Asteoid belt final, by samuel chandler v2

Asteoid belt final, by samuel chandler v2

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  The Asteroid Belt ByChandler Moy & Samuel Freisem- Kirov
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  Gravitational Pulls • TheAsteroid Belt is beyond the reach of Mars’s orbit but not beyond the reach of Mars’s gravitational pull • The gravitational pull form Jupiter prevents protoplanetary bodies (something didn’t grow into a planet) from growing larger than 1000 km • The Asteroid Belt is beyond the gravitational pull of Sol • The Asteroid Belt is affected by the Sun’s gravitational pull only by a little bit • The main forces on the Asteroid Belt are Jupiter and Mars
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  Tools for Discoveryand Investigation • One main tool for discovery and investigation is using space craft such as the Galileo space probe • Another main tool for discovery and investigation would be space telescopes • The space telescopes could be in space (example: Hubble), or you could see an asteroid from the ground using a regular telescope
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  Earth Passing Asteroids •An Earth Passing Asteroid is a large cosmic interloper which comes close to Earth • This happens when an asteroid breaks off from the asteroid belt and then it makes a plunge • An Earth Passing asteroid would cause concern because if it would to hit Earth, the effects could be catastrophic • If the asteroid hit land, it could create a huge crater and make a huge dust cloud, if it hit the sea, it could create big tidal waves
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  Asteroid Belt Objects •The objects that are in the Asteroid Belt are different then any other object because they weren’t able to form into planets • Also, the asteroids are not able to be full planets because of Jupiter’s gravitational pull on the asteroids
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  The Kuiper Belt
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  H2O • The waterin this planet is in the form of ice • It is in an ice form because it is too cold to have regular water on it • Also, it is thought that comets come from the Kuiper Belt because most of the objects in the Kuiper Belt are made out of ice
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  States of Matterand Materials • Like I said before, most of the objects in the Kuiper Belt are made out of ice • Also, they are also have some rock in them as well • For some reason some of these icy bodies are unusually red • Also, for some reason, the icy bodies tend to have dark nucleuses inside them
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  Rotation • Many ofthese objects orbit around Neptune with a 3:2 ratio • That means every two times Neptune rotates around the sun, those Asteroids will rotate around Neptune 3 times • Some of the other icy bodies orbit around Jupiter
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  • People areinterested in the icy bodies in the Kuiper belt because they have reason to believe that the Kuiper Belt is the source of comets • People believe that because of the matter that composes of the icy bodies • That matter is the same materials that make comets
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  Kuiper Belt Objects •The objects in the Kuiper Belt differ from other objects in the solar system because they are very icy • Also the Kuiper Belt one of places where comets are thought to come from
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  Bibliography • "The DailyGalaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech." Strange Propeller-Like Object Discovered in the Outer Reaches of the Kuiper Belt. The Daily Galaxy, 4 Oct. 2011. Web. 18 Apr.2012.<http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_w eblog/2011/10/-weird-propeller-shaped- object-discovered-in-the-outer-reaches-of- the-kuiper-belt.html>.
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  Bibliography • Arnett, Bill."The Kuiper BeltandThe Oort Cloud." Kuiper-Oort. Nine Planets, 18 Mar. 2007. Web. 17 Apr. 2012. <http://nineplanets.org/kboc.html>. • Jewitt, David. "Kuiper Belt." UCLA. Comet, 2009. Web. 18 Apr. 2012. <http://www2.ess.ucla.edu/~jewitt/kb.html>.
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  Bibliography cont. • "KuiperBelt Objects." Science Photo Library. Science Photo Library. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. <http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/32768 9/enlarge>. • Fuller, John. "How Asteroid Belts Work." HowStuffWorks. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. <http://www.howstuffworks.com/asteroid- belt.htm>.
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  The End