Theme 10.1 -- Leftovers: Comets
... hair.” In other words, a comet looks like a star with long tendrils of hair dangling from it, as is clear in this picture. Not surprisingly, comets have only recently become understood physically. For thousands of years they were seen in a variety of ways. Aristotle, for one, believed that they were ...
... hair.” In other words, a comet looks like a star with long tendrils of hair dangling from it, as is clear in this picture. Not surprisingly, comets have only recently become understood physically. For thousands of years they were seen in a variety of ways. Aristotle, for one, believed that they were ...
08_moons, rings, and plutoids
... • From our parochial point of view as biological entities, however, H2O is most interesting in its liquid form, which is essential for the maintenance of life on Earth. • If life exists elsewhere, the best places to look for it are those with liquid water. Compared with ice and water vapor, liquid ...
... • From our parochial point of view as biological entities, however, H2O is most interesting in its liquid form, which is essential for the maintenance of life on Earth. • If life exists elsewhere, the best places to look for it are those with liquid water. Compared with ice and water vapor, liquid ...
Lecture 24: Saturn The Solar System Saturn`s Rings
... •Because Saturn has a lower surface gravity at the cloud level, it’s cloud deck is thicker (200 km) than Jupiter’s (80 km) •This allows us to see the colorful, underlying layers more easily in Jupiter’s atmosphere •The temperature at the cloud tops on Saturn is 97 K •The predicted equilibrium temper ...
... •Because Saturn has a lower surface gravity at the cloud level, it’s cloud deck is thicker (200 km) than Jupiter’s (80 km) •This allows us to see the colorful, underlying layers more easily in Jupiter’s atmosphere •The temperature at the cloud tops on Saturn is 97 K •The predicted equilibrium temper ...
The Everest of Planetary Exploration: New Horizons Explores The
... Atmospheric Structure & Escape ...
... Atmospheric Structure & Escape ...
Chapter9- Asteroids, Comets, Dwarf Planets-pptx
... A. The belt is where all the asteroids happened to form. B. The belt is the remnant of a large terrestrial planet that used to be between Mars and Jupiter. C. The belt is where all the asteroids happened to survive. But WHY didn't they form a little planet? © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. ...
... A. The belt is where all the asteroids happened to form. B. The belt is the remnant of a large terrestrial planet that used to be between Mars and Jupiter. C. The belt is where all the asteroids happened to survive. But WHY didn't they form a little planet? © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. ...
Moons of the Solar System
... © 2007 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Addison-Wesley ...
... © 2007 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Addison-Wesley ...
Planetary Ring Systems
... Planetary ring systems are rings of cosmic dust and other small particles orbiting around planets in extremely thin and flat circular disc-shapes. There are four planets that we know so far with their individual ring systems in our Solar system, and they are: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. All ...
... Planetary ring systems are rings of cosmic dust and other small particles orbiting around planets in extremely thin and flat circular disc-shapes. There are four planets that we know so far with their individual ring systems in our Solar system, and they are: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. All ...
Jovian Planet Systems
... • Rings form from dust created in impacts on moons orbiting the Jovian planets. • There must be a continuous replacement of tiny particles. – The tiny particles that make up the rings are subject to non-gravitational forces (photon pressure, solar wind) that push them out of orbit. • The most likely ...
... • Rings form from dust created in impacts on moons orbiting the Jovian planets. • There must be a continuous replacement of tiny particles. – The tiny particles that make up the rings are subject to non-gravitational forces (photon pressure, solar wind) that push them out of orbit. • The most likely ...
OuR SOlAR SyStem
... spacefaring nations. Other destinations that have begun to move into the focus of attention are the ones that have not been visited for some time or are completely unexplored. These include Mercury, the dwarf planet Ceres and the large asteroid Vesta and, most importantly, Pluto, which lost its plan ...
... spacefaring nations. Other destinations that have begun to move into the focus of attention are the ones that have not been visited for some time or are completely unexplored. These include Mercury, the dwarf planet Ceres and the large asteroid Vesta and, most importantly, Pluto, which lost its plan ...
Jupiter
... • Distinctly larger equatorial than polar diameter – ~ 6.5 % difference for Jupiter – ~ 0.34% difference for Earth ...
... • Distinctly larger equatorial than polar diameter – ~ 6.5 % difference for Jupiter – ~ 0.34% difference for Earth ...
Jupiter
... • Distinctly larger equatorial than polar diameter – ~ 6.5 % difference for Jupiter – ~ 0.34% difference for Earth ...
... • Distinctly larger equatorial than polar diameter – ~ 6.5 % difference for Jupiter – ~ 0.34% difference for Earth ...
Survey of Saturn! - Primary Resources
... Saturn is 8.2713 x 10 (x14). It means you can fit in 764 Earth sized planets in Saturn comfortably. The surface area is 4.27 x 1010 sq km. This is 84 times that of the Earth. Question 9: 1. Saturn has at least 62 moons but we seem to be discovering more all of the time! Some of the moons around Satu ...
