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The Origin of Our Solar System Part 1 Survey of the solar system
... • Craters are common on almost every solid surface in solar system (SS). • The 2 groups are also distinguished by properties such as presence or absence of rings and numbers of moons. • The planets have evolved since their formation, so other evidence is necessary. – Clues can be found in the smalle ...
... • Craters are common on almost every solid surface in solar system (SS). • The 2 groups are also distinguished by properties such as presence or absence of rings and numbers of moons. • The planets have evolved since their formation, so other evidence is necessary. – Clues can be found in the smalle ...
Lecture - Faculty
... Asteroids (minor planets) • Bode’s Law suggests a planet between Mars and Jup. at 2.8 AU: – 1801 – Piazzi (It.) discovers Ceres – 1804 – Juno disc. – 1807 – Vesta disc. (these are the largest ...
... Asteroids (minor planets) • Bode’s Law suggests a planet between Mars and Jup. at 2.8 AU: – 1801 – Piazzi (It.) discovers Ceres – 1804 – Juno disc. – 1807 – Vesta disc. (these are the largest ...
Why Pluto is No Longer a Planet
... Over the last few decades, powerful new ground and space-based observatories have completely changed previous understanding of the outer Solar System. Instead of being the only planet in its region, like the rest of the Solar System, Pluto and its moons are now known to be just a large example of a ...
... Over the last few decades, powerful new ground and space-based observatories have completely changed previous understanding of the outer Solar System. Instead of being the only planet in its region, like the rest of the Solar System, Pluto and its moons are now known to be just a large example of a ...
Asteroids, Comets, and Pluto: The Small Pieces
... formed. Fragments float around in space and are drawn together by the force of gravity. This gravitational pull forms the fragments into a sphere. In the case of asteroids, Jupiter's gravity prevented accretion of asteroids into a single planet. The gap between Mars and Jupiter is known as the aster ...
... formed. Fragments float around in space and are drawn together by the force of gravity. This gravitational pull forms the fragments into a sphere. In the case of asteroids, Jupiter's gravity prevented accretion of asteroids into a single planet. The gap between Mars and Jupiter is known as the aster ...
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 ...
Today`s Powerpoint
... by breakup of smaller bodies? Also maybe "sandblasting" of material off moon surfaces by impacts. Given rings have short lifetime and all Jovian planets have them, their formation must be common. Neptune's moon Triton is spiraling in to the planet and should produce spectacular ring system in 100 mi ...
... by breakup of smaller bodies? Also maybe "sandblasting" of material off moon surfaces by impacts. Given rings have short lifetime and all Jovian planets have them, their formation must be common. Neptune's moon Triton is spiraling in to the planet and should produce spectacular ring system in 100 mi ...
Lecture 3
... March 28, 2004, with Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer. Closer inspection by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals that these spots are actually a rare alignment of three of Jupiter's largest moons - Io, Ganymede, and Callisto - across the planet's face. In this image, the ...
... March 28, 2004, with Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer. Closer inspection by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals that these spots are actually a rare alignment of three of Jupiter's largest moons - Io, Ganymede, and Callisto - across the planet's face. In this image, the ...
The formation of the Solar system
... greater distances from the sun. • Further out, water vapor, ammonia, and methane could condense into solid form, creating the cores of the Jovian ...
... greater distances from the sun. • Further out, water vapor, ammonia, and methane could condense into solid form, creating the cores of the Jovian ...
Formation of the Solar System
... they 'regularize' the orbits. That is, the collisions with particles moving slightly outward in their orbits are as common as collisions with particles moving slightly inward in their orbits, causing the orbit of the growing body to become more and more circular, and less elliptical. Similarly, par ...
... they 'regularize' the orbits. That is, the collisions with particles moving slightly outward in their orbits are as common as collisions with particles moving slightly inward in their orbits, causing the orbit of the growing body to become more and more circular, and less elliptical. Similarly, par ...
Construct Planetary Orbits Around the Sun Student Activity Sheet
... 1. Place a blank sheet of paper on top of the cardboard and place two thumbtacks or pins about 3 cm apart. 2. Tie the string into a circle with a circumference of 15 to 20 cm. Loop the string around the thumbtacks. With someone holding the tacks or pins, place a pencil inside the loop and pull it ta ...
... 1. Place a blank sheet of paper on top of the cardboard and place two thumbtacks or pins about 3 cm apart. 2. Tie the string into a circle with a circumference of 15 to 20 cm. Loop the string around the thumbtacks. With someone holding the tacks or pins, place a pencil inside the loop and pull it ta ...
