Slide 1
... where most asteroids are found. • The asteroid belt extends about 150 million km between the two planets. • Asteroids might exist here because the massive gravity of Jupiter did not allow a planet to form at this position. • Asteroids in the asteroid belt range in size from tiny to 940 km in diamete ...
... where most asteroids are found. • The asteroid belt extends about 150 million km between the two planets. • Asteroids might exist here because the massive gravity of Jupiter did not allow a planet to form at this position. • Asteroids in the asteroid belt range in size from tiny to 940 km in diamete ...
Kleopatra - OSIRIS
... characters in our solar system, including an asteroid that has its own moon and even one that is shaped like a dog bone! For each letter of the alphabet, we will showcase an asteroid in our solar system and demonstrate its orbit around the Sun. Visit the Galleries page of AsteroidMission.org – home ...
... characters in our solar system, including an asteroid that has its own moon and even one that is shaped like a dog bone! For each letter of the alphabet, we will showcase an asteroid in our solar system and demonstrate its orbit around the Sun. Visit the Galleries page of AsteroidMission.org – home ...
Asteroids and comets
... 6. Explain what the three-fold division of most meteorites into stony, iron, and stony-iron families tells us about the bodies they originated from, and describe what one would look for to recognize a meteorite that had not been significantly modified since its formation from the solar nebula. 1. Th ...
... 6. Explain what the three-fold division of most meteorites into stony, iron, and stony-iron families tells us about the bodies they originated from, and describe what one would look for to recognize a meteorite that had not been significantly modified since its formation from the solar nebula. 1. Th ...
Kuiper Belt
... – Some asteroids have very eccentric orbits & travel close to the Sun. – Others (larger) regularly pass close to Earth & Moon ...
... – Some asteroids have very eccentric orbits & travel close to the Sun. – Others (larger) regularly pass close to Earth & Moon ...
Lecture18
... •A) Comet orbits are mostly circular and in the ecliptic plane, whereas asteroids have elliptical orbits inclined at random to the ecliptic plane •B) Comets never approach closer to the Sun than approximately Jupiter’s orbit, whereas some asteroids approach very close to the Sun •C) Asteroids orbit ...
... •A) Comet orbits are mostly circular and in the ecliptic plane, whereas asteroids have elliptical orbits inclined at random to the ecliptic plane •B) Comets never approach closer to the Sun than approximately Jupiter’s orbit, whereas some asteroids approach very close to the Sun •C) Asteroids orbit ...
Lecture18 - UCSB Physics
... • A) Comet orbits are mostly circular and in the ecliptic plane, whereas asteroids have elliptical orbits inclined at random to the ecliptic plane • B) Comets never approach closer to the Sun than approximately Jupiter’s orbit, whereas some asteroids approach very close to the Sun • C) Asteroids orb ...
... • A) Comet orbits are mostly circular and in the ecliptic plane, whereas asteroids have elliptical orbits inclined at random to the ecliptic plane • B) Comets never approach closer to the Sun than approximately Jupiter’s orbit, whereas some asteroids approach very close to the Sun • C) Asteroids orb ...
asteroids - WordPress.com
... They do not form a true asteroid family, in the sense that they do not descend from a common parent object. The namesake is 153 Hilda, discovered by Johann Palisa in 1875. There are more than 1,100 known Hilda asteroids including unnumbered objects.[1][3] Color brown. ...
... They do not form a true asteroid family, in the sense that they do not descend from a common parent object. The namesake is 153 Hilda, discovered by Johann Palisa in 1875. There are more than 1,100 known Hilda asteroids including unnumbered objects.[1][3] Color brown. ...
Your 2nd midterm …
... Some short-period comets can come from the Oort cloud and have their orbits altered by Jupiter, but most of them are thought to belong to the Kuiper belt located just beyond the orbit of Neptune ...
... Some short-period comets can come from the Oort cloud and have their orbits altered by Jupiter, but most of them are thought to belong to the Kuiper belt located just beyond the orbit of Neptune ...
Remnants of Rock and Ice (Chapter 12) Asteroids (small rocky
... Asteroids (small rocky bodies) and comets (small icy bodies) are leftover planetesimals. Their compositions and orbits reveal a lot about solar system formation. The largest asteroid, Ceres, is around 1000 km in diameter, one-third the diameter of the Moon. The asteroids would only form an object 20 ...
