AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lunar Prospector, Planetary Science, Escape Velocity
31 May 2016
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Uranus - discovered by hershel - late 18th century. Mars" moons - phobos and deimos - asteroids. Saturn - titan/large moon - many small moons. Neptune - 3 moons - triton fairly large. Pluto - charon - almost the same size. Meteors - dust which burns up in the atmosphere. Asteroids - large rocks - from 1 - 1000 km in diameter asteroid belt - 1000"s between mars and jupiter. Planetary rings debris in orbit about some planets. The terrestrial planets the inner planets - mercury, venus, earth and mars similar size and composition to earth no atmosphere or relatively thin rocky worlds closely spaced small mass slow rotation weak magnetic elds few moons. 4 m o c s s a l c e n o t a s e c r u o s e r e r o m d n i f.