Gas Giant Planets
... in orbit 2-3 radii away from a gas giant world. – They occur because gas giants have lots of moons: • Impacts chip off material that becomes rings. • Material is nudged into resonance orbits by the gravity of the moons, forming rings • Some rings are held by the gravity of tiny shepherd moons. ...
... in orbit 2-3 radii away from a gas giant world. – They occur because gas giants have lots of moons: • Impacts chip off material that becomes rings. • Material is nudged into resonance orbits by the gravity of the moons, forming rings • Some rings are held by the gravity of tiny shepherd moons. ...
Vocabulary - Understanding Revolution in our Solar System
... Rank the planets’ orbits in order of increasing eccentricity. Do they group together? Calculate the average eccentricity for all the planets in our solar system, the Jovian planets, and the terrestrial planets. ...
... Rank the planets’ orbits in order of increasing eccentricity. Do they group together? Calculate the average eccentricity for all the planets in our solar system, the Jovian planets, and the terrestrial planets. ...
10 - The Catholic University of America
... The orbital evolution of >30,000 bodies with initial orbits close to those of Jupiterfamily comets (JFCs), Halley-type comets, long-period comets, and asteroids in the resonances 3/1 and 5/2 with Jupiter, and also of >20,000 dust particles produced by these small bodies was integrated [4-8] until al ...
... The orbital evolution of >30,000 bodies with initial orbits close to those of Jupiterfamily comets (JFCs), Halley-type comets, long-period comets, and asteroids in the resonances 3/1 and 5/2 with Jupiter, and also of >20,000 dust particles produced by these small bodies was integrated [4-8] until al ...
Lecture
... Asteroids (minor planets) • Bode’s Law suggests a planet between Mars and Jup. at 2.8 AU: – 1801 – Piazzi (It.) discovers Ceres – 1804 – Juno disc. – 1807 – Vesta disc. (these are the largest asteroids) ...
... Asteroids (minor planets) • Bode’s Law suggests a planet between Mars and Jup. at 2.8 AU: – 1801 – Piazzi (It.) discovers Ceres – 1804 – Juno disc. – 1807 – Vesta disc. (these are the largest asteroids) ...
Pluto
... Kenneth Edgeworth in 1943. However, Gerard Kuiper in 1951 published a paper mentioning objects beyond Pluto, and because of this paper, the belt became generally known as the Kuiper belt. Moreover, the bodies that comprise the region are referred to as Kuiper belt objects (KBOs). The largest KBOs in ...
... Kenneth Edgeworth in 1943. However, Gerard Kuiper in 1951 published a paper mentioning objects beyond Pluto, and because of this paper, the belt became generally known as the Kuiper belt. Moreover, the bodies that comprise the region are referred to as Kuiper belt objects (KBOs). The largest KBOs in ...
Inner_and_Outer_Planets_Using_Kidspiration Lesson
... Inner and Outer planets Using Kidspiration Kindergarten 5th Six Weeks Lesson Name: Inner and Outer Planets Using Kidspiration TEKS: K.2A, K.2D Technology TEKS: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 7A, 7B, 11A, 11B Objective: Student is expected to sort inner and outer planets through the use of a Kidspiration template. ...
... Inner and Outer planets Using Kidspiration Kindergarten 5th Six Weeks Lesson Name: Inner and Outer Planets Using Kidspiration TEKS: K.2A, K.2D Technology TEKS: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 7A, 7B, 11A, 11B Objective: Student is expected to sort inner and outer planets through the use of a Kidspiration template. ...
Name: Period: ______ Uranus and Neptune The Discovery of
... ___________________fields, but at a large angle to their rotation axes. The rectangle within each planet shows a bar magnet that would produce a similar field. Note that both Uranus’s and Neptune’s are significantly ______________________________________. Magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune may no ...
... ___________________fields, but at a large angle to their rotation axes. The rectangle within each planet shows a bar magnet that would produce a similar field. Note that both Uranus’s and Neptune’s are significantly ______________________________________. Magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune may no ...
American Scientist - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
... constraints (such as the Sun’s brightness and the length of the day) set limits on the overall system. Laskar found that, despite the influence of chaos on the exact locations of the planets, their orbits remain relatively stable for billions of years. That is, whereas the long-term configuration is ...
... constraints (such as the Sun’s brightness and the length of the day) set limits on the overall system. Laskar found that, despite the influence of chaos on the exact locations of the planets, their orbits remain relatively stable for billions of years. That is, whereas the long-term configuration is ...
