Distinguished Exoplanet Lecture Tonight!

Debris I: Asteroids

• Distribution and Orbits
  • Inner Solar System objects plotted
  • Main Belt objects: Vesta portrait and video, Gaspara, Ida & Dactyl
  • Near-Earth objects
  • orbits seen from top vs side
  • current events: asteroid collision detected
• Earth infall: meteors Leonids, one fireball, another, and another
• Feb 15, 2013: Chelyabinsk meteor flash, crater, videos of fall, impact, Daily Show take
• Structure: NEAR Mission to asteroid Eros:
  Eros overview, rotation movie, zoom, extreme closeup composition
• Dwarf planet Ceres: gallery

Oumuamua

Debris II: Comets

• Hyakutake, West, Ikeya Seki, PanSTARRS
• McNaught--brightest comet in decades! over Catalonia, near Sun, over New Zealand
• HST Hale-Bopp coma
• Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter
• Sun-grazing comets (SOHO): image, movie
• Structure: Rosetta comet images
• Tail direction , a particularly striking example, and another
• Kuiper Belt: current data plotted
• Oort Cloud

Pluto, Eris, and Planethood

• Pluto discovery by Clyde Tombaugh (from Streator IL!)
• Pluto: Charon discovery image (1978) HST image (1994), Pluto surface (2001), yet more moons (2011)
• New Horizons gallery
• Quaoar, Sedna, and finally: Eris (nee Xena)
• votes are in: IAU resolution demoting Pluto