Slide 1http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Aug10/gas-dust-Oisotopes.html New View of Gas and Dust in the Solar Nebula Slide 2 http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Aug10/gas-dust-Oisotopes.html…

Slide 1Star Birth How do stars form? What is the maximum mass of a new star? What is the minimum mass of a new star? Slide 2 How do stars form? Slide 3 Star-Forming Clouds…

Slide 1Our Solar System and How It Formed Slide 2 There are patterns in our solar system that give clues to its formation… Slide 3 1. The motions of the major bodies in…

Slide 1 Zodiacal Light Scientific Possibilities for Observations from Space Probes Bill Reach Associate Director for Science Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy…

Slide 1 MINOR MEMBERS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM: Asteroids Slide 2 Images of three asteroids, taken during spacecraft flybys, shown to scale (Mathilde is 59 km wide and 47 km high)…

Slide 1 http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/June11/traveling_CAI.html A Traveling CAIA Traveling CAI Minerals from a CAI and its prominent rim have a wide range of oxygen isotopic…

Slide 1 The name for the group of sciences that deals with the earth and its neighbors in space. Slide 2 Slide 3 Earthquakes Mountains Volcanoes Slide 4 Geology Slide 5 Earth’s…

Slide 1 Earth as a cosmic matter Slide 2 The Solar System Slide 3 Desk or round shape? Elliptical orbits? The Sun-Centre of the Universe? Heliocentric system Gravitation…

Slide 1 UNIT 2 THE SOLAR SYSTEM Vocabulary Review Slide 2 IN THE ORBIT OF A PLANET OR ANOTHER BODY IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM, THE POINT THAT IS FARTHEST FROM THE SUN aphelion Slide…

Slide 1 The Formation of the Solar System How did it get to be this way? Slide 2 Formation of the solar system First question: how long ago did this happen? Nobel Prize winner…