not your parents’ solar system!. how i learned the solar system sun & 9 planets separate...
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Not Your Parents’ Solar System!
Not Your Parents’ Solar System!
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How I learned the solar systemHow I learned the solar system• Sun & 9 planets• Separate section on each• Mention asteroids and comets• Lots of cool facts
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MercuryVenus
EarthMars
JupiterSaturn
UranusNeptune Pluto
MyVery
Energetic Mother
JustServed
UsNine
Pizzas
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What’s wrong?What’s wrong?
• Memorization• Factoids• Highlights differences• Little or no relevance• Little or no “big picture”
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An ImprovementAn Improvement
• Compare and contrast– Discuss broad ideas– Apply to planets, moons, etc., as a
group
• Highlight similarities– Appearance– Characteristics– Events
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Other comparisonsOther comparisons
• Craters – Earth, Moon, Mercury, etc• Volcanoes – Mount St. Helens, Olympus
Mons, Io, etc• Canyons – Grand Canyon, Mariner Valley
• Storms, Winds, Seasons, Weather, Ice Floes, Magnetic Fields, Moons, Rings, etc
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Compare and ContrastCompare and Contrast
• Messages– What happens on Earth happens
elsewhere– Solar system is understandable
• Problems– Need to establish facts before
comparison– Big picture still lacking
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21st Century View21st Century View
• Six families of the solar system– Star– Rocky planets– Asteroid belt– Gas giant planets– Kuiper belt– Oort cloud
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Hollywood’s View of the Asteroid Belt
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Scientific View of the Asteroid BeltScientific View of the Asteroid Belt
500 million miles500 million miles
Thousands of Thousands of asteroids …asteroids …
about a million about a million miles apart!miles apart!
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Kuiper Belt
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Oort Cloud ?
• Billions of icy minor planets – comet nuclei
• Roughly spherical out to 50,000 AU
• Predicted by Jan Oort
• Explains long-period comets
• No observations [Sedna?]
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Families of the Solar SystemFamilies of the Solar System• Classes of similar objects
– Size– Composition– Orbit size– Orbit shape– Orbit inclination– Moons– Rings
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Families of the Solar SystemFamilies of the Solar System• Classification• Structure of the solar system
– Similar objects lie in similar regions
• Clues to solar system formation and evolution
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Sun
Rocky Planets
Asteroid Belt
Gas Giant Planets
Kuiper Belt
Oort Cloud
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Sun
Oort Cloud
Mercury Venus Earth Mars
Asteroid Belt Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune
Kuiper Belt
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Some
Others Cheer
May View Elaborate Mnemonics
As Boring,
Just Some Useless Nonsensical
Knowledge, But
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What about Pluto?What about Pluto?
• Not a rocky planet• Not a gas giant planet
• For teachers, it is an opportunity
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Planet PlutoPlanet Pluto
• 1930 Tombaugh discovers Pluto
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Double Take: CharonDouble Take: Charon
• 1978 – James Christy (USNO) observations to refine Pluto’s orbit
• Notices elongated images, deduces moon
• 1985 – Charon occults Pluto, confirms existence
• Refined sizes and masses – tiny
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First Pictures of Pluto/CharonFirst Pictures of Pluto/Charon• 1995 – Hubble Space Telescope
infrared• 1996 – Hubble Space Telescope
visible
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First Pictures of PlutoFirst Pictures of Pluto
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Black Sheep of the PlanetsBlack Sheep of the Planets
• Pluto is the oddball– Size– Companion– Composition– Orbit– 3:2 resonance with Neptune
• Pluto/Charon as double ice planet?
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Kuiper BeltKuiper Belt• History
– 1930 – Leonard mentions possibility of trans-Plutonian objects
– 1943 – Kenneth Edgeworth postulates objects beyond Pluto
– 1951 – Gerard Kuiper predicts that a massive Pluto would disperse small objects into a belt
– 1980 – Fernandez predicts belt that resembles what was eventually found
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KBOsKBOs
• 1992 – Jewitt & Luu find object dubbed QB1
• Distance of 42 AU• First (third?) object
discovered in the Kuiper Belt
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More and more KBOsMore and more KBOs
• Large searches for KBOs ensued• Hundreds discovered within a decade• About 700 so far (Mar 2004)• Over 70,000 predicted with diameters
> 100 km, orbits 30-50 AU• Plutinos – Neptune resonance• Scattered – Neptune affects orbit• Classsical – Separated from Neptune
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Pluto/Charon orbits within Kuiper Belt
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Orbit Comparison: Pluto/Charon vs 2004 DW
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Large KBOsLarge KBOs
• Pluto still larger, but not by that much
• Note: plot below doesn’t include Quaoar or Sedna
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Sedna – the Inner Oort Cloud?Sedna – the Inner Oort Cloud?
• Orbit 76 – 840 AU– outside Kuiper
Belt– inside Oort Cloud
• Very red color• Slow rotation
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Binary KBOsBinary KBOs
• Pluto/Charon not the only binary object
• Nine discovered so far (Nov 2003)• All types of KBOs have binaries
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What is Pluto?What is Pluto?
• You make the call– Singular ice planet– Mutant giant double comet– King of the Kuiper Belt– ???
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Kuiper Belt Expert’s ViewKuiper Belt Expert’s View
“So, bluntly put, one has two choices. One can either regard Pluto as the smallest, most peculiar planet moving on the most eccentric and most inclined orbit of any of the planets or one can accept that Pluto is the largest known, but otherwise completely typical, Kuiper Belt Object. The choice you make is up to you, but from the point of view of trying to understand the origin and significance of Pluto it clearly makes sense to take the second option.” Dave Jewitt, University of Hawaii
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IAU Official PositionIAU Official Position
• IAU defines Pluto to be a planet• IAU cannot define “planet”
– Upper limit: not massive enough to produce any form of fusion at its core
– Deuterium fusion occurs for objects about 15 times Jupiter’s mass
– No lower limit specified
• Reasonable lower limit?– Massive enough for gravity to make it spherical– At least 14 planets– No reasonable definition produces 9 planets
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What is a Planet?What is a Planet?
• Solar system alone is category of one
• What about other solar systems?
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Planets around Other StarsPlanets around Other Stars
• Jupiter mass planets in Mercury orbits
• Elliptical orbits• Multiple Jupiter sized planets• Saturn mass planets detected
(2003)• Planets around pulsars
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Perspective on the Solar SystemPerspective on the Solar System• Our solar system is the oddball• Need to generalize our formation
and evolution scenarios• Implications for life in the universe
– Lots of planets– Stability of orbits?
• New era of solar system study