NOTES: Solar System Debris

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NOTES Solar System Debris Comets Nucleus
is a dirty snowball (Whipple) from 1-10 km.
We see ion tail, a veil of evaporated ions swept
back by solar wind. It always points away
from the sun, and has a magnetic field
creating a glow like the aurora borealis. A dust
tail, visible mainly in the infrared, is
left in its wake. Comets break up a
bit each time they come close to the sun. Debris
in earth's orbit creates a meteor
shower at a regular time each year.
(Like the Leonids--from constellation Leo in
mid-November.) The radiation, solar wind
sublimate jets, making nucleus spin. Most
comets spend most of their time in the Oort Cloud
far beyond Pluto. (Few in the Kuiper
Belt just beyond Pluto.) Asteroids space rocks.
The asteroid belt over 100,000
between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres--largest 1000 km
diam., Pallas, Vesta, Juno. Either
it is a broken up planet or Jupiter's
gravity kept it in pieces. Kirkwood
gaps--fraction of Jupiters period. The
Trojans 700 carried around in gravity wells in
front of and behind Jupiter in its orbit
(at Lagrangian Points). The Amors--5 large
ones that come near earth's orbit. The
Apollos--5 large ones that cross earth's orbit.
Many others in Kuiper Belt, Oort cloud, and
dispersed. Meteors--shooting stars, rocks burning
up as they fall in atmos. Meteoroid--rock in
space, Meteorite--rock on earth from space,
stony to stony-irons. Carbonaceous
chondrites-stars. 11 m/s
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Dwarf Planets? Eris is 1 ½ Plutos size, Sedna
is about 4/5ths Plutos size. Its orbit varies
from 3 to 10 times Plutos distance.
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• There is speculation that there might be a very
  large planet
• (brown dwarf) at a great distance
• Two reasons
• Sumerian lorethe Planet Nibiru
• 2. A disturbance in the orbit and spin of Uranus
  and Neptune.

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The Naval Observatory called it Planet X
Nemesis is Physicists Luis Alvarez (asteroid
extinction of dinosaurs) name for his theory
for explaining periodic extinctions every 25
million years.
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Zechariah Sitchin says Nibiru has A period of
3600 years and beings from it brought human
genetics. Sumerian writings and drawings suggest
a Twelfth Planet.
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Comet Halley appearances William, the Conqueror
invades England--1066
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Giottothe Magi 1304-1306 Comet Halley
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A comet in the sky was blamed for the eruption
of Mount Vesuvius  in 1631
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Mark Twain1835-1910 I came in with Halley's
Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year
(1910), and I expect to go out with it.
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Sacrifice of Girl Stopped Fanatics About to Offer
Up Girl To Foil Comet When Posse
Arrives   Special to the Washington
Post.   Aline, Okla. May 18 1910 Miss Jane
Warfield, 16 years old, was today rescued from a
band of religious fanatics 25 miles southwest of
this place.  She was about to be offered up as a
sacrifice to make a blood atonement that the sins
of the world might be forgiven.
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Solar System Debris Comets Nucleus is a dirty
snowball (Whipple) from 1-10 km.
Nucleus of comet Halley
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We see the ion tail, a veil of evaporated ions
swept back by solar wind. It always points away
from the sun, and has a magnetic field creating a
glow like the aurora borealis. A dust tail,
visible mainly in the infrared, is left in its
wake.
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Comet Hale-Bopp1997. Rare visible dust tail.
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Comets break up a bit each time they
come close to the sun.
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Cometary debris in earth's orbit may
create a meteor shower at a regular time each
year. (Like the Leonids--from
constellation Leo in mid-November.)
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The radiation, solar wind sublimates jets,
making comet nucleus spin
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Most comets spend most of their time in the Oort
Cloud far beyond Pluto. (Few in the
Kuiper Belt just beyond Pluto.)
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Asteroids space rocks. The asteroid belt over
100,000 between Mars and Jupiter.
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Ceres--largest asteroid in Asteroid Belt--1000 km
diam.,
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The asteroid belt is either a broken up planet
(unlikely) or Jupiter's gravity kept it in
pieces. Kirkwood gaps --fraction of Jupiters
period
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The Trojans 700 carried around in gravity wells
in front of and behind Jupiter in its orbit (at
Lagrangian Points).
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The Amors--5 large ones that come near earth's
orbit. The Apollos--5 large ones that cross
earth's orbit.
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Meteors--shooting stars, rocks burning up as they
fall in atmos. Meteoroid--rock in space,
Meteorite--rock on earth from space
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Stony, irons, stony-irons
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Carbonaceous chondrites with carbon
chondreules Formed in supernova explosions