| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Percival Lowell | One who said there was a pluto but did not actually discover it |
| Clyde Tombawgh | Discovered Pluto where Lowell said it would be before he died |
| Charon | Plutos moon Tidally locked to eachother |
| Kuiper Belt | Belt of icy rocky comets that pluto is a part of |
| Asteroid | Lare asymmetric rock that mostly orbit between mars + jupiters orbits in the asteroid belt |
| Titius Bode Law | Used random numbers to tell the distances of planets and find the asteroid belt |
| Amor Asteroids | Cross mars orbit |
| Apollo Asteroids | Cross earths orbit |
| Aten Asteroids | Cross mercury's orbit |
| Trojan Asteroids | Co orbital with jupiter |
| Binary Asteroids | 2 asteroids that share an orbit |
| Hirayama Families | Group of asteroids with similar components that were probably all from the same large object |
| C-Type | Asteroids, dark, high carbon content, farther out in asteroid belt |
| S-Type | Brighter, high content of silicates, closer to run |
| Meteors | Mostly small rocks that are pieces of asteroids burning up in our atmosphere |
| Meteoroids | Meteors that are floating in space |
| Meteorite | When a meteor reaches the ground |
| Fireball | Big bright meteor that makes it to the ground |
| 3 Types of Meteorites | Irons, Stony, and Stony Irons |
| Meteor Shower | Happens every time earth passes through path of a meteor |
| Meteor swarm | Debris from a comet |
| Star | Glowing ball of gas held together by gravity and powered by nuclear fusion |
| Order of suns layers outside in | Corona, Chromosphere, Photosphere, Convection zone, Radiation zone, Core |
| Helioseismology | Seismic waves in sun |
| GONG | Global Oscillations Network Group Stands for telescopes around the world that observe the sun non stop for days, weeks, and months at a time |
| Core energy transport | Fusion H--->He |
| Radiation zone energy transport | Starts as gamma rays to x rays, then to high energy UV rays |
| Convection zone energy transport | Heat of radiation absorbed by large bubble of gas which rises and transforms into smaller bubbles which rise to surface |
| Photosphere energy transport | Where heat is given off as sunlight |
| Granules | Smallest bubbles of gas on surface of sun |
| Super granules | Groups of rising or falling granules caused by big bubbles underneath |
| Reason sunspots are created | Caused because of kinks in the magnetic field |
| Sunspots | Magnetic storms that are darker then rest of photosphere because they are colder |
| Umbra | Dark inner part of the sunspot |
| Penumbra | Lighter outer part of the sunspot |
| Prominences | Glowing gas filling in magnetic field kink |
| 2 kinds of prominences | Active(small), Quiescent(larger) |
| Spicules | Jets of gas emitted at the edges of a super granule |
| Coronal Streamers | Right above sunspot groups |
Combine with other sets
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