Life Sustaining What’s needed of stars? Stablility
Worthless Stars
Unstable
Life Sustaining What’s needed for stars? Stablility Long Life
Worthless Stars Unstable Short Life
Too Hot Too Cold Life Zone
Life Zone Life Zone Too Close Tidal Lock One Side Hot Other Side Cold One Side Baked Dry Other Side Glaciers Thin Atmosphere
Life Sustaining What’s needed for stars? Stablility Long Life Life Zone Far From Star
Worthless Stars Unstable Short Life Life Zone Too Close
H2H2 He CH 4 NH 3 H2OH2O N2N2 O2O2 CO Average Speeds at Room Temperature
Jupiter Earth Venus Neptune Uranus Saturn H2H2 He CH 4 NH 3 H 2 O Holding an Atmosphere
Earth Venus Mars Titan Mercury CH 4 NH 3 H 2 O N 2 O 2 CO 2 H2H2 He Holding an Atmosphere
Titan Mercury Moon Ceres Pluto Triton CH 4 NH 3 H 2 O N 2 O 2 CO 2 Holding an Atmosphere
Making Contact seeds of life evolution civilization technology
Two Types of Planets Terrestrial Meteor Craters / Erosion Smaller Jovian Only Clouds Visible Much Bigger Wed 9:20
Jovians are Bigger
Two Types of Planets Terrestrial Meteor Craters / Erosion Smaller Rocky High Density Jovian Only Clouds Visible Much Bigger Mostly Gas Low Density
Terrestrials are more Dense
Two Types of Planets Terrestrial Meteor Craters / Erosion Smaller Rocky High Density Low Mass Jovian Only Clouds Visible Much Bigger Mostly Gas Low Density High Mass
Jovians are more Massive
Two Types of Planets Terrestrial Meteor Craters / Erosion Smaller Rocky High Density Low Mass Few Moons Jovian Only Clouds Visible Much Bigger Mostly Gas Low Density High Mass Many Moons
Jovians have more Moons
Two Types of Planets Terrestrial Meteor Craters / Erosion Smaller Rocky High Density Low Mass Few Moons No Rings Jovian Only Clouds Visible Much Bigger Mostly Gas Low Density High Mass Many Moons Rings
Jovians are farther from the sun.
What About Pluto?
collapse to disk gravity centrifugal effect
Accretion Process by Which Many Little Things Become Fewer, Bigger Things Condensation Cold Weld
Tues 12:15
Accretion Gravity Planetesimals Jovian Atmospheres
sweeps up dust while orbiting collisions slow orbit spirals in protosun becomes sun solar wind clears dust planetesimals exposed to heat and solar wind formation limited no more dust
dust free zone expands atmosphere reaches escape velocity solar wind blows away atmosphere planetesimal exposed to heat and solar wind jovian planet becomes terrestrial orbit stabilizes
H2H2 He CH 4 NH 3 H2OH2O N2N2 O2O2 CO Average Speeds at Room Temperature
Jupiter Earth Venus Neptune Uranus Saturn H2H2 He CH 4 NH 3 H 2 O Holding an Atmosphere
bombardment melts surface heats impact site
Making Terrestrials Solar Wind Loss of Atmosphere Bombardment Fission Differentiation
New Atmosphere Bombardment Slows Surface Hardens Molten Interior Fission Gas Outgassing CO 2 N 2 SO 2 O2O2
fission outgassing
Earth Venus Mars Titan Mercury CH 4 NH 3 H 2 O N 2 O 2 CO 2 H2H2 He Holding an Atmosphere
Titan Mercury Moon Ceres Pluto Triton CH 4 NH 3 H 2 O N 2 O 2 CO 2 Holding an Atmosphere
Moon Origin Fission Coformation Capture Impact
Fission Moon and Earth split Why?
Coformation Moon and Earth formed simultaneously as Binary Planet Why is the density different? 5.5g/cm 3 3.3g/cm 3
Capture Earth and moon formed far apart passed close Earth captured moon unlikely events required inclination likely to be high
Impact
Sunlight bombards planet. With the right temperature, clouds form from water vapor. Clouds reflect sunlight, lowering temperature. The lower temperature causes more clouds to form.
UV CO 2 N 2 carbon based life plant life photosynthesis limestone rises saturated oxidizes O2O2 O 2 23%76% 2 O 3 3 UV ozone Wave action dissolves CO 2 in ocean.