Earth Sciences 1086F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Asteroid Family, Orbital Period, Aten Asteroid

• School: Western University
• Department: Earth Sciences
• Course: Earth Sciences 1086F/G
• Professor: Elizabeth Webb

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It is said that the sacred black kabaa stone to which muslims pay homage in mecca is a larger meteorite. Asteroid belt was thought to consist of material left over from a planet that was blasted into bits. Now it is believed that it is just material that never assembled into a planet at all: it is believed that it didn"t assemble into a planet due to the force of jupiter. Asteroid: natural rocky object in space (100m-several 100"s km in diameter) Meteor visual streak of light associated with passage of small meteoroid through earth"s atmosphere. Fireball light associated with a large meteoroid or asteroid as it interacts with the atmosphere. Meteorite fragment that lands on earth"s surface. David gregory wrote about the relationship between planet orbits. Add 4 divide by 10 = predicted planet spacing in au. In the early solar system, there was no asteroid belt.