Lecture 08
... Pluto and Other Kuiper Belt Objects • Kuiper Belt objects are basically icy bodies that are the same as comets. • Most comets and asteroids are not spherical. • Only asteroids and larger than about 500km in diameter are spherical. • For these large objects their own gravity is strong enough to make ...
... Pluto and Other Kuiper Belt Objects • Kuiper Belt objects are basically icy bodies that are the same as comets. • Most comets and asteroids are not spherical. • Only asteroids and larger than about 500km in diameter are spherical. • For these large objects their own gravity is strong enough to make ...
10696 the outer solar system: neptune and uranus
... The AlMS Teaching Module (ATM) provides you with a video program correlated to your classroom curriculum, instructions and guidelines for use, plus a comprehensive teaching program containing a wide range of activities and ideas for interaction between all content areas. Our authors, educators, and ...
... The AlMS Teaching Module (ATM) provides you with a video program correlated to your classroom curriculum, instructions and guidelines for use, plus a comprehensive teaching program containing a wide range of activities and ideas for interaction between all content areas. Our authors, educators, and ...
PPT
... – All 5 must be securely bound together, including ones already graded – Late portfolios will lose credit ...
... – All 5 must be securely bound together, including ones already graded – Late portfolios will lose credit ...
Detection of water ice on Nereid
... Goldreich et al. (1989), however, have suggested that Nereid could have formed as a regular satellite of Neptune, but then the capture of Triton and its subsequent orbital circularization could have moved Nereid from an originally regular orbit to its current irregular orbit. Little evidence exists ...
... Goldreich et al. (1989), however, have suggested that Nereid could have formed as a regular satellite of Neptune, but then the capture of Triton and its subsequent orbital circularization could have moved Nereid from an originally regular orbit to its current irregular orbit. Little evidence exists ...
ppt
... Charon must have formed as a result of a large impact on Pluto. The two smaller moons may also have resulted from the same impact. The impactor had a mass between 0.2 and 1 MP. Pluto and Charon have rotation periods exactly the same as their orbital period. In order to have this fully locked synchro ...
... Charon must have formed as a result of a large impact on Pluto. The two smaller moons may also have resulted from the same impact. The impactor had a mass between 0.2 and 1 MP. Pluto and Charon have rotation periods exactly the same as their orbital period. In order to have this fully locked synchro ...
PowerPoint
... • Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are crowded close to the Sun. • The four large planets– Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune– are widely spaced • Pluto tends to be in unusual space • Mostly circular orbits, except Mercury and Pluto • Orbits all lie in a plane • Size varies considerably– smallest g ...
... • Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are crowded close to the Sun. • The four large planets– Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune– are widely spaced • Pluto tends to be in unusual space • Mostly circular orbits, except Mercury and Pluto • Orbits all lie in a plane • Size varies considerably– smallest g ...
Outline Question of Scale Planets Dance
... Inner Planets: Venus • 0.72 AU from Sun • Similar in size and mass to Earth. • Thick clouds make it the hottest planet. • Often called the morning star or the evening star. 3rd brightest object in the ...
... Inner Planets: Venus • 0.72 AU from Sun • Similar in size and mass to Earth. • Thick clouds make it the hottest planet. • Often called the morning star or the evening star. 3rd brightest object in the ...
Uranus Neptune Pluto
... Red Spot on Jupiter, but not long-lived. White cloud features of methane ice crystals ...
... Red Spot on Jupiter, but not long-lived. White cloud features of methane ice crystals ...
Project GLAD Adapted from Santa Ana Unified School District by
... Literacy Awards: Insert pictures to go with information An astronomer is a person who studies stars, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and other heavenly bodies. What tools do you think an astronomer would use? Write or sketch on the back. Orbit is the path of an object around another such as the ...
... Literacy Awards: Insert pictures to go with information An astronomer is a person who studies stars, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and other heavenly bodies. What tools do you think an astronomer would use? Write or sketch on the back. Orbit is the path of an object around another such as the ...
Document
... •2) the number of TNOs migrating inside solar system could be smaller by a factor of several than it was earlier considered, •3) it is more probable that most of 1-km former TNOs that had got NEO orbits disintegrated into mini-comets and dust during a smaller part of their dynamical lifetimes if the ...
... •2) the number of TNOs migrating inside solar system could be smaller by a factor of several than it was earlier considered, •3) it is more probable that most of 1-km former TNOs that had got NEO orbits disintegrated into mini-comets and dust during a smaller part of their dynamical lifetimes if the ...
satellites of uranus during the planetary migration - mtc-m16d:80
... Basically we use Gomes’ code ( [2]). Initially we ran several examples of migration, and we selected five cases which successfully reproduced the current solar system. A naive way to investigate the dynamics of the satellites during the migration is to add some target satellites to a planet of a suc ...
... Basically we use Gomes’ code ( [2]). Initially we ran several examples of migration, and we selected five cases which successfully reproduced the current solar system. A naive way to investigate the dynamics of the satellites during the migration is to add some target satellites to a planet of a suc ...
Document
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... – Due Thursday, April 29, because of possible TAA strike • Put in box outside 6522 Sterling ...
Jovian Rings
... – Due Thursday, April 29, because of possible TAA strike • Put in box outside 6522 Sterling ...
... – Due Thursday, April 29, because of possible TAA strike • Put in box outside 6522 Sterling ...
