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Kuiper Belt - astronomy.
III RESEARCH The Kuiper Belt is an exciting area of research in astronomy. The discovery and astronomical exploration of the Kuiper Belt over the past decade have fueled arevolution in scientists’ views of the solar system. Today astronomers recognize the Kuiper Belt as the third major region of the solar system (the other two regions arethe inner solar system, with its small rocky planets, and the outer solar system, with its gas-giant planets). They believe that the belt helps explain Pluto’...
- Kuiper, ceinture de - astronomie.
- Kuiper-Ring - Astronomie.
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Solar System - astronomy.
dwarf planets according to the IAU because they have rounded shapes from their own gravity but have not cleared their neighborhoods in space of other objects—bothorbit through the Kuiper Belt, a region beyond Neptune containing thousands of small icy bodies. Pluto and Eris are composed of layers of ice around a rocky core.Ceres qualifies as a dwarf planet because it is spherical but is found in the asteroid belt, a zone between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter that contains thousands of smallrocky...
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Neptune (planet) - astronomy.
The gaseous atmosphere of Neptune contains hydrogen, helium, and about 3 percent methane. It extends about 5,000 km (about 3,000 mi) above the planet’s ocean.Light reflected from Neptune’s deep atmosphere is blue, because the atmospheric methane absorbs red and orange light but scatters blue light. In 1998 astronomersalso identified molecules of methyl in Neptune’s atmosphere. Methyl molecules each contain one carbon atom and three hydrogen atoms. Methyl molecules are knownas hydrocarbon radical...
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Planetary Science - astronomy.
III ORIGINS AND COMPOSITIONS OF PLANETS Astronomers believe that planetary systems are formed of elemental materials that were created in the interiors of giant stars. Some of this material comes from giantstars that shed material into space as they age. Most of the matter to form planets, however, comes from stars that explode as supernovas and spread debris enrichedwith the heavier chemical elements into space. According to the currently accepted views, the most likely first stage in the evo...
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comète - astronomie.
4.3 Les queues des comètes Chaque comète porte une queue originale, qui dépend de la composition du noyau, de sa taille, etc. Mais de manière générale, les comètes possèdent au moins deuxqueues : une queue de poussières et une queue de plasma. 4.3. 1 La queue de poussières Les poussières éjectées du noyau forment une traînée lumineuse, appelée queue de poussières, qui prolonge la chevelure. Cette queue, dont la longueur peut atteindreplusieurs millions de kilomètres, est toujours dirigée à l’o...
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Pluto - astronomy.
depended on how Pluto was classified. The status of Pluto drew world attention in 2006 when the official body that governs the naming of astronomical objects, the International Astronomical Union (IAU),voted for an official definition of the term planet . According to the standards adopted, a “classical planet” must orbit the Sun, must have a rounded shape from effects of its own gravity, and must be the dominant object in its region of space, having cleared the neighborhood of its orbit of oth...
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Asteroid - astronomy.
Asteroids of the S type, related to the stony iron meteorites, make up about 15 percent of the total population of asteroids that can be seen from Earth. Much rarer arethe M-type objects, corresponding in composition to the meteorites known as “irons.” These objects are made up of an iron-nickel alloy and may represent the cores ofbodies that were large enough to differentiate into layers and to melt deep inside. Their rocky outer layers may have been removed by impacts with other asteroids . A...
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solaire, Système - astronomie.
n’appartiennent pas à la ceinture. En effet, Jupiter a « piégé » deux amas d’astéroïdes, le premier précédant la planète et le second la suivant dans son orbite autour duSoleil ; on les nomme les Troyens. Sources de connaissances sur le développement de notre Système solaire, les astéroïdes peuvent entrer en collision avec la Terre, permettant ainsi la récupération etl’analyse de fragments appelés météorites. Les surfaces de Mercure, de Mars et de plusieurs satellites planétaires (dont la Lune)...
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Weltraumforschung im 20.
1980 Das Very Large Array bei Socorro (New Mexico) nimmt seinen Betrieb auf.Diese Antennenanlage besteht aus 27 Y-förmig angeordnetenRadioteleskopen (Durchmesser jeweils 25 Meter). 1980-1981 Erste detaillierte Aufnahmen des Saturn-Ringsystems durch die RaumsondeVoyager 1. 1981 Am 12. April startet der zum Teil wiederverwendbare Raumtransporter(Spaceshuttle, USA) zu seinem Erstflug.Nach vier Jahren Flugzeit erreicht die amerikanische Raumsonde Voyager 2den Saturn. 1983 Der Teleskopsatellit IRAS (...
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