The Planets - Samsi · Venus 0 243 D(Retrograde) Earth 1 23.9 H Mars 2 24.6 H Jupiter 16 9.8 H ......
Transcript of The Planets - Samsi · Venus 0 243 D(Retrograde) Earth 1 23.9 H Mars 2 24.6 H Jupiter 16 9.8 H ......
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AST 303: Chapter 1
The Planets
• The planets, in order from the Sun, are:MercuryVenusEarthMarsJupiterSaturnUranusNeptunePluto
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AST 303: Chapter 2
Characteristics Of The Planets (1)
Mass Radius Density (H2O)Mercury 0.06 0.38 5.46Venus 0.82 0.95 5.27Earth 1.00 1.00 5.52Mars 0.11 0.53 3.91Jupiter 318 11.2 1.25Saturn 95 9.4 0.63Uranus 15 4.0 1.28Neptune 17 3.8 1.72Pluto 0.0022 0.18 2.10
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AST 303: Chapter 3
Characteristics Of The Planets (1)
Mass Radius Density (H2O)Mercury 0.06 0.38 5.46Venus 0.82 0.95 5.27Earth 1.00 1.00 5.52Mars 0.11 0.53 3.91Jupiter 318 11.2 1.25Saturn 95 9.4 0.63Uranus 15 4.0 1.28Neptune 17 3.8 1.72Pluto 0.0022 0.18 2.10
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AST 303: Chapter 4
Sizes of Planets, Compared to Sun
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AST 303: Chapter 5
A Curious Relationship
• The Bode-Titius “law” is a regularity in the spacing of the planets. The“law” is not significant in itself, but the fact that the planets are spacedregularly is significant. Nonetheless, a statistician might find the agreementbetweeen the “law” and the data intriguing
Distance FormulaMercury 0.39 0.4 = ( 0 + 4)/10Venus 0.72 0.7 = ( 3 + 4)/10Earth 1.00 1.0 = ( 6 + 4)/10Mars 1.52 1.6 = ( 12 + 4)/10Asteroids (ave) 2.8 = ( 24 + 4)/10Jupiter 5.20 5.2 = ( 48 + 4)/10Saturn 9.55 10.0 = ( 96 + 4)/10Uranus 19.20 19.6 = (192 + 4)/10Neptune 30.09 38.8 = (384 + 4)/10Pluto 39.5 77.2 = (768 + 4)/10
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AST 303: Chapter 6
Characteristics Of The Planets (2)
Major Satellites RotationMercury 0 59 DVenus 0 243 D(Retrograde)Earth 1 23.9 HMars 2 24.6 HJupiter 16 9.8 HSaturn 18 10.2 HUranus 18 24 H(Retrograde)Neptune 8 18.4 HPluto 1 6 D
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AST 303: Chapter 7
Characteristics Of The Planets (2)
Major Satellites RotationMercury 0 59 DVenus 0 243 D(Retrograde)Earth 1 23.9 HMars 2 24.6 HJupiter 16 9.8 HSaturn 18 10.2 HUranus 18 24 H(Retrograde)Neptune 8 18.4 HPluto 1 6 D
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AST 303: Chapter 8
Terrestrial (Dwarf) Planets
• There are two main groups of planets: The Terrestrial (Dwarf)planets and the Jovian (Giant) planets. The Terrestrial planetsare characterized as follows:• Small, not massive (Earth is biggest)• Dense (about 5 times that of water)• Near Sun; high temperature• Composed of heavy elements: Si, Fe, O, etc.• Thin or nonexistent atmospheres• Few or no satellites
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AST 303: Chapter 9
Terrestrial Planets
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AST 303: Chapter 10
Portrait of Terrestrial Planets and Some Satellites
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AST 303: Chapter 11
Mercury from Space
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AST 303: Chapter 12
Earthbased Views of Venus
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AST 303: Chapter 13
Earthbased Views of Venus
Note atmosphere!