... Asteroids (small rocky bodies) and comets (small icy bodies) are leftover planetesimals. Their compositions and orbits reveal a lot about solar system formation. The largest asteroid, Ceres, is around 1000 km in diameter, one-third the diameter of the Moon. The asteroids would only form an object 20 ...
Asteroids4 Feb Asteroids, Comets, Minor Planets • Understanding composition of solar system
... – 26 known with sizes > 200 km (width of MI). ...
... – 26 known with sizes > 200 km (width of MI). ...
Life in the Universe lab1
... +asteroid+belt,+a+region+between+Mars+and+Jupiter.+The+images+are+helping+astronomers+plan+f or+the+Dawn+spacecraft's+tour+of+these+hefty+asteroids.+Credit:+NASA,+ESA,+J.+Parker+(Southwest +Research+Institute),+L.+McFadden+(University+of+Maryland) Pallas- is the second largest asteroid Vesta- the th ...
... +asteroid+belt,+a+region+between+Mars+and+Jupiter.+The+images+are+helping+astronomers+plan+f or+the+Dawn+spacecraft's+tour+of+these+hefty+asteroids.+Credit:+NASA,+ESA,+J.+Parker+(Southwest +Research+Institute),+L.+McFadden+(University+of+Maryland) Pallas- is the second largest asteroid Vesta- the th ...
Other tenants
... We have already mentioned that the planets with their satellites and rings are not the only bodies that occupy the Solar System. To start with, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, there is the Main Asteroid Belt that is not just a flat disc with rocks of different sizes and shapes as we usually ...
... We have already mentioned that the planets with their satellites and rings are not the only bodies that occupy the Solar System. To start with, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, there is the Main Asteroid Belt that is not just a flat disc with rocks of different sizes and shapes as we usually ...
Space Rocks - American Geosciences Institute
... The four inner planets formed, but Jupiter’s huge gravity caused chaos in the region past Mars. No big planet ever formed there ...
... The four inner planets formed, but Jupiter’s huge gravity caused chaos in the region past Mars. No big planet ever formed there ...
The Asteroid Belt - peterboroughastronomy.com
... and Jupiter. With a bit of imagination there is, only some assembly is required. The problem is the asteroids just can’t get together to form a planet when Jupiter’s incredible gravitational pull keeps tearing them apart. If they could overcome this they would be able to form a planet four times the ...
... and Jupiter. With a bit of imagination there is, only some assembly is required. The problem is the asteroids just can’t get together to form a planet when Jupiter’s incredible gravitational pull keeps tearing them apart. If they could overcome this they would be able to form a planet four times the ...
Observational Astronomy - Lecture 7 Solar System II
... Red and white points are known Kuiper belt objects as of 2010. ...
... Red and white points are known Kuiper belt objects as of 2010. ...
Asteroid Belt
... Asteroids have undergone considerable evolution since their formation. They are mainly the remnants of particles from the formation of the solar system that never became parts of larger bodies. Therefore, most of the asteroid belt consists of relatively small objects compared to the planets, althoug ...
... Asteroids have undergone considerable evolution since their formation. They are mainly the remnants of particles from the formation of the solar system that never became parts of larger bodies. Therefore, most of the asteroid belt consists of relatively small objects compared to the planets, althoug ...
Asteroids
... that 4.6 billion years ago, when our solar system was being formed, a tenth planet tried to form between Mars and Jupiter. However, Jupiter’s gravitational forces were too strong, so the material was unable to form a planet. Even if a planet had formed, it wouldn’t have been anything to write home a ...
... that 4.6 billion years ago, when our solar system was being formed, a tenth planet tried to form between Mars and Jupiter. However, Jupiter’s gravitational forces were too strong, so the material was unable to form a planet. Even if a planet had formed, it wouldn’t have been anything to write home a ...
Real and Scaled Sizes of Dwarf Planets Ceres 930 km Pluto 2,370
... The scale factor is 1 to 10 billion. Every millimeter in this scale model solar system represents 10 billion millimeters in the real solar system! Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid belt is the home of most, but not all, of the rocky asteroids in ...
