and carbon compounds heated beneath the surface by sunlight until it expands and bursts to the surface ...
The Space Files: The Outer Solar System
... You have chosen a learning program that will actively motivate your students and provide you with easily accessible and easily manageable instructional guidelines and tools designed to make your teaching role efficient and rewarding. The AIMS Teaching Module (ATM) provides you with a video program c ...
... You have chosen a learning program that will actively motivate your students and provide you with easily accessible and easily manageable instructional guidelines and tools designed to make your teaching role efficient and rewarding. The AIMS Teaching Module (ATM) provides you with a video program c ...
19uranusneptune2s
... The Formation of Uranus and Neptune At 20-30 AU the planetesimals were fewer and more widely dispersed than at 5-10 AU ...
... The Formation of Uranus and Neptune At 20-30 AU the planetesimals were fewer and more widely dispersed than at 5-10 AU ...
The Dynamical Structure of the Kuiper Belt and Its Primordial Origin
... eccentricity of the classical belt is ~0.07. It should be noted, however, that the upper eccentricity boundary of this population is set by the long-term orbital stability of the Kuiper belt (see Plate 7), and thus this semimajor axis region could have contained at some time in the past objects with ...
... eccentricity of the classical belt is ~0.07. It should be noted, however, that the upper eccentricity boundary of this population is set by the long-term orbital stability of the Kuiper belt (see Plate 7), and thus this semimajor axis region could have contained at some time in the past objects with ...
pluto and the platypus - facstaff.bucknell.edu
... There is another explanation for why Pluto’s general anomalousness was slow to exclude it from the planets: Astronomers had nowhere else to put it. Pluto’s case differs substantially from that of the whales, in two specific respects. For one, the purported discovery about whales concerned not the c ...
... There is another explanation for why Pluto’s general anomalousness was slow to exclude it from the planets: Astronomers had nowhere else to put it. Pluto’s case differs substantially from that of the whales, in two specific respects. For one, the purported discovery about whales concerned not the c ...
Evidence from the asteroid belt for a violent past evolution of
... (particularly with larger amplitudes M1,k and M2,k ). Their eccentricities could have been damped by the same mechanism that would have excited them if they had been nearly zero. In other words, the passage through the secular resonances g5 = g2 and g5 = g1 , could have decreased the values of M2,k ...
... (particularly with larger amplitudes M1,k and M2,k ). Their eccentricities could have been damped by the same mechanism that would have excited them if they had been nearly zero. In other words, the passage through the secular resonances g5 = g2 and g5 = g1 , could have decreased the values of M2,k ...
The Planet Neptune
... During the Greek mythology times, astronomers named the 4 inner planets after the most important gods. Astronomers eventually found the outer planets and keep the tradition of naming them after the gods. Once they got to Neptune, they decided to name it after Neptune, the god of the sea. They named ...
... During the Greek mythology times, astronomers named the 4 inner planets after the most important gods. Astronomers eventually found the outer planets and keep the tradition of naming them after the gods. Once they got to Neptune, they decided to name it after Neptune, the god of the sea. They named ...
ori pro 02 semifin [sfn] - SwRI Boulder
... causing, among other things, the lunar LHB. Here we propose a three-year study of several vital remaining LHB issues, organized into five tasks. This is a good time to tackle these questions because of the renewed interest in the LHB shown by the 2002 LPSC’s special session on the LHB, and because o ...
... causing, among other things, the lunar LHB. Here we propose a three-year study of several vital remaining LHB issues, organized into five tasks. This is a good time to tackle these questions because of the renewed interest in the LHB shown by the 2002 LPSC’s special session on the LHB, and because o ...
The History of Astronomy II
... which one of the portion of the planets orbit “B”, “C”, or “D”, would the planet take the same amount of time as it took for the portion of the orbit identified with ...
... which one of the portion of the planets orbit “B”, “C”, or “D”, would the planet take the same amount of time as it took for the portion of the orbit identified with ...
