Astronomy 210
Lecture 21, October 13
Fall 2010
Lecture Notes:
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The Jovian Planets
Jupiter
: The Prototype
Jovian
interiors
Great
Red
Spot
image
, movies:
black&white
,
color
more Jupiter
movies
Rings: the
Roche Limit
Saturn: rings
edge-on
, illuminated from
below
,
spokes
Cassini
movies
:
approaching Saturn
,
ring crossing
--a must-see!, flyby of moon
Dione
images:
density waves in rings
,
rings in UV
,
rings in natural color
,
translucent C-ring
,
IR Saturn
Jupiter
Uranus
Debris I: Asteroids
Distribution and Orbits
Inner Solar System objects
plotted
Main Belt objects:
Ceres and Vesta lineup
,
Gaspara
,
Ida & Dactyl
Near-Earth
objects
Earth infall: meteors:
Leonids
,
fireball
Structure:
NEAR
Mission to asteroid Eros:
Eros
overview
,
rotation movie
,
zoom
,
extreme closeup
composition
Debris II: Comets
Hyakutake
,
West
,
Ikeya Seki
McNaught--brightest comet in decades! perihelion last month!
over Catalonia
,
near Sun
,
over New Zealand
HST Hale-Bopp coma
Shoemaker-Levy 9
and
Jupiter
Sun-grazing comets
(
SOHO
):
image
,
movie
Structure
Tail direction (
SS orbit viewer
)
Kuiper Belt: current data
plotted
Oort Cloud
Pluto, Eris, and Planethood
Charon discovery
image
(1978) HST
image
(1994),
Pluto surface
(2001),
yet more moons
(2006)
Quaoar
,
Sedna
, and finally:
Eris
(nee Xena)
votes are in:
IAU resolution
demoting Pluto
Lecture Archive
Brian D. Fields
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