... The scale factor is 1 to 10 billion. Every millimeter in this scale model solar system represents 10 billion millimeters in the real solar system! Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid belt is the home of most, but not all, of the rocky asteroids in ...
Real and Scaled Sizes of Dwarf Planets Ceres 930 km 0.09 mm
... The scale factor is 1 to 10 billion. Every millimeter in this scale model solar system represents 10 billion millimeters in the real solar system! Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid belt is the home of most, but not all, of the rocky asteroids in ...
... The scale factor is 1 to 10 billion. Every millimeter in this scale model solar system represents 10 billion millimeters in the real solar system! Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The asteroid belt is the home of most, but not all, of the rocky asteroids in ...
ppt
... Irregular (sometimes spherical) lumps of rock and metal that had never formed into planets during the formation of the solar system Several hundred thousand asteroids have been observed in the 10km to 100km size range, there maybe millions more of about 1km in size 26 are larger than 200km, the bigg ...
... Irregular (sometimes spherical) lumps of rock and metal that had never formed into planets during the formation of the solar system Several hundred thousand asteroids have been observed in the 10km to 100km size range, there maybe millions more of about 1km in size 26 are larger than 200km, the bigg ...
Asteroid Belt Bode`s Law It was thought that the sequence of planets
... unto Uranus. Beyond this the relationship breaks down and the sequence is probably a coincidence. However, if the sequence was valid it would predict a planet at 280 million miles from the Sun. The search for such a planet resulted in the discovery of many small objects orbiting the Sun in a belt be ...
... unto Uranus. Beyond this the relationship breaks down and the sequence is probably a coincidence. However, if the sequence was valid it would predict a planet at 280 million miles from the Sun. The search for such a planet resulted in the discovery of many small objects orbiting the Sun in a belt be ...
Minor Bodies of the Solar System
... (provided the period is in Earth years and the semi-major axis in astronomical units) ...
... (provided the period is in Earth years and the semi-major axis in astronomical units) ...
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets. The asteroid belt is also termed the main asteroid belt or main belt to distinguish it from other asteroid populations in the Solar System such as near-Earth asteroids and trojan asteroids. About half the mass of the belt is contained in the four largest asteroids: Ceres, Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea. The total mass of the asteroid belt is approximately 4% that of the Moon, which is significantly less than that of Pluto and roughly twice that of Pluto's moon Charon (whose diameter is 1200 km).Ceres, the asteroid belt's only dwarf planet, is about 950 km in diameter, whereas Vesta, Pallas, and Hygiea have mean diameters of less than 600 km. The remaining bodies range down to the size of a dust particle. The asteroid material is so thinly distributed that numerous unmanned spacecraft have traversed it without incident. Nonetheless, collisions between large asteroids do occur, and these can form an asteroid family whose members have similar orbital characteristics and compositions. Individual asteroids within the asteroid belt are categorized by their spectra, with most falling into three basic groups: carbonaceous (C-type), silicate (S-type), and metal-rich (M-type).The asteroid belt formed from the primordial solar nebula as a group of planetesimals, the smaller precursors of the planets, which in turn formed protoplanets. Between Mars and Jupiter, however, gravitational perturbations from Jupiter imbued the protoplanets with too much orbital energy for them to accrete into a planet. Collisions became too violent, and instead of fusing together, the planetesimals and most of the protoplanets shattered. As a result, 99.9% of the asteroid belt's original mass was lost in the first 100 million years of the Solar System's history. Some fragments eventually found their way into the inner Solar System, leading to meteorite impacts with the inner planets. Asteroid orbits continue to be appreciably perturbed whenever their period of revolution about the Sun forms an orbital resonance with Jupiter. At these orbital distances, a Kirkwood gap occurs as they are swept into other orbits.Classes of small Solar System bodies in other regions are the near-Earth objects, the centaurs, the Kuiper belt objects, the scattered disk objects, the sednoids, and the Oort cloud objects.On 22 January 2014, ESA scientists reported the detection, for the first definitive time, of water vapor on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt. The detection was made by using the far-infrared abilities of the Herschel Space Observatory. The finding was unexpected because comets, not asteroids, are typically considered to ""sprout jets and plumes"". According to one of the scientists, ""The lines are becoming more and more blurred between comets and asteroids.""