The Gas Giants
... crosses its orbit, making it the 9th planet • Has 13 moons, with Triton being the largest ...
... crosses its orbit, making it the 9th planet • Has 13 moons, with Triton being the largest ...
Discovery Uranus visible with naked eye(faint) discovered in 1781
... eclipses + intensity variation to map surface [Fig 13.20,21] determine sizes Pluto’s radius ~ 2300 km, Charon ~ 1200 km => density ~ 2 x water => not just icy materials thin atmosphere icy surface (highly reflective) ...
... eclipses + intensity variation to map surface [Fig 13.20,21] determine sizes Pluto’s radius ~ 2300 km, Charon ~ 1200 km => density ~ 2 x water => not just icy materials thin atmosphere icy surface (highly reflective) ...
What else is in our solar system, besides the sun, the
... colored orange. The four outer planets are blue. Neptune's few known Trojan asteroids are yellow, while Jupiter's are pink. The scattered objects between the Sun and the Kuiper belt are known as centaurs. The scale is in astronomical units. The pronounced gap at the bottom is due to obscuration by t ...
... colored orange. The four outer planets are blue. Neptune's few known Trojan asteroids are yellow, while Jupiter's are pink. The scattered objects between the Sun and the Kuiper belt are known as centaurs. The scale is in astronomical units. The pronounced gap at the bottom is due to obscuration by t ...
1 - Humble ISD
... 33. What do we theorize that comets brought to Earth?Water & Organic compounds 34. What is another name for the objects that exist beyond the orbit of Neptune?TransNeptunian Objects 35. How do dwarf planets differ from regular planets?They have failed to clear their orbits of other objects 36. What ...
... 33. What do we theorize that comets brought to Earth?Water & Organic compounds 34. What is another name for the objects that exist beyond the orbit of Neptune?TransNeptunian Objects 35. How do dwarf planets differ from regular planets?They have failed to clear their orbits of other objects 36. What ...
Neptune - ClassZone
... Uranus is usually one smooth color, but light and dark areas often appear on Neptune. Clouds of methane ice crystals can form high enough in the atmosphere of Neptune to look white. Storm systems can appear in darker shades of blue than the rest of the planet. One storm, seen during the flyby of the ...
... Uranus is usually one smooth color, but light and dark areas often appear on Neptune. Clouds of methane ice crystals can form high enough in the atmosphere of Neptune to look white. Storm systems can appear in darker shades of blue than the rest of the planet. One storm, seen during the flyby of the ...
Outer Planet review Much of what we know about the outer planets
... 2) Jupiter’s giant red spot is actually a large____. 3 times larger than the earth. 3) What minefield lies outside of the orbit of mars and presents a large obstacle for travelling to the outer solar system? 4) How does the composition of outer planets differ from that of the inner planets? 5) What ...
... 2) Jupiter’s giant red spot is actually a large____. 3 times larger than the earth. 3) What minefield lies outside of the orbit of mars and presents a large obstacle for travelling to the outer solar system? 4) How does the composition of outer planets differ from that of the inner planets? 5) What ...
23 4 Minor Members of the Solar System
... solar energy vaporizing frozen gases A small glowing nucleus with a diameter of only a few kilometers can sometimes be detected within a coma. As comets approach the sun, some develop a tail that extends for millions of kilometers. The tail of the comet always points away from the sun, this is accou ...
... solar energy vaporizing frozen gases A small glowing nucleus with a diameter of only a few kilometers can sometimes be detected within a coma. As comets approach the sun, some develop a tail that extends for millions of kilometers. The tail of the comet always points away from the sun, this is accou ...
Answer as a group before you watch the video
... oval) and determines how fast they orbit. Planets __________________ to the Sun move/orbit faster than planets farther from the Sun because the gravitational attraction is greater. When a planet is farther from the Sun, the gravitational attraction between them decreases and the planet moves/orbits ...
... oval) and determines how fast they orbit. Planets __________________ to the Sun move/orbit faster than planets farther from the Sun because the gravitational attraction is greater. When a planet is farther from the Sun, the gravitational attraction between them decreases and the planet moves/orbits ...
Title: "Pluto - New Horizons Mission to the Edge of the Solar System"
... worlds combined - yet, no spacecraft has been sent to a planet in this class. NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, its moon Charon and the Kuiper Belt is provisionally planned for launch in January 2006. After using a flyby of Jupiter in 2007 to get a gravitational kick, the spacecraft will reach P ...
... worlds combined - yet, no spacecraft has been sent to a planet in this class. NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, its moon Charon and the Kuiper Belt is provisionally planned for launch in January 2006. After using a flyby of Jupiter in 2007 to get a gravitational kick, the spacecraft will reach P ...
