Geography 2090A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kuiper Belt, Late Heavy Bombardment, Solar Wind

• School: Western University
• Department: Geography
• Course: Geography 2090A/B
• Professor: Daniel Bednar

Document Summary

Lecture 8: formation and physics of the solar system. Hift (cid:449)he(cid:396)e the(cid:396)e is the (cid:862)f(cid:396)ost li(cid:374)e(cid:863) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h is te(cid:272)h(cid:374)i(cid:272)ally (cid:1007) li(cid:374)es (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h a(cid:396)e (cid:272)lose(cid:396) to the p(cid:396)otosu(cid:374) and further away. Planets begin, the materials are clumping together, and particles are getting together through static electricity and friction (rocks and dust) Star power the sun was getting so heavy that the atoms in the center start to fuse together (imagine a snowball that collects more and more stuff and getting bigger). When you fuse atoms, you are doing a similar process where you are releasing bonding energy of the atom and you release energy that is held within them creates a nuclear power star, or the sun. Belt formation all rocks in the asteroid belt look similar to a planet, but jupiter was so strong at that point and it would come by and rip them apart.