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Lesson 8a Moons, Asteroids and Rings Europa • These interactions also keep Europa in a slight elliptical orbit as well. • But since Europa is farther from Jupiter the effect is not as strong as on Io. Europa’s interior Possible volcanic vents on beneath Europa Possible Life? New theory on Europa ice flows • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vAUMS6 VtXo&feature=related Orbits of all of Jupiter’s moons What do you think about the origin of most of Jupiter’s moons? . 1. 2. 3. 4. Co-accretion origin Fission origin Capture origin Giant impact origin 25% 1 25% 25% 2 3 25% 4 What do you think about the origin of most of Jupiter’s moons? Asteroid Belt Lagrangian Points Asteroids Asteroids Eros Ida & Dactyl Dawn mission to Vesta (current) Phobos – Martian Moon Deimos – Martian moon • What is the likely origin of the moons of Mars? . 1. 2. 3. 4. Fission Co-accretion Capture Giant impact 25% 1 25% 25% 2 3 25% 4 Russian probe Phobos-Grunt. • Probe stuck in Earth’s orbit. • Would have landed on Phobos and returned to Earth, soil and rock samples. • If Phobos is chemically similar to Mars, then it could be the Phobos and Demos originated as shot out debris from a Martian impact. • Phobos orbits Mars every 11 hours. • Demos orbits Mars every 30 hours. • Mars rotates on its axis every ~ 25 hours. • In the next 50 million years, Phobos will crash into Mars. Earth and the Moon • Why will Phobos crash into Mars? . 1. Phobos is too close and Mars 33% 33% gravity will pull it in. 2. Phobos is orbiting faster than Mars spins. Mars is slowing it up. 3. Demos is pulling on Phobos causing it to fall into Mars 1 2 33% 3 Effect of sub-synchronous orbit. Phobos is speeding Up Mars rotation, and Mars is slowing up Phobos’s Orbital speed. • What does this 3:1 represent? . 1. Jupiter is 3 times farther from Sun than 25%the 25% 25%the 25% gap is. 2. Jupiter completes 3 orbits for every 1 gap orbit. 3. The gap is 3 times closer to the Sun than Jupiter 4. The gap completes 3 orbits for every 1 of Jupiter’s orbits. 1 2 3 4 Keplers 3rd law relates period to semi-major axis • Kirkwood gap with resonance 3:1. • Semi-major axis is a = 2.5 AU. P2 = a3 P = (2.53)0.5 = 3.95 years Jupiter has a = 5.2 AU. PJ = (5.23)0.5 = 11.85 years. 11.85/3.95 = 3 This is the 3:1 resonance Eris Kuiper belt and scattered disk The Planets • Currently there is little evidence that the planets in the Solar System are in any type of resonance orbit. • Example: • Jupiter orbital period = 11.86 years • Saturn orbital period = 29.46 years 29.46/11.86 = 2.48 Close to a 2:5 resonance • But this wasn’t always the case. • It has been shown with theoretical modeling that Saturn likely formed much closer to Jupiter. • Also Uranus and Neptune were within 15 AU of the Sun originally. Now they are at 19 AU and 30 AU. • Some models suggest that Neptune actually formed closer to the Sun than Uranus. • When Jupiter and Saturn formed they were very close to 1:2 resonance orbit The giant planets and Kuiper belt objects. • Jupiter and Saturn exchanged angular momentum and finally Saturn reached a resonance 1:2 orbit with Jupiter. • When this happened in a very short period of time the combined effects of the two enormous planets was to move Uranus and Neptune outward. • Their motion also effect Saturn, like-wise moved outward. A model of planetary migration Other models of this migration The effect of this migration • Jupiter moved inward in its orbit. It is thought that this is what allowed it to capture some of its moons and as it moved into the asteroid belt, it picked up the Trojan asteroids in its lagrange points. • Neptune moved rapidly outward. Its elliptical orbit settled down to circular by exchanging angular momentum with the Kuiper objects. New evidence published this year • Gravity models using just the four gas giant planets is not able to produce the orbits we see today. • Early on in the solar system it is thought that this extra planet was sped up by interactions and flung out of the solar system. • Many of the Kuiper objects were moved outward onto highly eccentric orbits. Some inhabited a large region around the Solar System called the Oort cloud. These are seen today as comets when they near the Sun. • Others were sent down to the center of the solar system where they collided with the Sun and the terrestrial planets. • This time is called the “Late Heavy Bombardment” around 4 billion years ago. • It is thought that the large impacts that made the Lunar Maria came from this event. • Also Hellas crater on Mars. • Also the axis tilts of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune probably occurred because of this migration. • It is thought that the large impacts that made the Lunar Maria came from this event. • Also Hellas crater on Mars. • Also the axis tilts of Saturn, Uranus and Neptune probably occurred because of this migration • After the Jupiter-Saturn 1:2 resonance event, the Solar System settled into the configuration seen today. New evidence published in 2011 • Gravity models using just the four gas giant planets are not able to produce the orbits we see today. • By adding an additional Neptune-size planet the orbits of the current gas-giants are correct. • Early on in the solar system it is thought that this extra planet was sped up by interactions and flung out of the solar system.