AST101H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Asteroid Belt, Real Gas, Oort Cloud

• School: UTSG
• Department: Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Course: AST101H1
• Professor: Michael Reid

Document Summary

It"s important to change temperature for emit light. The green one is either moving away from us or is hotter. A solar system consists of a star orbited by planets, moons, and lots of debris (comets, asteroids, dust) The orbits of the 8 planets are nearly circular. Outer solar system: jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune, many dwarf planets and comets. Terrestrial (earth-like) planets are small, rocky, have thin or no atmosphere, have few moos, and occupy the inner solar system. Jovian (jupiter-like): large, made of gas and liquid, have thick atmospheres, have many moons, and occupy the outer solar system. Thick co2 atmosphere, lots of possibly active volcanoes. Runaway greenhouse effect makes it even hotter than mercury 460c everywhere. Only planet we have to live on. Was probably earth-like in the distant past(wet & warmish) In between orbits of mars and jupiter. Many thousands or millions of rubble piles . Material left over from the formation of the solar system,