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AST 303: Chapter 14
Venus from Space
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AST 303: Chapter 15
Venus (Radar Topography)
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AST 303: Chapter 16
Venus (Radar Topography)
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AST 303: Chapter 17
Venus Surface (Venera)
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AST 303: Chapter 18
Mars Drawings
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AST 303: Chapter 19
Mars Drawings
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AST 303: Chapter 20
Mars Drawings
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AST 303: Chapter 21
Mars Photos (Earthbased)
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AST 303: Chapter 22
Mars—Seasons
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AST 303: Chapter 23
Map of Mars
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AST 303: Chapter 24
Mars Closeups
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AST 303: Chapter 25
Mars Closeups
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AST 303: Chapter 26
Mars Closeups
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AST 303: Chapter 27
Mars Closeups
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AST 303: Chapter 28
Mars Closeups
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AST 303: Chapter 29
Mars Closeups
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AST 303: Chapter 30
Mars Closeups
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AST 303: Chapter 31
Mars Closeups
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AST 303: Chapter 32
Mars Closeups
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AST 303: Chapter 33
Mars’ Satellites
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AST 303: Chapter 34
Phobos
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AST 303: Chapter 35
Atmospheres of Earth and Venus
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AST 303: Chapter 36
Atmospheres of Earth and Mars
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AST 303: Chapter 37
Minor Planets (Asteroids) —(1)
• Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter are thousands of minorplanets (sometimes called asteroids)
• These are probably the remnants of material that never formedinto a major planet
• They show evidence of having collided and broken up overthe ages
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AST 303: Chapter 38
Portraits of Some Minor Planets
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AST 303: Chapter 39
Minor Planets (Asteroids) —(2)
• There is a group of minor planets (the Trojan asteroids) at thesame distance from the Sun as Jupiter, but leading or lagingby an average 60 degrees:
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AST 303: Chapter 40
Minor Planets (Asteroids) —(2)
• Also, there are gaps—the so-called “Kirkwood gaps”—in theasteroid belt near periods which are simple fractions ofJupiter's period. The density of asteroids in the gaps isdepleted.
Jupiter
Kirkwoodgap atabout1/2 ofJupiter’speriod
Sun
Trojans (Trojan group)
Trojans (Greek group)
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AST 303: Chapter 41
Minor Planet Ida
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AST 303: Chapter 42
Meteorites (1)
• A meteor is a chunk of material (which could be of cometaryor asteroidal origin) that falls into our atmosphere and isheated to a high temperature, vaporizing and forming a streakin the sky. Sometimes the object explodes in a very brightevent known as a fireball or bolide. Most meteors do notreach the ground, but vaporize completely in our atmosphere.The larger ones that do reach the ground are called meteorites.
• Until recently, meteorites were the only objects from outerspace that astronomers could actually touch and analyze.
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AST 303: Chapter 43
Grazing Meteor
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AST 303: Chapter 44
Large Meteorite
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AST 303: Chapter 45
Murchison Carbonaceous Chondrite
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AST 303: Chapter 46
Meteorites (2)
• Meteorites fall into several classes: The main types are stones(similar to silicate rocks on Earth), irons and (a mixture)stony-irons. Among the stones are a class called carbonaceouschondrites that contain significant amounts of carbon andorganic compounds, and are believed to be very primitive.Amino acids-the building blocks of proteins-have beendetected in some carbonaceous chondrites. These amino acidsare clearly of extraterrestrial origin and are not contaminants,because they contain both “handedness” of the molecules,whereas life on Earth consists entirely of the left-handedvariety.
• The irons show evidence of once having been molten. Bypolishing and etching an iron meteorite, you can see largecrystal formations known as Widmanstätten patterns.
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AST 303: Chapter 47
Meteorites (3)
• Finds versus falls: A meteorite fall is when we recover ameterorite that we saw fall so that we knew where to look.
• A find is when we accidentally discover a previouslyunknown meteorite.
• Over 2/3 of the finds are irons, but over 90% of the falls arestones.• Selection effect…
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AST 303: Chapter 48
Craters
• When a very large meteorite hits the earth, it can cause a largecrater. These craters are also called “astroblemes.” Barringercrater in Arizona is the best-known of them, but it is only onemile in diameter and is far from being the largest.
• Satellite photographs of the Earth have led to the discovery ofmany very ancient craters, previously unknown. The largest,in South America, is about 120 km in diameter.
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AST 303: Chapter 49
Barringer Crater
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AST 303: Chapter 50
Old Meteor Crater
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AST 303: Chapter 51
Minor Planets (Asteroids) —(3)
• Some minor planets have orbits that are very different fromthe ones we have discussed. There are minor planets such asEros that come quite close to the Earth; and others that havehighly elliptical orbits very unlike the nearly circular orbits ofthe main-belt asteroids, but rather similar to the orbits of somecomets.
