AS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Kuiper Belt, Plutino, Dwarf Planet
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Chapter 14: comparaive planetology of the jovian planets. Oblateness the latening of a spherical body, usually caused by rotaion. Liquid metallic hydrogen a form of liquid hydrogen that is a good electrical conductor, inferred to exist in the interiors of jupiter and saturn. Magnetosphere the volume of space around a planet within the moion of charged paricles is dominated by the planetary magneic ield rather than the solar wind. Belt-zone circulaion the atmospheric circulaion typical of jovian planets in which dark belts and bright zones encircle the planet parallel to its equator. Forward scatering the opical property of inely divided paricles to preferenially direct light in the original direcion of the light"s travel. Roche limit the minimum distance between a planet and a satellite that can hold itself together by its gravity; if a satellite"s orbit brings it within its planet"s roche limit, idal forces will pull the satellite apart.
