ASTRON 2B03 Lecture Notes - Interstellar Travel, Kuiper Belt, Aurora
25 Sep 2013
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No solid surface huge thick layer of clouds. 64 moons (satellites [miniature solar systems]) as of now. Bands - cloud patterns they rotate with the planet: the great red spot giant hurricane (much longer lived than any hurricane on earth, approx. 400 years) trapped by bands of clouds. 4 famous moons galilean moons: io is one of them. He could see with his rudimentary telescope. Small moons that come together that broke up, and others that did not form (other matter) Neptune has a large storm (kinda like the great red storm) Mars and jupiter - between them lies the asteroid belt. Gravity of jupiter prevented the material from forming a planet that"s why the astrioids stay there (together, lots of them: the largest of the asteroids between mars and jupiter is. Ceres and it is now considered a dwarf planet. Normally, its planet then space (nothing), then planet.
