Sbcc astronomy Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Kuiper belt Object (KBO) - A small body made of ice and rock that orbits beyond Neptune's orbit, in the Kuiper Belt. Exoplanet - a planet that orbits a star outside the solar system dwarf planet - Pluto (has 5 moons in KBO) Eris (has 5 moons) Ceres (in asteroid belt) asteroid belt - the region of the solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, where many asteroids are found Kuiper belt - A region of the solar system that is just beyond the orbit of Neptune and that contains sm...

Trojan asteroids - orbit ahead and behind jupiter Which of the following would you expect to differ significantly between a long-period comet and an asteroid? - distance at aphelion, albedo at perihelion, distance between the point of origin and the Sun, inclination of orbit A surge in a crowd is an example of what kind of wave? - P-Wave Evidence for plate tectonics - matching fossils in different landmasses, the shapes of the continents, convection in the mantle, observed motion of the co...