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- all planets (terrestrial & Jovian) orbit Sun counterclockwise
- system extends to ~ 10,000 AU (Oort cloud)
- most orbits ~ circular & close to ecliptic plane
- planetary motions follow Kepler’s laws
- 1 AU = 1.5 x 1013
cm (or 149,597,870 km)
- solar system formed 4.6 Byrs ago in a rotating,
- circumstellar disk of gas and
dust
- follow evolution by observing sources at different epochs
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- A0 star ( 2 M¤) at 67 pc
- dust ring width ~ 17 AU, radius 70 AU
- collisionally-produced debris?
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- distance ~ 10 lyrs
- 850 mm dust
emission ® ring, mass ~ 0.2 MÅ
- inner radius 35 AU ~ Neptune’s orbit
- outer radius 75 AU ~
Kuiper Belt
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- Energy absorbed = Energy radiated
- (L/(4pd2))pr2 = 4pr2sT4
- T = 278 (L¤/d2AU)1/4 K
- Greenhouse effect :
- Earth’s atmosphere relatively
transparent to solar radiation
(heating)
- but re-radiation (cooling) in infrared is impeded (photons absorbed by
CO2, H2O)
- For Venus, greenhouse effect is enormous
- due to CO2, T = 600K
(could happen at Earth)
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- density 0.69 gm/cc
- belt zones like Jupiter but under a methane haze and less visible
- 24 moons - cause gaps in rings due to gravitational perturbations
- Titan largest ~ Mercury mass
- 1.5 x moon atmosphere; methane and nitrogen smog
- surface cold - ice (179K); reverse greenhouse effect - smog blocks
sunlight
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