Jupiter's Asteroid Belt

Of the more than 1,000 known objects in the Kuiper Belt, 2003 UB313 and Pluto are the largest and second largest (Brown 17-19.) Brown's states a fact of how many objects (nearly 1,000) in the Kuiper Belt are smaller than UB313 and Pluto. They are still considered bigger than what an asteroid is and still be deemed as a planet. “But subsequent study showed that Pluto is puny, barely a quarter the size of our own Moon. And we now know that Planet X never existed, the product of some subtle errors in some century-old mathematical calculations. While the first eight planets all rule their orbits,” (Gaensler 37-39.) Gaensler says in article that Pluto should not have been started as a planet because of subtle errors in some century-old mathematical calculations. Pluto was too small to be considered a planet, and should only have the first eight planets rule their orbits. From these quotes from the two articles, we learn that facts for the Pluto’s size being bigger than what people think. Pluto is basically can be a “continents” because there is large continents while small ones. If Pluto is the second largest object in the Kuiper Belt, it should be considered a planet in our eyes. The article, “Why Pluto had to go”, talks about how the size of the our moon being larger than Pluto. Pluto size doesn’t even compare to our Moon so why should it be consider a planet. I think we can learn that the first eight planets that were the largest in size should be only the ones called

Have you ever done something in the past that only impacted you n in the future? The book “Orbiting Jupiter” by Gary Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. This is due to Joseph attacking and almost killing a teacher. When he was interrogated, he claimed that he was drugged, and his mind flew somewhere else at the time and he wasn’t in control of his actions. Although this was confirmed, he was still sent to a juvenile facility due to safety concerns. When the facility released him, he was sent to a foster home because of the abuse he suffered from his dad. Not only did the foster family look after him, they taught him family values and played a huge role in Josephs recovery. Throughout the story, the characters in Orbiting Jupiter

The Kuiper Belt is very comparable to the Asteroid Belt. The Kuiper belt is located just past Neptune's orbit. It is made up from the debris left over from the formation of the Solar System. The belt is a collection of objects made up of rock, metal, and frozen elements such as, methane, ammonia, and water. Like the Asteroid Belt, the asteroids in this region past Neptune are not able to come together to form a planet; leaving us with the Kuiper Belt around our Solar System.

The reading on terrestrial planets from chapter 6 provides readers with a little insight on the similarities and differences between the planets. These planets include Earth, Venus, Mercury, and Mars. Although these planets have very different properties, they are connected due to their history. There are scientific laws that help people understand, compare, and contrast these planets, such as gravity, chemical composition, and temperature.

In July scientists discovered that Juno had made it to Jupiter. The spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on august 5, five years ago. In those five years, it has traveled 1.8 billion miles to Jupiter. Currently Juno is in orbit around the large planet. It will hopefully collect enough data to help us better understand the planet.

Jupiter is the god of all gods. He had so much power he gave his brothers powers. Jupiter was the most powerful thing in the world. He had two brothers, a dad that he overthrew, a wife, and a daughter.

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun and known as one of the "Gas Giants" of our solar system. Five years ago on August 5th, a spacecraft called Juno was sent out to reach Jupiter. Juno was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Scientists were hoping and waiting for a signal from Juno saying that it had made it to Jupiter safely. Finally, on July 4th scientists received signals saying it had made it safely and successfully.

Huge, striped, and marked by a unique giant red spot, Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and is much different from Earth. Incredibly enormous in size it would take 11 Earths combined to be the same size as Jupiter. Although it is much larger than Earth, Jupiter is void of a solid surface like the Earth. Being a gas giant planet, Jupiter consists mainly of hydrogen and helium compared to Earth’s nitrogen and oxygen. One complete orbit of Jupiter around the Sun is the same time Earth orbits the Sun 18 times.. One day on Jupiter is only 10 Earth hours, meaning that Jupiter rotates faster on its axis than the Earth. Even though Jupiter is so large compared to all of the other planets in the solar system, it is still too small

Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System. The larger ones have also been called planetoids. These terms have historically been applied to any astronomical object orbiting the Sun that did not show the disc of a planet and was not observed to have the characteristics of an active comet. As minor planets in the outer Solar System were discovered and found to have volatile-based surfaces that resemble those of comets, they were often distinguished from asteroids of the asteroid belt. In this article, the term "asteroid" refers to the minor planets of the inner Solar System including those co-orbital with Jupiter.

Ganymede is the largest and most massive moon of Jupiter and in the Solar System

Jupiter is a gas planet formed more quickly than the terrestrial planets so the atmospheres are more lighter.

Navigation has always played a key role in all aspects of human life. Although modern technology has simplified travel and airplanes are used constantly, ships continue to be an important part of trade and military systems today. This was especially the case around the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Colonialism was built on navigation and whoever held the greatest naval power could gain the greatest control. However, because of the difficulties that came from calculating location while at sea, navigation became the greatest scientific challenge in the age of sailing.

How would you feel if you found out that Jupiter is more than just a planet for Earth? Jupiter is Earth’s gas protector. It protects Earth from incoming comets by breaking them apart with its enormous gravity. Jupiter’s gravity is 2.4 times stronger than Earth’s gravity. (The world book encyclopedia of science). In the past, Jupiter has torn apart comets and sucked them into its atmosphere. Comet SHOEMAKER-LEVY in 1994 was coming straight for Earth until Jupiter intercepted its path and with its immense gravity tore apart the comet coming from the very cold parts of the galaxy and then sucked in the small pieces of the comet with the power of a thousand one-megaton H-bombs. Jupiter has destroyed many comets before SHOEMAKER-LEVY but SHOEMAKER-LEVY

Jupiter's is composed of hydrogen and helium. As compared to planetary bodies of Earth covered with a hard surface crust there is no jovian surface. There is the cloud tops beneath a transparent, mostly hydrogen upper atmosphere. Below the cloud layers, the clear atmosphere is denser and warmer and slowly converts from a gas to a liquid without a sharp boundary to show the change. The planet core is consist of iron-nickel alloy and materials with the composition of rock, etc., at a temperature estimated to exceed 20,000 degrees Celsius

The Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud objects are remnants of the formation of the solar system. According the the Nice model, the Kuiper belt was once closer to the Sun and much more dense, but was pushed outward by the Jovian planets massive gravitation pull. The Oort Cloud formed, supposedly, from the Jovian planets' gravity as well, because objects and debris that was close enough to the planets were flung outside of the solar system, far enough away from the influence of their gravity. Once these objects are far enough away, their orbit continued around the Sun. Both were made from the original debris in the cloud that formed our solar system.