Bez tytułu slajdu
... resonance with the Neptune. Because the same resonance is also occupied by Pluto the object are named "Plutinos" (little Plutos). Probably, the resonance stabilizes the Plutinos against gravitational perturbations by Neptune. Quaoar is a newly discovered KBO, found in June 2002. The existence of 200 ...
... resonance with the Neptune. Because the same resonance is also occupied by Pluto the object are named "Plutinos" (little Plutos). Probably, the resonance stabilizes the Plutinos against gravitational perturbations by Neptune. Quaoar is a newly discovered KBO, found in June 2002. The existence of 200 ...
Summary of Chapter 8
... planetesimals that formed beyond Neptune’s orbit remain there today as the Kuiper Belt. Icy planetesimals that formed between Jupiter and Neptune were scattered in all directions by Jupiter’s gravity, forming the Oort Cloud. Comets come from the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. Solar system formation end ...
... planetesimals that formed beyond Neptune’s orbit remain there today as the Kuiper Belt. Icy planetesimals that formed between Jupiter and Neptune were scattered in all directions by Jupiter’s gravity, forming the Oort Cloud. Comets come from the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. Solar system formation end ...
Outer Planet review Much of what we know about the outer planets
... 14) Do Uranus and Neptune have rings? Yes, at least partial rings, Called ring arcs. ...
... 14) Do Uranus and Neptune have rings? Yes, at least partial rings, Called ring arcs. ...
Astronomy Review Sheet
... 17. What are the names of the five dwarf planets? Why are they not considered to be “planets”? Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris; they do not meet at least one criteria for being a planet. (Ceres- hasn’t cleared its orbit; Pluto orbits its own moon; Haumea is not round; Makemake and Eris have ...
... 17. What are the names of the five dwarf planets? Why are they not considered to be “planets”? Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris; they do not meet at least one criteria for being a planet. (Ceres- hasn’t cleared its orbit; Pluto orbits its own moon; Haumea is not round; Makemake and Eris have ...
This is the Edge
... Artists conception of Xenia and the Solar System…100AU from Sun. Note the 44 degree tilt of orbit. ...
... Artists conception of Xenia and the Solar System…100AU from Sun. Note the 44 degree tilt of orbit. ...
It`s time for the human race to enter the solar system
... numerous objects in the solar system: asteroids and comets. Asteroids are small rocky bodies that orbit the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, primarily in the asteroid belt. Their orbits generally lie close to the plane of the planetary orbits, although they are usually tilted a bit more. ...
... numerous objects in the solar system: asteroids and comets. Asteroids are small rocky bodies that orbit the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, primarily in the asteroid belt. Their orbits generally lie close to the plane of the planetary orbits, although they are usually tilted a bit more. ...
outer planets
... • In recent years, scientists have discovered hundreds of objects in our solar system beyond Neptune’s orbit. These objects are called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and exist in the Kuiper Belt. • Kuiper Belt a region of the solar system that is just beyond the orbit of Neptune and that contains dw ...
... • In recent years, scientists have discovered hundreds of objects in our solar system beyond Neptune’s orbit. These objects are called trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and exist in the Kuiper Belt. • Kuiper Belt a region of the solar system that is just beyond the orbit of Neptune and that contains dw ...
The Solar System
... Make a study card showing the order of the 8 planets in our solar system, starting from the sun, and the definition of the word gravity. Write a sentence you can use to help you remember the order of the planets. Use “My very educated mother just served us nachos” or make up your own (be sure it wor ...
... Make a study card showing the order of the 8 planets in our solar system, starting from the sun, and the definition of the word gravity. Write a sentence you can use to help you remember the order of the planets. Use “My very educated mother just served us nachos” or make up your own (be sure it wor ...
The Solar system
... • Asteroid: Asteroids are small solar system bodies that orbit the Sun. Made of rock and metal, they can also contain organic compounds. Asteroids are similar to comets but do not have a visible coma (fuzzy outline and tail) like comets do. • Comet: A comet is a relatively small solar system body th ...
... • Asteroid: Asteroids are small solar system bodies that orbit the Sun. Made of rock and metal, they can also contain organic compounds. Asteroids are similar to comets but do not have a visible coma (fuzzy outline and tail) like comets do. • Comet: A comet is a relatively small solar system body th ...
Astronomy 311: Lecture 7 - Resonance • Solar System consists of 8
... • Some planets also involved in long term resonances associated with the precession of the planetary orbits in space. • Orbit-Orbit resonance amongst Jupiter’s satellites: Io, Ganymede and Europa. • Io in a 2:1 resonance with Europa, Europa in a 2:1 resonance with Ganymede: so all three involved in ...
... • Some planets also involved in long term resonances associated with the precession of the planetary orbits in space. • Orbit-Orbit resonance amongst Jupiter’s satellites: Io, Ganymede and Europa. • Io in a 2:1 resonance with Europa, Europa in a 2:1 resonance with Ganymede: so all three involved in ...
Scattered disc
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.