Outer Planet review Much of what we know about the outer planets
... 4) How does the composition of outer planets differ from that of the inner planets? 5) What are the names of Jupiter’s (large) moons? 6) What are incomplete planetary rings, similar to those around Neptune, called? 7) Where does Jupiter’s name come from? 8) Who first proposed the presence of Neptune ...
... 4) How does the composition of outer planets differ from that of the inner planets? 5) What are the names of Jupiter’s (large) moons? 6) What are incomplete planetary rings, similar to those around Neptune, called? 7) Where does Jupiter’s name come from? 8) Who first proposed the presence of Neptune ...
Overview Presentation on Pluto and Occultations
... (1) A "planet"1 is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit. (2) A "dwarf planet" is a cel ...
... (1) A "planet"1 is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit. (2) A "dwarf planet" is a cel ...
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 ...
The Kuiper Belt - UCLA - Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences
... that have ever been formed. So the Kuiper belt seems to be a good candidate for a cometary storehouse. And the mechanics of the transfer out of storage is now well understood. Computer simulations have shown that Neptune’s gravity slowly erodes the inner edge of the Kuiper belt (the region within 40 ...
... that have ever been formed. So the Kuiper belt seems to be a good candidate for a cometary storehouse. And the mechanics of the transfer out of storage is now well understood. Computer simulations have shown that Neptune’s gravity slowly erodes the inner edge of the Kuiper belt (the region within 40 ...
The Universe
... Always considered “different” Largest moon to planet ratio Most inclined orbit - highly elliptical Percival Lowell searched for “Planet X” to explain orbital perturbations of Uranus and Neptune Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at age 24 Originally thought to be Mars-sized - actually smaller t ...
... Always considered “different” Largest moon to planet ratio Most inclined orbit - highly elliptical Percival Lowell searched for “Planet X” to explain orbital perturbations of Uranus and Neptune Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at age 24 Originally thought to be Mars-sized - actually smaller t ...
neptune!!!
... temperature of -353 you will need a bunch of jackets Neptune is one of the “Gas Giants” so that means Neptune is made out of Gases It has 13 moons A day in Neptune is 16.11 Earth hours ...
... temperature of -353 you will need a bunch of jackets Neptune is one of the “Gas Giants” so that means Neptune is made out of Gases It has 13 moons A day in Neptune is 16.11 Earth hours ...
Eris - Rob Walrecht
... object was named Eris. Eris, Pluto and the asteroid Ceres were the first official dwarf planets. Makemake and Haumea were added to the class in 2008. There will probably be more soon, for an object in orbit around the Sun and at least 500 km in diameter easily meets the conditions. We already know s ...
... object was named Eris. Eris, Pluto and the asteroid Ceres were the first official dwarf planets. Makemake and Haumea were added to the class in 2008. There will probably be more soon, for an object in orbit around the Sun and at least 500 km in diameter easily meets the conditions. We already know s ...
Some additional information on Dwarf Planets
... mass was much smaller than the initial estimations.[9] It was roughly one-twentieth the mass of Mercury, which made Pluto by far the smallest planet. Although it was still more than ten times as massive as the largest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres, it was one-fifth that of Earth's Moon.[10] Fur ...
... mass was much smaller than the initial estimations.[9] It was roughly one-twentieth the mass of Mercury, which made Pluto by far the smallest planet. Although it was still more than ten times as massive as the largest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres, it was one-fifth that of Earth's Moon.[10] Fur ...
Minor Objects in the Solar System
... o The asteroid belt was created when the Solar System was created o Jupiter’s gravity prevented a bunch of rocks from getting together to form a planet which is now the asteroid belt o There are some asteroids that are freely floating in space o An asteroid hitting the Earth would cause an extinctio ...
... o The asteroid belt was created when the Solar System was created o Jupiter’s gravity prevented a bunch of rocks from getting together to form a planet which is now the asteroid belt o There are some asteroids that are freely floating in space o An asteroid hitting the Earth would cause an extinctio ...
Toilet Paper Solar System
... between the first and second sheet of toilet paper. This is approximately (to scale) the size of the Sun. The other objects in our solar system are too small to draw on this scale; we will use large X's to represent their placement. 3 Carefully write "SUN" near the dot. 4 Using the perforations betw ...
... between the first and second sheet of toilet paper. This is approximately (to scale) the size of the Sun. The other objects in our solar system are too small to draw on this scale; we will use large X's to represent their placement. 3 Carefully write "SUN" near the dot. 4 Using the perforations betw ...
Whipple: Exploring the Solar System Beyond Neptune Using a
... about the numbers and sizes of objects in the outer Solar System, as well as crude estimates of distances. Detailed orbital information will not typically be available. Our understanding of the Solar System is based on the tight connection between theory, modeling, and observation. There remains, ho ...
... about the numbers and sizes of objects in the outer Solar System, as well as crude estimates of distances. Detailed orbital information will not typically be available. Our understanding of the Solar System is based on the tight connection between theory, modeling, and observation. There remains, ho ...
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... An asteroid about the size of a mountain struck earth 65 million years ago. As a result, there were catastrophic changes to the Earth’s atmosphere. Some scientists think these changes were responsible for global mass extinction of thousands of species, including the dinssaurs. There are many impact ...
... An asteroid about the size of a mountain struck earth 65 million years ago. As a result, there were catastrophic changes to the Earth’s atmosphere. Some scientists think these changes were responsible for global mass extinction of thousands of species, including the dinssaurs. There are many impact ...
Kuiper Mission Team Presentation
... Disc-shaped region of icy bodies Has 3 dwarf planets (Pluto) ...
... Disc-shaped region of icy bodies Has 3 dwarf planets (Pluto) ...
