AST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud, Doppler Spectroscopy

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Astronomy
• Course: AST 111
• Professor: Reynolds

Document Summary

Asteroids: most are small and have irregular shapes. Rocky fragments of and leftover planetesimals from the era of planet formation, Due to jupiter"s gravity, asteroids were prevented from accreting into a planet, and so most asteroids orbit around the sun in the asteroid belt between mars and. The asteroid belt has been grinding itself down since its creation, and will continue to do so as long as our solar system exists. Meteor: a flash of light caused by a particle entering our atmosphere at high. Meteorite: a rock that has come from the sky and reached the ground, usually speed quite small and covered in a dark crust from the fiery passage through the atmosphere. Primitive meteorites: meteorites that are remnants from the birth of our. Processed meteorites: were once part of a larger object that processed the original material of the solar nebula into another form.