GEOL 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 56: Gerard Kuiper, Jane Luu, Clyde Tombaugh
27 Dec 2017
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Charon is roughly half pluto"s diameter and larger than 1 ceres. Pluto"s atmosphere (methane, nitrogen, etc. ) allegedly condense onto this especially cold region, then become transformed into tholins. (howett, 2015: spectroscopic evidence for pristine water ice and ammonium hydrate crystals, suggests recent active cryovolcanism. (cook et al. , 2007) In all, charon seems to have a differentiated interior and active tectonics. tay tuned. Recall that pluto"s orbit brings it (and charon) inside the orbit of. If you complain that all three of the trans-neptunian objects considered here at some point or another actually not trans- New horizons has been redirected toward a 2019 fly-by of the classic kuiper belt object 2014 mu69. At last, we will glimpse a truly trans-neptunian body. Chiron and friends: one last thing - we did not address one component of thegraph of trans-neptunian objectspresented above. An unremarkable 233 km long potato except for its orbit, which crosses those of saturn and.
