What is a Planet? By: Mallory Kimble, Vanessa VanScyoc, and Alison Koehler.
Astronomy Week 4 Counting Comets. Meteor Flash of light produced when a naturally occuring small solid object (a meteroid) enters Earth’s atmosphere from.
The Formed Solar System
The Solar System. SUN 75% hydrogen and 25% helium by mass Sun converts hydrogen to helium using nuclear fusion in its core. Differential rotation –e–e–e–equator.
Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs). The IAU draft definition of "planet" and "plutons" Q: What is a “double planet”? A: A pair of objects, which.
Hubble Space Telescope imaging of Ceres and Vesta L. McFadden and J.Y. Li (University of Maryland, College Park), J. Parker and E. Young (Southwest Research.
Overview
Hubble explores the limits of “roundness”: Ceres and Vesta
Discovering the Universe Ninth Edition
New Planet Definition Proposed by IAU The IAU therefore resolves that planets and other Solar System bodies be defined in the following way: (1) A planet.
CHAPTER 23 The Planets & The Solar System. The Inner Planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, and MarsInner Planets- Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars Called planets.
Dwarf planets, asteroids and comets Max Mutchler Research and Instrument Scientist Space Telescope Science Institute STScI Public Lecture December 2, 2008.