Planet formation
... Snow line: 2.7 AU from the Sun, temperatures are low enough that molecules appear in the form of icy grains, and dust grains have sufficiently low temperatures to capture ice molecules in their mantles. The Snow line is crucial for the planet formation process, as ice-covered grains are suggested to ...
... Snow line: 2.7 AU from the Sun, temperatures are low enough that molecules appear in the form of icy grains, and dust grains have sufficiently low temperatures to capture ice molecules in their mantles. The Snow line is crucial for the planet formation process, as ice-covered grains are suggested to ...
Jupiter – friend or foe? III: the Oort cloud comets
... >~ 200 years, with the full range of orbital inclinations). The other is the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, a population of icy-rocky bodies, again predominantly less than a few tens of km across1, orbiting beyond Neptune in fairly low inclination orbits. Associated with the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt is a less ...
... >~ 200 years, with the full range of orbital inclinations). The other is the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, a population of icy-rocky bodies, again predominantly less than a few tens of km across1, orbiting beyond Neptune in fairly low inclination orbits. Associated with the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt is a less ...
Pluto, the dwarf planet
... packed with small, rocky objects like comets and asteroids. It is located beyond the orbit of Neptune. Like the other icy objects in the Kuiper Belt, Pluto is a very cold world. Its average temperature is 380 degrees below zero. ...
... packed with small, rocky objects like comets and asteroids. It is located beyond the orbit of Neptune. Like the other icy objects in the Kuiper Belt, Pluto is a very cold world. Its average temperature is 380 degrees below zero. ...
Neptune Trojans as a Testbed for Planet Formation
... al. 2004; see also equations (24) and (25) of this paper]. Here we investigate the origin of Neptune Trojans. Unlike other resonant Kuiper belt objects (3:2, 2:1, 5:2, etc.) whose existence may be explained by the outward migration of Neptune in the primordial disk of planetesimals and concomitant r ...
... al. 2004; see also equations (24) and (25) of this paper]. Here we investigate the origin of Neptune Trojans. Unlike other resonant Kuiper belt objects (3:2, 2:1, 5:2, etc.) whose existence may be explained by the outward migration of Neptune in the primordial disk of planetesimals and concomitant r ...
Jupiter - Friend or Foe
... There are two reservoirs of cometary bodies. One is the Oort cloud, a predominantly spherical distribution of 1012-1013 icy bodies, the great majority of which are smaller than 10 km in diameter, occupying a thick shell ranging from approximately 103-105 AU from the Sun (e.g. Horner & Evans, 2002). ...
... There are two reservoirs of cometary bodies. One is the Oort cloud, a predominantly spherical distribution of 1012-1013 icy bodies, the great majority of which are smaller than 10 km in diameter, occupying a thick shell ranging from approximately 103-105 AU from the Sun (e.g. Horner & Evans, 2002). ...
Making the Terrestrial Planets: N-Body Integrations of Planetary
... region. The lower bound is a compromise between making the simulation realistic and avoiding a short integration timestep (and hence a large CPU overhead), which is necessary when some objects have small a. In the simulations using Model C, we extend the outer edge of the disk to 4.0 AU to include e ...
... region. The lower bound is a compromise between making the simulation realistic and avoiding a short integration timestep (and hence a large CPU overhead), which is necessary when some objects have small a. In the simulations using Model C, we extend the outer edge of the disk to 4.0 AU to include e ...
Science Grade 03 Unit 06 Exemplar Lesson 01: Sun, Earth, Moon
... have limitations. Because of those limitations, models may convey misleading information or possess characteristics that are inaccurate. Grade 3 science TEKS introduce the use of models and their limitations. In this lesson, students examine various models of the solar system and the Sun, Earth, Moo ...
... have limitations. Because of those limitations, models may convey misleading information or possess characteristics that are inaccurate. Grade 3 science TEKS introduce the use of models and their limitations. In this lesson, students examine various models of the solar system and the Sun, Earth, Moo ...
Astronomy Test over Jovian Planets
... 16. Jupiter emits about how much energy, compared to how much it receives? a. 1/2 the energy received c. 2 times the energy received b. the same amount as energy received d. 20 times the energy received 17. Jupiter’s magnetic field is a result of a rapid rotation and a. a solid core of iron c. a lar ...