... Saturn is 8.2713 x 10 (x14). It means you can fit in 764 Earth sized planets in Saturn comfortably. The surface area is 4.27 x 1010 sq km. This is 84 times that of the Earth. Question 9: 1. Saturn has at least 62 moons but we seem to be discovering more all of the time! Some of the moons around Satu ...
Magnetic Fields of the Outer Planets | SpringerLink
... The existence of the Earth’s magnetic field has been known and used in navigation for at least a millennium, but the realization that other planets similarly possess a magnetic dynamo was not achieved until the middle of the 20th century when radio telescopes discovered electromagnetic emissions fro ...
... The existence of the Earth’s magnetic field has been known and used in navigation for at least a millennium, but the realization that other planets similarly possess a magnetic dynamo was not achieved until the middle of the 20th century when radio telescopes discovered electromagnetic emissions fro ...
Pluto
... The 3 moons of Pluto… Pluto’s biggest moon is known as Charon. It was discovered in 1978 and orbits about 12,000 miles away from the planet. Recently, two other moons were discovered. They were called P1 and P2. Last May, Pluto’s other two satellites (moons) were found by a team of scientist lookin ...
... The 3 moons of Pluto… Pluto’s biggest moon is known as Charon. It was discovered in 1978 and orbits about 12,000 miles away from the planet. Recently, two other moons were discovered. They were called P1 and P2. Last May, Pluto’s other two satellites (moons) were found by a team of scientist lookin ...
solar system debris (chapter 14)
... producing two meteor showers, the Eta Aquarids in May and the Orionids in October. Other comets intersect the Earth’s orbit just once during their trip around the Sun. Annual meteor showers are created when the Earth enters the intersection point, such as the August Perseids produced by debris from ...
... producing two meteor showers, the Eta Aquarids in May and the Orionids in October. Other comets intersect the Earth’s orbit just once during their trip around the Sun. Annual meteor showers are created when the Earth enters the intersection point, such as the August Perseids produced by debris from ...
Lecture 15: Small Solar System Bodies
... • Current asteroid belt has total mass 5 x 10-4 x mass of Earth • Several lines of evidence suggest that the original asteroid belt was 100 - 1000 times more massive • But once Jupiter fully formed (after ~ 10 million years), its gravity strongly perturbed the orbits of almost all the asteroids • ...
... • Current asteroid belt has total mass 5 x 10-4 x mass of Earth • Several lines of evidence suggest that the original asteroid belt was 100 - 1000 times more massive • But once Jupiter fully formed (after ~ 10 million years), its gravity strongly perturbed the orbits of almost all the asteroids • ...
Solar System - Manhasset Schools
... On average, Pluto is more than 3.6 billion miles (5.8 billion kilometers) away from the sun. That is about 40 times as far from the sun as Earth. Pluto orbits the sun in an oval like a racetrack. Because of its oval orbit, Pluto is sometimes closer to the sun than at other times. At its closest poin ...
... On average, Pluto is more than 3.6 billion miles (5.8 billion kilometers) away from the sun. That is about 40 times as far from the sun as Earth. Pluto orbits the sun in an oval like a racetrack. Because of its oval orbit, Pluto is sometimes closer to the sun than at other times. At its closest poin ...
Chapter6- Formation of the Solar System -pptx
... Neptune • Similar to Uranus (except for axis tilt) • Many moons (including Triton) ...
... Neptune • Similar to Uranus (except for axis tilt) • Many moons (including Triton) ...
Pluto Moons exhibit Orbital Angular Momentum Quantization per Mass
... At the QCM equilibrium orbital radius, the√ L of the orbiting body agrees with its Newtonian value µ GMT r. One assumes that after tens of millions of years that the orbiting body is at or near its QCM equilibrium orbital radius r and that the orbital eccentricity is low so that our nearly circular ...
... At the QCM equilibrium orbital radius, the√ L of the orbiting body agrees with its Newtonian value µ GMT r. One assumes that after tens of millions of years that the orbiting body is at or near its QCM equilibrium orbital radius r and that the orbital eccentricity is low so that our nearly circular ...
Nice model
The Nice model (/ˈniːs/) is a scenario for the dynamical evolution of the Solar System. It is named for the location of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, where it was initially developed, in Nice, France. It proposes the migration of the giant planets from an initial compact configuration into their present positions, long after the dissipation of the initial protoplanetary gas disk. In this way, it differs from earlier models of the Solar System's formation. This planetary migration is used in dynamical simulations of the Solar System to explain historical events including the Late Heavy Bombardment of the inner Solar System, the formation of the Oort cloud, and the existence of populations of small Solar System bodies including the Kuiper belt, the Neptune and Jupiter Trojans, and the numerous resonant trans-Neptunian objects dominated by Neptune. Its success at reproducing many of the observed features of the Solar System means that it is widely accepted as the current most realistic model of the Solar System's early evolution, though it is not universally favoured among planetary scientists. One of its limitations is reproducing the outer-system satellites and the Kuiper belt (see below).