Article PDF - IOPscience
... close to 70 K? The topography of Methone and Pallene are well below what one would expect based on extrapolations from small asteroids like Steins and Itokawa (Thomas et al. 2013), and so it does appear that small objects in orbit around Saturn are weaker than asteroids. Unfortunately, there are no ...
... close to 70 K? The topography of Methone and Pallene are well below what one would expect based on extrapolations from small asteroids like Steins and Itokawa (Thomas et al. 2013), and so it does appear that small objects in orbit around Saturn are weaker than asteroids. Unfortunately, there are no ...
Interpreting the Densities of the Kuiper Belt`s Dwarf Planets
... smaller counterparts. Many of these objects have moons, which suggests that collisions may have played a role in modifying their compositions. We show that the dwarf planets fall into two categories when analysed by their mean densities and satellite-toprimary size ratio. Systems with large moons, s ...
... smaller counterparts. Many of these objects have moons, which suggests that collisions may have played a role in modifying their compositions. We show that the dwarf planets fall into two categories when analysed by their mean densities and satellite-toprimary size ratio. Systems with large moons, s ...
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 ...
Solar System Quiz
... ____ 10. A region of the solar system just beyond Neptune’s orbit, which contains small bodies made mostly of ice, is called a. the Kuiper belt. c. an asteroid belt. b. the outer atmosphere. d. Quasar. ____ 11. Which of the following planets is similar to Uranus in terms of its size and mass? a. Pl ...
... ____ 10. A region of the solar system just beyond Neptune’s orbit, which contains small bodies made mostly of ice, is called a. the Kuiper belt. c. an asteroid belt. b. the outer atmosphere. d. Quasar. ____ 11. Which of the following planets is similar to Uranus in terms of its size and mass? a. Pl ...
File - Mrs. Phillips` Physical Science Webpage
... • Calculations show that a composition of only hydrogen and helium should result in an even greater disparity than that….the core is indicated to be as much as 10x the mass of Earth. • Actual composition is obviously unknown but theorized to be composed of similar materials to the terrestrials – mol ...
... • Calculations show that a composition of only hydrogen and helium should result in an even greater disparity than that….the core is indicated to be as much as 10x the mass of Earth. • Actual composition is obviously unknown but theorized to be composed of similar materials to the terrestrials – mol ...
Name: ____ Date: __________ Period: ________ Pluto Files (PBS
... In 1992, other objects around near Pluto were found. They are known as The Kuiper Belt objects. They have wide orbits around the Sun. They are thought to be left over pieces of the solar system from 4 billion years ago. They were pushed far out and put into a deep freeze. Is Pluto a planet or a Kui ...
... In 1992, other objects around near Pluto were found. They are known as The Kuiper Belt objects. They have wide orbits around the Sun. They are thought to be left over pieces of the solar system from 4 billion years ago. They were pushed far out and put into a deep freeze. Is Pluto a planet or a Kui ...
Pluto and the Dwarfs - Rappahannock Astronomy Club
... 1851: Beginning of discoveries of many more bodies between Mars and Jupiter. Neptune clearly shares more characteristics with the classical planets than do Ceres and company. The 8 large planets are clearly a different category than the small bodies found between Mars and Jupiter. Herschel had sugge ...
... 1851: Beginning of discoveries of many more bodies between Mars and Jupiter. Neptune clearly shares more characteristics with the classical planets than do Ceres and company. The 8 large planets are clearly a different category than the small bodies found between Mars and Jupiter. Herschel had sugge ...
Chapter 9 Remnants of Rock and Ice
... inner solar system accreted into • Most meteorites are pieces of one of the planets. asteroids. Primitive meteorites are essentially unchanged since the birth of the solar system. Processed meteorites are fragments of larger asteroids ...
... inner solar system accreted into • Most meteorites are pieces of one of the planets. asteroids. Primitive meteorites are essentially unchanged since the birth of the solar system. Processed meteorites are fragments of larger asteroids ...
Why are dense planetary rings only found between 8 and 20 AU?
... Objects, Main Belt Asteroids or Kuiper Belt Objects, despite numerous radar observations, spacecraft encounters and high-quality stellar occultations that could have revealed such features. Of course, the lack of dense, complete rings around Jupiter and Neptune could simply reflect the diverse histo ...
... Objects, Main Belt Asteroids or Kuiper Belt Objects, despite numerous radar observations, spacecraft encounters and high-quality stellar occultations that could have revealed such features. Of course, the lack of dense, complete rings around Jupiter and Neptune could simply reflect the diverse histo ...
Evolution of Comets Into Asteroids - SwRI Boulder
... large heliocentric distances when they are presumably inactive have had considerable success, e.g., Lowry 2001, but are necessarily difficult to perform and interpret.) Finally, our understanding of comets and cometary processes is still in a primitive state, and has yet to benefit from the intense ...
... large heliocentric distances when they are presumably inactive have had considerable success, e.g., Lowry 2001, but are necessarily difficult to perform and interpret.) Finally, our understanding of comets and cometary processes is still in a primitive state, and has yet to benefit from the intense ...
Pluto
... • Pluto’s orbit is about 5,913,520,000 km from the sun • Diameter: 2274 km • Atmosphere contains: Nitrogen, Methane, and Carbon ...
... • Pluto’s orbit is about 5,913,520,000 km from the sun • Diameter: 2274 km • Atmosphere contains: Nitrogen, Methane, and Carbon ...
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.