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The Solar System

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Title: The Solar System


1
Chapter 4
  • The Solar System

2
Basic facts
  • Composition of the Solar System
  • Star
  • Planets
  • Moons
  • Other
  • Planetary orbits
  • Direction
  • Inclination
  • Eccentricity

3
Terrestrial vs. Jovian Planets
4
Stellar Debris
  • Asteroids
  • Comets
  • Meteoroids

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Comets
  • Gas (ion) tail (type I)
  • Dust tail (type II)
  • Coma

7
Comet Nuclei
8
The Origin of Comets
  • Long period comets
  • Short period comets
  • Kuiper Belt
  • Oort Cloud

9
Meteoroids
  • Meteoroids
  • Meteors
  • Meteorites

10
Meteor Showers
11
Comet Impacts
  • 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter.

12
Evidence of Impacts on Earth
  • Barringer Meteor Crater
  • The Tunguska Event (30 June 1908)

13
The Extinction of the Dinosaurs
  • Iridium layer
  • Shocks and tsunamis
  • Forest fires
  • Dust in atmosphere
  • CO2 released

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