Document
... • When close to the Sun, solar radiation vaporizes some of the ice material, forming a bluish tail of gas and a white tail of dust; both tails can extend for tens of million of kilometers • Comets are thought to come from the Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system extends from around the orbit of ...
... • When close to the Sun, solar radiation vaporizes some of the ice material, forming a bluish tail of gas and a white tail of dust; both tails can extend for tens of million of kilometers • Comets are thought to come from the Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system extends from around the orbit of ...
Powerpoint
... Characteristics of Near-Earth Objects Asteroids • Size – space pebbles to 940 km in diameter (Ceres) • Travel at ~16 km/s (36,000 mph) • Composed of rock and/or metals − Meteor – asteroids that burn in atmosphere Asteroid 433 Eros ...
... Characteristics of Near-Earth Objects Asteroids • Size – space pebbles to 940 km in diameter (Ceres) • Travel at ~16 km/s (36,000 mph) • Composed of rock and/or metals − Meteor – asteroids that burn in atmosphere Asteroid 433 Eros ...
The jovian moons
... • A single sheet of paper 3 football fields across! • Made of many ‘ringlets’ ...
... • A single sheet of paper 3 football fields across! • Made of many ‘ringlets’ ...
Outer or Jovian Planets - Academic Computer Center
... orbits. Some have orbital periods of decades others have periods of thousands of years. • Comet nuclei are basically “dirty snowballs” since they contain both ice and dust. • The dust that comets leave behind in their orbital path sometimes hits the Earth and we ...
... orbits. Some have orbital periods of decades others have periods of thousands of years. • Comet nuclei are basically “dirty snowballs” since they contain both ice and dust. • The dust that comets leave behind in their orbital path sometimes hits the Earth and we ...
Solar System Debris
... have a second belt, now called the Kuiper belt: – Support for this comes from the detection of about 600 small, presumably icy, bodies orbiting near and beyond Pluto (first object discovered was 1992QB1). – Extent of belt is unknown, but statistical analysis indicates that the Kuiper belt may have a ...
... have a second belt, now called the Kuiper belt: – Support for this comes from the detection of about 600 small, presumably icy, bodies orbiting near and beyond Pluto (first object discovered was 1992QB1). – Extent of belt is unknown, but statistical analysis indicates that the Kuiper belt may have a ...
A Geometer`s Sketchpad Solar System
... Check: The orbits should not move: just the planets should go moving around their orbits. If the orbits start to wiggle around as well, you probably had them selected as well as the planets. To repair this, UNDO (CTRL+Z) until the animation button disappears, then de-select everything. Now select ju ...
... Check: The orbits should not move: just the planets should go moving around their orbits. If the orbits start to wiggle around as well, you probably had them selected as well as the planets. To repair this, UNDO (CTRL+Z) until the animation button disappears, then de-select everything. Now select ju ...
The Inner Planets
... their hydrogen and helium floated away into space. The Sun and the massive outer planets had enough gravity to keep hydrogen and helium from drifting away. All of the outer planets have numerous moons. They all also have planetary rings, composed of dust and other small particles that encircle the ...
... their hydrogen and helium floated away into space. The Sun and the massive outer planets had enough gravity to keep hydrogen and helium from drifting away. All of the outer planets have numerous moons. They all also have planetary rings, composed of dust and other small particles that encircle the ...
Scattered disc
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The scattered disc (or scattered disk) is a distant region of the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy minor planets, a subset of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects. The scattered-disc objects (SDOs) have orbital eccentricities ranging as high as 0.8, inclinations as high as 40°, and perihelia greater than 30 astronomical units (4.5×109 km; 2.8×109 mi). These extreme orbits are thought to be the result of gravitational ""scattering"" by the gas giants, and the objects continue to be subject to perturbation by the planet Neptune.Although the closest scattered-disc objects approach the Sun at about 30–35 AU, their orbits can extend well beyond 100 AU. This makes scattered objects among the most distant and coldest objects in the Solar System. The innermost portion of the scattered disc overlaps with a torus-shaped region of orbiting objects traditionally called the Kuiper belt, but its outer limits reach much farther away from the Sun and farther above and below the ecliptic than the Kuiper belt proper.Because of its unstable nature, astronomers now consider the scattered disc to be the place of origin for most periodic comets in the Solar System, with the centaurs, a population of icy bodies between Jupiter and Neptune, being the intermediate stage in an object's migration from the disc to the inner Solar System. Eventually, perturbations from the giant planets send such objects towards the Sun, transforming them into periodic comets. Many Oort cloud objects are also thought to have originated in the scattered disc. Detached objects are not sharply distinct from scattered disc objects, and some such as Sedna have sometimes been considered to be included in this group.