Ceres has diameter of about 30% of that of the Moon. Earth. Ceres ... Moon. Asteroid. Gaspra from the. Galileo spacecraft which passed within 1600 km ...
Asteroids. How We Study Them. Spacecraft. Ground-Based and ... 951 Gaspra (15 km) 243 Ida (40 km) and Dactyl. 253 Mathilde (50 km) Three Asteroids Compared ...
Asteroids How We Study Them Spacecraft Ground-Based and Hubble Imaging Radar Imaging Spacecraft Images 951 Gaspra (15 km) 243 Ida (40 km) and Dactyl 253 Mathilde (50 ...
EROS orbital path. Gaspra orbital path. IDA orbital path. Mathilde orbital path ... http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?sstr=EROS&group=ast&search=Search ...
Comets. Meteoroids. Ida & Dactyl. Gaspra. Mathilde. Comets. Gas (ion) ... Comet Impacts. 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter. Evidence of Impacts on Earth ...
Unique in that it appears to have undergone volcanism Two other Asteroids to know Pallas 580 km and Juno 540 km Asteroid Observations The Galileo space ...
Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids Structure of a Comet To Sun Ion Tail Dust Tail Coma Comet Structure Nucleus 10 km Dirty Snowball Coma Cloud of evaporated ices ...
The Terrestrial Planets Mercury Very hot/cold Difference between hottest spots and coldest spots is 600 Orbits the sun in 88 Earth days Rotates on its axis in 58 ...
Space Weathering on Main Belt Asteroids. Robert Jedicke - Institute for Astronomy ... Space Weathering on Main Belt Asteroids. S/C-Complex H 15 Semi-Major Axis ...
11.2 The Sun and the Planets See pages 382 - 383 Our Sun, an average star in the universe, is the center of our solar system. Our solar system is full of planets ...
CENTRO ESCOLAR DEL TEPEYAC P gina 1 DESCRIPCI N DEL SISTEMA SOLAR Est formado por diversos componentes entre los que se encuentran: Sol, ocho planetas, numerosos ...
There are many more material properties to consider than we can address. ... Gabbro 10 -30 Shale 15 -30 Limestone 35 -50 Basalt 50 -55 Granite 45 -60 'Soils' ...
Why go to Eros? First discovered and second largest near-Earth ... Eros is an Amor (an Earth-approaching asteroid) More than a century of ground-based studies ...
What is in our Solar System? Directions: List 10 things that are on our ... and Kuiper Belt ... Kuiper Belt- A disk shaped area past the orbit of Neptune with ...
Huygens ... Huygens was also famous for his invention of the pendulum clock, the first ... Deployment of the Huygens probe to Titan is scheduled for November 5, ...
NGC 6946 is a big spiral galaxy that looks a lot like our own galaxy, the Milky Way. ... It spins so fast that it bulges at the equator, and stretches its clouds into ...
The constellation of Orion. and the Milky Way (The bright stars we see here ... forming in Orion ... How Orion would look if you were near a black hole ...
Now about 30,000 asteroids have been discovered, 10,000 with. well defined orbits. ... Amor asteroids with perihelia between the orbits of Earth and Mars, ...
2000 orbited 433 Eros for 1 year. Studied magnetic field, mass, orbit, composition & surface ... descent to surface of Eros. Images & data. Deep Space 1 ...
Payload of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Travel. VEEGA. Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist ... The Deep Space Network tracking station in Goldstone, Calif. ...
Buzz Lightyear - Superhero. A Light Year is a unit of Distance, not time. ... create its own light, but instead shines. by reflecting the light. from nearby stars. ...
When the earth passes through this collection, we see a meteor shower ... Any meteor that survives passage through the atmosphere may leave an impact ...
We will hunt for asteroids using the world's largest robotic telescope, the ... Most, however, are contained within a main belt that exists between the orbits ...
The Solar System By Mr. Coverdale How was the Solar System formed? 5 billion years ago the Solar System was a nebula (cloud of gas and dust) Gravity pulled the ...
One of Jupiter's moons, Europa may have a deep ocean of liquid water on it and ... 'Jupiter has a total of sixty-three moons, ranging from tiny 'moonlets' only a ...
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Early astronomers knew Moon, stars, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, comets, and meteors ... Planets have been discovered in other solar systems ...
Earth is a dynamic planet with its surface and atmosphere having changed over its lifetime. ... determined from analyzing seismic waves and the Earth's density ...