Chapter 4: The Solar System
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Chapter 4: The Solar System
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Early astronomers knew about the Moon, stars, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, comets, and meteors.
Now known: Solar system has 166 moons, one star, eight planets (added Uranus and Neptune), asteroids, comets, meteoroids, dwarf planets, and Kuiper Belt objects.
4.1 An Inventory of the Solar System
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4.1 An Inventory of the Solar System
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• Distance from Sun known by Kepler’s laws.• Orbital period can be observed.• Radius known from angular size.• Masses known from Newton’s laws.• Rotation period known from observations.• Density can be calculated knowing radius and mass.
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All orbits except Mercury’s are close to the same plane.
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Terrestrial planets:
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
Jovian planets:
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
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Differences between the terrestrial planets:• Atmospheres and surface conditions are very dissimilar.• Only Earth has oxygen in atmosphere and liquid water on surface.• Earth and Mars rotate at about the same rate; Venus and Mercury are much slower, and Venus rotates in the opposite direction.• Earth and Mars have moons; Mercury and Venus don’t.• Earth and Mercury have magnetic fields; Venus and Mars don’t.
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4.2 Interplanetary Matter
The inner solar system, showing the asteroid belt, Earth-crossing asteroids, and Trojan asteroids
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Large picture: The path of Icarus, an Earth-crossing asteroidInset: Ceres, the largest asteroid
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Asteroids and meteoroids have rocky composition; asteroids are bigger.
(above) Asteroid Ida with its moon, Dactyl
(below) Asteroid Gaspra
(above) Asteroid Mathilde
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Discovery 4-1: What Killed the Dinosaurs?
The larger an impact is, the less often we expect it to occur.
The dinosaurs may have been killed by the impact of a large meteor or small asteroid.
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Asteroid Eros
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Comets are icy, with some rocky parts.The basic components of a comet
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The solar wind means the ion tail always points away from the Sun. The dust tail also tends to point away from the Sun, but the dust particles are more massive and lag somewhat, forming a curved tail.
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The internal structure of the cometary nucleus
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The size, shape, and orientation of cometary orbits depend on their location. Oort cloud comets rarely enter the inner solar system.
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Meteor showers are associated with comets – they are the debris left over when a comet breaks up.
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The impact of a large meteor can create a significant crater.The Barringer meteor crater in Arizona
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The Manicouagan reservoir in Quebec
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A space telescope discovers a series of planets with the following characteristics moving around a star which resembles our sun;-- spherical, solid surfaces, mean densities about 4 times that of water, radii about 4000 km and low density atmospheres. What would these planets be classified as, in comparison to our solar system?
A. Asteroids.B. Jovian planets.C. Cometary nuclei.D. Terrestrial planets.
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In which object or group of objects in the planetary system is the rotation rate of the individuals around their own axes highest?
A. The Earth's moon.B. The terrestrial planets.C. The sun.D. The Jovian planets
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Which planet in our solar system has the lowest average density?
A. EarthB. UranusC. JupiterD. Saturn
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The planet with the greatest mean density is
A. EarthB. NeptuneC. JupiterD. Mercury
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Nebular contraction:• Cloud of gas and dust contracts due to gravity; conservation of angular momentum means it spins faster and faster as it contracts.
4.3 The Formation of the Solar System
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Condensation theory:• Interstellar dust grains help cool cloud, and act as condensation nuclei.
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The star Beta Pictoris is surrounded by a disk of warm matter, which may indicate planetary formation.
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Conservation of angular momentum says that product of radius and rotation rate must be constant.
Therefore, as a dust cloud collapses, its rate of rotation will increase.
More Precisely 4-1: The Concept of Angular Momentum
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These images show possible planetary systems in the process of formation.
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Temperature in cloud determines where various materials condense out; this determines where rocky planets and gas giants form.
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4.4 Planets Beyond the Solar SystemMany planets have been discovered in other solar systems; this is one that is visible.
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Some planets are discovered through the “wobble” they create in their parent star’s orbit.
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Others are discovered through the periodic dimming of the parent star’s luminosity.
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These are the orbits of many extra-solar planets discovered so far. Most have masses closer to that of Jupiter than that of Earth.
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The most probable process for the formation or acquisition of the planets of the sun is
A. The freezing of immense gas clouds by the cold temperature of space.
B. The break-up of one single large companion body to the sun, by tidal distortion.
C. Capture from outer space by gravity.D. Relatively slow collection of smaller
objects by mutual gravitational attraction and sticking, or accretion.
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The solar system originated
A. about 500 million years ago.B. about 5 billion years ago.C. about 50 billion years ago.D. about 500 billion years ago.
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The most likely formation mechanism for the solar system is thatA. the sun and planets slowly condensed
to their present form from a gas and dust cloud.
B. the solar system was once a galaxy, from which the sun and planets are remnants, after evolution.
C. the sun captured the planets as they drifted through space.
D. planets were spun out of the sun as smaller gas clouds and subsequently condensed.
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An observation which supports the theory of planet formation within a collapsing cloud is
A. direct observation of other planetary systems.
B. the existence of binary stars.C. the existence of black holes.D. the existence of galaxies.
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• Solar system consists of Sun and everything orbiting it.• Asteroids are rocky, and most orbit between orbits of Mars and Jupiter.• Comets are icy, and are believed to have formed early in the solar system’s life.• Major planets orbit Sun in same sense, and all but Venus rotate in that sense as well.• Planetary orbits lie almost in the same plane.
Summary of Chapter 4
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• Four inner planets – terrestrial planets – are rocky, small, and dense.• Four outer planets – Jovian planets – are gaseous and large.• Nebular theory of solar system formation: Cloud of gas and dust gradually collapsed under its own gravity, spinning faster as it shrank.• Condensation theory says dust grains acted as condensation nuclei, beginning formation of larger objects.
Summary of Chapter 4, cont.
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Summary of Chapter 4, cont.• Planets have been discovered in other solar systems.• Most are large and orbit much closer to the Sun than the large planets in our solar system do.