PPT-14b. Pluto, Kuiper Belt & Oort Cloud

Pluto Basic characteristics Plutos moons The Kuiper Belt Basic characteristics Resonant Kuiper Belt objects Classical Kuiper Belt objects The Oort Cloud Basic characteristics Pluto Data Numbers. Scientific Possibilities for Observations . from Space Probes. Bill Reach. Associate Director for Science. Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. Why Study the Smaller Bodies?. Tracer of gravitational potential. Written By: Katie Lucken. “Though the Queen Alina is no longer with us, she has chosen our next ruler well! . Long . live Queen Jilliette Lutunia!” The royal announcer . boomed.. Jilliette walked up the . B. y. T. a. y. l. a . &. J. e. s. s. a. m. y. Who Discovered Pluto?. Percivul. . Lowel. Pluto has one moon called Charon.. Pluto has no volcanoes, it has a surface of rock and ice.. Pluto is named after a Greek God (or Roman).. with Herschel. :. an overview of the DUNES modeling activities. Jean-Charles Augereau, Steve . Ertel. , Alexander . Krivov. , Jérémy . Lebreton. , Torsten . Löhne. , . Sebastian. Müller, Philippe Thébault, . Mission. Status Report for SBAG. Will Grundy. Lowell Observatory. New Horizons: To . Pluto and Beyond. Pluto-Charon. July 2015. KBOs. 2016-2020. Jupiter System. Feb-March 2007. The Initial Reconnaissance of The Solar System. th. 2015. https. ://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-pluto-images-from-nasa-s-new-horizons-it-s-complicated. The heart-shaped icy region of Pluto. Close up of the ‘heart-shaped’ icy region of Pluto. New close-up images of a region near Pluto’s equator reveal a giant surprise: a range of youthful mountains rising as high as 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) above the surface of the icy body.. Size, Color, Surface Features, Rotation, Revolution, and Density. 2,302 km in diameter . 20% of Earth’s size. Darker color with white splotches. i. ce caps, sediment, nitrogen, methane, carbon monoxide . Pluto’s Largest Satellite. Discovery. James Christy. June 22, 1978. US Naval Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ. Discovered as a “bulge” on Pluto. Eclipse from 1985 to 1990. Surface Characteristics. Radius: Roughly one-tenth of Earth’s. The Oort Cloud. What is the Oort Cloud?. Spherical area between 5,000 and 100,000 AU from the sun (Kuiper belt ends at 55 AU). Proxima Centauri is 270,000 AU from sun. Contains between 0.1 and 2 trillion comets. . New . Horizons. James Zimbelman. National Air and Space Museum. Smithsonian Institution. Pluto. Charon. Pluto. Diam. . = 0.2 E. Pluto. Charon. HST (2/21/94). “. Double-planet. ”. (1172 km). 0.33 M. th. , 2018. Pre-Class:. Where do we find asteroids in our solar system?. http://. www.esa.int. Comet 67P/. Churyumov-Gerasimenko. seen from . Rosetta. In This Lesson:. Solar System Debris. (Lesson 2 of 2). Chapter 12: "Rings, Moons & Pluto". Europa. Callisto. is the outermost of Galilean moons at a distance of 1.2 million miles.. It is in synchronous revolution around Jupiter every 17 days.. . The moon has a heavily cratered surface that has seen little change over the last 4.4 billion years. . . 1. Test each of the following sample correlation coefficients for positive correlation at 5% significance, where . is the sample size..  . BHASVIC M. α. THS. A1 DOUBLES ASSIGNMENT 14B. . 2. Information for 20 students is used to investigate the hypothesis that there is a correlation between IQ and results in a maths test. . Kuiper. Belt – a disk-shaped region past the orbit of Neptune, extending roughly 30 to 50 AU from the Sun, containing many small icy bodies.. Notable KBOs. . Quaoar. , . Sedna. , “. Xena. ” & “Gabrielle” (2003 UB.