• It is tempting to speculate that the asteroids with highlyelliptical orbits are actually “burnt-out” comets. Since manyof them also have unusual colors, this is a reasonablespeculation.
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AST 303: Chapter 52
Comet-like Orbits of Some Minor Planets
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AST 303: Chapter 53
Meteor Showers
• There are two classes of meteors: sporadic meteors, that comeat unpredictable times and from unpredictable directions; andshower meteors. The latter are seen every year, alwaysassociated with a particular part of the sky. They are oftenassociated with a known comet, and are believed to be debrismoving in the same orbit as the comet, that the Earth passesnear every year.
Meteor Shower
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AST 303: Chapter 54
Comet Shoemaker-Levy
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AST 303: Chapter 55
Orbits of Meteor Streams
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AST 303: Chapter 56
Jovian (Giant) Planets
• The Jovian planets have the following characteristics:• Large, massive (Neptune is smallest)• Not dense (about same as water)• Far from Sun; low temperature• Composed of hydrogen, mostly, with helium as a second
constituent. May have rocky cores.• Thick, dense atmospheres.• Multiple satellites
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AST 303: Chapter 57
Jupiter and Saturn
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AST 303: Chapter 58
Uranus and Neptune
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AST 303: Chapter 59
Earthbased Photograph of Jupiter
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AST 303: Chapter 60
Jupiter Structure
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AST 303: Chapter 61
Spots, Cloud Belts, and Moons
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AST 303: Chapter 62
Spots
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AST 303: Chapter 63
Galilean Satellites
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AST 303: Chapter 64
Io as Pizza Pie
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AST 303: Chapter 65
Io Showing “Lava” Flows of Sulfur
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AST 303: Chapter 66
Io
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AST 303: Chapter 67
Europa
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AST 303: Chapter 68
Europa (Surface)
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AST 303: Chapter 69
Ganymede
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AST 303: Chapter 70
Ganymede (Surface)
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AST 303: Chapter 71
Callisto
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AST 303: Chapter 72
Jupiter Ring
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AST 303: Chapter 73
Saturn (Earthbased Photograph)
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AST 303: Chapter 74
Voyager Saturn
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AST 303: Chapter 75
Saturn’s Atmosphere
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AST 303: Chapter 76
Saturn’s Atmosphere
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AST 303: Chapter 77
Saturn
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AST 303: Chapter 78
Voyager Rings
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AST 303: Chapter 79
Spokes and Dusky Lanes
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AST 303: Chapter 80
Rings, with a Satellite
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AST 303: Chapter 81
Ring and Satellite; Braided Ring
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AST 303: Chapter 82
Mimas
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AST 303: Chapter 83
Enceladus
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AST 303: Chapter 84
Titan
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AST 303: Chapter 85
Titan’s Atmosphere and Weather
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AST 303: Chapter 86
Groundbased Picture of Uranus and Moons
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AST 303: Chapter 87
Uranus: The Planet That Got Knocked On Its Side
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AST 303: Chapter 88
Seasons on Uranus
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AST 303: Chapter 89
Uranus From Space
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AST 303: Chapter 90
Uranus and 5 Satellites
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AST 303: Chapter 91
Miranda
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AST 303: Chapter 92
Miranda
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AST 303: Chapter 93
Ariel
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AST 303: Chapter 94
Titania
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AST 303: Chapter 95
Discovery of Uranian Rings
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AST 303: Chapter 96
Uranian Ring System
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AST 303: Chapter 97
Uranian Rings
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AST 303: Chapter 98
Uranian Rings
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AST 303: Chapter 99
Neptune with Satellite (Groundbased)
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AST 303: Chapter 100
New Neptunian Satellites
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AST 303: Chapter 101
Neptune Ring
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AST 303: Chapter 102
Neptune and Blue Spot
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AST 303: Chapter 103
Blue Spot Changes
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AST 303: Chapter 104
Blue Spot
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AST 303: Chapter 105
Other Spots
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AST 303: Chapter 106
Triton
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AST 303: Chapter 107
Triton
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AST 303: Chapter 108
Nereid
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AST 303: Chapter 109
Pluto: A Planet?
• Pluto is a special case. It is not massive, and has only onesatellite, but is of low density and far from the Sun.