... 16. Jupiter emits about how much energy, compared to how much it receives? a. 1/2 the energy received c. 2 times the energy received b. the same amount as energy received d. 20 times the energy received 17. Jupiter’s magnetic field is a result of a rapid rotation and a. a solid core of iron c. a lar ...
Saturn - Heroku
... and physical characteristics of saturn saturn s orbit lies between those of jupiter and uranus its mean, cassini the grand finale overview - a short animated video describing cassini s grand finale download on the final orbit cassini will plunge into saturn s atmosphere sending back new and, the pla ...
... and physical characteristics of saturn saturn s orbit lies between those of jupiter and uranus its mean, cassini the grand finale overview - a short animated video describing cassini s grand finale download on the final orbit cassini will plunge into saturn s atmosphere sending back new and, the pla ...
Outer irregular satellites of the planets and their
... and references therein). Mars’ two small satellites Phobos and Deimos resemble regular collisional shards, but some have suggested that they may be captured bodies similar to the irregular satellites of the giant planets (Burns 1992). No outer irregular satellites of Mars are known to exist (Sheppar ...
... and references therein). Mars’ two small satellites Phobos and Deimos resemble regular collisional shards, but some have suggested that they may be captured bodies similar to the irregular satellites of the giant planets (Burns 1992). No outer irregular satellites of Mars are known to exist (Sheppar ...
Outer irregular satellites of the planets and their relationship with
... (Heppenheimer & Porco 1977) and/or higher collisional or collisionless interaction probabilities with nearby small bodies (Colombo & Franklin 1971; Tsui 2000). Below we discuss each of these in more detail. 3.1. Capture by Gas Drag During early planet formation the giant planets likely had primordia ...
... (Heppenheimer & Porco 1977) and/or higher collisional or collisionless interaction probabilities with nearby small bodies (Colombo & Franklin 1971; Tsui 2000). Below we discuss each of these in more detail. 3.1. Capture by Gas Drag During early planet formation the giant planets likely had primordia ...
Our Solar System
... Nereid is an irregularly shaped moon about 340 km across. Its orbit is very eccentric or noncircular. It may have been captured by Neptune or moved into the eccentric orbit by Triton's gravity when Triton got captured. In Roman mythology Nereids were sea nymphs. ...
... Nereid is an irregularly shaped moon about 340 km across. Its orbit is very eccentric or noncircular. It may have been captured by Neptune or moved into the eccentric orbit by Triton's gravity when Triton got captured. In Roman mythology Nereids were sea nymphs. ...
Saturn - Kansas City Public Schools
... beyond the edge of the main rings and now called the “F Ring” is shepherded by a pair of small moonlets on either side. Their gravitational nudges are sufficient to keep the ring particles narrowly grouped together. There seem to be other forces at work on the rings as well. The Voyager flybys revea ...
... beyond the edge of the main rings and now called the “F Ring” is shepherded by a pair of small moonlets on either side. Their gravitational nudges are sufficient to keep the ring particles narrowly grouped together. There seem to be other forces at work on the rings as well. The Voyager flybys revea ...
solar system - National Geographic Society
... Sun? Tell students that planets revolve counterclockwise, as seen when looking down on it from above the Solar System. ...
... Sun? Tell students that planets revolve counterclockwise, as seen when looking down on it from above the Solar System. ...
PLUTO - science1d
... 4. How long does it take Pluto to revolve around the Sun once (how long is one year on Pluto)?_______________________ 5. Is Pluto's orbit close to being circular or quite eccentric? _____________________ 6. How many degrees is the orbit of Pluto tilted from the plane of the ecliptic? _______________ ...
... 4. How long does it take Pluto to revolve around the Sun once (how long is one year on Pluto)?_______________________ 5. Is Pluto's orbit close to being circular or quite eccentric? _____________________ 6. How many degrees is the orbit of Pluto tilted from the plane of the ecliptic? _______________ ...