AST-1002 Study Guide - Final Guide: Primordial Black Hole, Mount Everest, Gravitational Redshift
Document Summary
Small solar system bodies - all objects in the solar system that are not planets dwarf planets or moons. Asteroid belt - a 1 astronomical-unit-wide region between the orbits of mars and jupiter in which most of the steroids closer to the sun than neptune are found. Belt asteroids - an asteroid whose orbit lies in the asteroid belt. The trojan asteroid found around 60 degrees from the planet along the path of its orbit. The kuiper belt is a doughnut shaped ring of space around the sun beyond pluto that contains many frozen comet bodies, some of which are occasionally deflected toward the inner solar system. Charon is half the size of its planet, pluto. Most other moons are smaller than the planetes about which they arbit. There are a number of moons, including our own moon, which are bigger than pluto. Due to the eccentricity of pluto"s orbit, its closest approach lies w/ in neptune"s orbit.