• Recent discoveries of a new class of Pluto-like objects haverevised thinking about Pluto• Many would not classify it as a planet at all, but rather as
the first-discovered of this new class of objects• …but, the question is really one of definition, not science• Gerard Kuiper had predicted that there would be a belt
containing many objects roughly beyond Pluto’s orbit; itappears that these newly-discovered objects are from thelong-sought Kuiper Belt, and Pluto was just the first-discovered of these objects.
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AST 303: Chapter 110
Pluto Discovery Plates (Blink)
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AST 303: Chapter 111
Pluto Discovery Plates (Blink)
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AST 303: Chapter 112
Pluto Discovery Plates
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AST 303: Chapter 113
Pluto and Charon
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AST 303: Chapter 114
Comets (3)
• Comets are believed to represent the most primitive andunaffected material of the solar system. Therefore we maydiscover clues about the origin of the solar system by studyingthem.
• The “Stardust” mission that landed this week is intended tostudy this material
Stardust portrait ofComet Wild 2
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AST 303: Chapter 115
Comets (3)
• Comets are believed to represent the most primitive andunaffected material of the solar system. Therefore we maydiscover clues about the origin of the solar system by studyingthem.
• The best model for a comet is Whipple’s “Icy Conglomerate”or “dirty snowball” model. The comet itself is a chunk ofvarious ices, dust, and other particles, which undergoesevaporation as the comet nears the Sun.
• Whipple’s model was confirmed by the various probes thatwere sent to Halley’s comet during the 1986 apparition. Onesurprise was that the comet nucleus itself was very black—noone had expected this!
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AST 303: Chapter 116
Comet Halley
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AST 303: Chapter 117
Comet Halley 1986
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AST 303: Chapter 118
Comet Halley 1986
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AST 303: Chapter 119
Comet Halley 1986
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AST 303: Chapter 120
Comet Halley 1986—Solar Wind
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AST 303: Chapter 121
Simultaneous Dust and Gas Tails
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AST 303: Chapter 122
Simultaneous Dust and Gas Tails
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AST 303: Chapter 123
Comets (1)
• The elongated orbits of comets show that they are associatedwith the outer parts of our solar system. The orbits of cometsare oriented somewhat randomly with respect to the planets.
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AST 303: Chapter 124
Types of Cometary Orbits
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AST 303: Chapter 125
Escape From the Solar System
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AST 303: Chapter 126
Origin Of Comets (1)
• Periodic comets like Halley’s reappear on a regular schedule.Calculations based on the amount of material they containshow that they would “wear out” after a few hundredapparitions; hence the comets we see must be relatively young.
• Halley’s comet has a period of 76 years. 300 apparitions ofHalley’s comet would be only 300 ×75 years or about 25,000years.
• The solar system is 4.5 billion years old.• Therefore comets are young, compared to the age of the solar
system.• How can the comets be young, if they represent the oldest
and least affected material in our solar system?
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AST 303: Chapter 127
Aging of a Comet
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AST 303: Chapter 128
Origin Of Comets (2)
• Oort proposed that there is a cloud of comets left over fromthe formation of the solar system, well beyond the orbits ofNeptune and Pluto (thousands of AU)
• Every so often, gravitational disturbances of passing stars willsend comets into the inner parts of the solar system.
• The reservoir of comets (“Oort cloud”) would be very large,and would provide a constant source of new comets,explaining why we still see them today.
• This also explains why the orbits of comets are so elongated.
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AST 303: Chapter 129
Oort Cloud
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AST 303: Chapter 130
Statistical Issues
• Historically, astronomy was the driver behind thedevelopment of many statistical methods• Gauss’ least squares for combining an overdetermined data
set to estimate orbital parameters of an object• Laplace developed Bayesian methods for astronomical as
well as other purposes. He expressed results in a typicalBayesian way (as the odds that the mass of Saturn laywithin a particular interval, for example)
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AST 303: Chapter 131
Statistical Issues
• We’ve seen how the extraordinarily detailed pictures fromspace have dramatically improved understanding of planets.Thus, image analysis is an important statistical problem, toaccount for the instrumental signature
• In orbital analysis, estimating collision probabilities of a largeearth-orbit crossing object has become of increasing interest.If detected far enough in advance, it may be possible to avoida collision with Earth by slightly altering the orbitalparameters of the object with a space mission.
• Much needs to be learned about, e.g., the population ofKuiper belt and Oort cloud objects. We don’t see most ofthese objects: Can we nonetheless make useful inferencesabout these populations?