Document
... generally in plane of Solar System exposed to solar heating many times takes more than 200 years to complete orbit often pristine materials from early Solar System can have very long, bright tails ...
... generally in plane of Solar System exposed to solar heating many times takes more than 200 years to complete orbit often pristine materials from early Solar System can have very long, bright tails ...
Comet
... "For the first time, we have a direct handle on the population of comets in this outer region. The solar system just got a lot more interesting," Cochran says. "We now know where these short-period comets formed, and we have a context for their role in the solar system's evolution." The existence of ...
... "For the first time, we have a direct handle on the population of comets in this outer region. The solar system just got a lot more interesting," Cochran says. "We now know where these short-period comets formed, and we have a context for their role in the solar system's evolution." The existence of ...
A Brief History of Planetary Science
... system is made up of many small icy bodies Kuiper Belt extends from 30-500 AU formed from left over planetesimals at the edge of the solar system ...
... system is made up of many small icy bodies Kuiper Belt extends from 30-500 AU formed from left over planetesimals at the edge of the solar system ...
23 4 Minor Members of the Solar System
... 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 accounted for by the solar wind and radiat ...
... 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 accounted for by the solar wind and radiat ...
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. ...
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... material smaller in size & mass compared to the planets – Originally called “planets”, now called “Minor planets” or ...
... material smaller in size & mass compared to the planets – Originally called “planets”, now called “Minor planets” or ...
the outer planets - J. Seguin Science
... Uranus, and Neptune) atmospheres consist mainly of the gases ______________ and ____________. For this reason, they are called the gas ____________. The gas giants appear to lack _________ surfaces, however, as the gases become more dense, eventually becoming ________ and __________. The outermost p ...
... Uranus, and Neptune) atmospheres consist mainly of the gases ______________ and ____________. For this reason, they are called the gas ____________. The gas giants appear to lack _________ surfaces, however, as the gases become more dense, eventually becoming ________ and __________. The outermost p ...
Our Solar System
... Planetary Motion • Venus and Mercury stay near the Sun and can only be seen in the early morning or early evening. • Mars, Jupiter and Saturn move westward along with the fixed stars due to Earth’s rotation. • Retrograde motion happens when Earth catches up with and passes an outer planet in its or ...
... Planetary Motion • Venus and Mercury stay near the Sun and can only be seen in the early morning or early evening. • Mars, Jupiter and Saturn move westward along with the fixed stars due to Earth’s rotation. • Retrograde motion happens when Earth catches up with and passes an outer planet in its or ...
Page 598 - ClassZone
... a diameter of about 1200 kilometers. Given their similarity in mass, some scientists consider Pluto and Charon to be a double planet, rather than a planet-moon system. Pluto is so far away from Earth—an average of 39.5 AUs from the sun— that it was not discovered until 1930. Its surface temperature ...
... a diameter of about 1200 kilometers. Given their similarity in mass, some scientists consider Pluto and Charon to be a double planet, rather than a planet-moon system. Pluto is so far away from Earth—an average of 39.5 AUs from the sun— that it was not discovered until 1930. Its surface temperature ...
The Outer Solar System
... are violent wind storms that circle around Jupiter. The most famous storm is called the Great Red Spot. It has been churning for more than four hundred years and scientists don’t think it will be slowing down any time soon. Jupiter has its own system of moons. At last count Jupiter has sixty-three k ...
... are violent wind storms that circle around Jupiter. The most famous storm is called the Great Red Spot. It has been churning for more than four hundred years and scientists don’t think it will be slowing down any time soon. Jupiter has its own system of moons. At last count Jupiter has sixty-three k ...
Kuiper belt
The Kuiper belt /ˈkaɪpər/ or /'køypǝr/ (as in Dutch), sometimes called the Edgeworth–Kuiper belt, is a region of the Solar System beyond the planets, extending from the orbit of Neptune (at 30 AU) to approximately 50 AU from the Sun. It is similar to the asteroid belt, but it is far larger—20 times as wide and 20 to 200 times as massive. Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of small bodies, or remnants from the Solar System's formation. Although many asteroids are composed primarily of rock and metal, most Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (termed ""ices""), such as methane, ammonia and water. The Kuiper belt is home to three officially recognized dwarf planets: Pluto, Haumea, and Makemake. Some of the Solar System's moons, such as Neptune's Triton and Saturn's Phoebe, are also thought to have originated in the region.The Kuiper belt was named after Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper, though he did not actually predict its existence. In 1992, 1992 QB1 was discovered, the first Kuiper belt object (KBO) since Pluto. Since its discovery, the number of known KBOs has increased to over a thousand, and more than 100,000 KBOs over 100 km (62 mi) in diameter are thought to exist. The Kuiper belt was initially thought to be the main repository for periodic comets, those with orbits lasting less than 200 years. However, studies since the mid-1990s have shown that the belt is dynamically stable, and that comets' true place of origin is the scattered disc, a dynamically active zone created by the outward motion of Neptune 4.5 billion years ago; scattered disc objects such as Eris have extremely eccentric orbits that take them as far as 100 AU from the Sun.The Kuiper belt should not be confused with the hypothesized Oort cloud, which is a thousand times more distant and is not flat. The objects within the Kuiper belt, together with the members of the scattered disc and any potential Hills cloud or Oort cloud objects, are collectively referred to as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs).Pluto is likely the largest and most-massive member of the Kuiper belt and the largest and the second-most-massive known TNO, surpassed only by Eris in the scattered disc. Originally considered a planet, Pluto's status as part of the Kuiper belt caused it to be reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. It is compositionally similar to many other objects of the Kuiper belt, and its orbital period is characteristic of a class of KBOs, known as ""plutinos"", that share the same 2:3 resonance with Neptune.