AST101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cryovolcano, Protoplanet, Not Proven

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Ast101 lecture 18 dwarf planets & jovian planets. Could possibly be a surviving protoplanet - celestial body with collection of matter that survived from the time and from within the disk where planets were formed. Orbits in the main asteroid belt does not have its own cleared orbital path dwarf planet. Photographed by the dawn spacecraft on may 7th, 2015. Has white, bright spots in a region on its north pole. The spacecraft used a new technology called an ion engine. Enabling it to orbit two different celestial objects without the use of large amounts of fuel to escape the orbit of one celestial object and into another: pluto. Possibility of an ice volcano on pluto. Large breaks across the planet with craters below the break but not as many above the vast crack. Consist mostly of light elements (h and he) Mostly tiny solid cores with thick layers of liquid and gas.

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