PHYS 1305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Great Dark Spot, Voyager 2, Strong Interaction
22 Nov 2016
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4:30 pm: phenomena, u bands and wind, u extreme seasons. Wind profile has features: n bands and wind. N summer sun shines n hem only. 1 u year= 84 e year not easy to examine seasons. Large and small scale structures changed when at autumn equinox 2007: n seasonal changes. N year= 164 earth year not easy to observe. Hst reveals bright clouds and dark spot. Great dark spot weather system: n weather, u weather. Short lifetime: u and n sat. Disc 1846 (william lassell) visited by voyager 2 1989. Thought to be part of kuiper belt. Most kbos circular orbits, some eccentric: trans-neptunian objects. Pluto and eirs: pluto, p atm. Visited new horizons: pluto and charon interior. Charon similar but possible more uniform with rock ice mixture. Strong photchem in upper atm of pluto. P, triton and titon good places to study hydrocarbons and o chem.
