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Asteroids semimajor axis Trojans Earth has 1 Mars has 6 + Jupiter has Neptune has 7 + ?! Hildas

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Absolute Magnitude = H V magnitude if 1 AU from Earth and 1 AU from Sun while having phase angle of 0 degrees (an impossible scenario) H = 16 means diameter of 2-4 km

Asteroids eccentricity

Asteroids inclination

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Planetary Sciences13 ASTEROIDS green dots: “normal” m.p. red dots: < 1.3 AU periastron filled: > 1 opposition obs. blue dots: Jupiter Trojans COMETS solid blue sqr: numbered open blue sqr: others Inner S.S. 2009

Planetary Sciences14 ASTEROIDS green dots: “normal” m.p. red dots: < 1.3 AU periastron filled: > 1 opposition obs. blue dots: Jupiter Trojans COMETS solid blue sqr: numbered open blue sqr: others Inner S.S. 2012

Planetary Sciences15 ASTEROIDS green dots: “normal” m.p. red dots: < 1.3 AU periastron filled: > 1 opposition obs. blue dots: Jupiter Trojans COMETS solid blue sqr: numbered open blue sqr: others Inner S.S. 2015

Planetary Sciences16 ASTEROIDS green dots: “normal” m.p. red dots: < 1.3 AU periastron filled: > 1 opposition obs. blue dots: Jupiter Trojans COMETS solid blue sqr: numbered open blue sqr: others Zoom-in 2009

Planetary Sciences17 ASTEROIDS green dots: “normal” m.p. red dots: < 1.3 AU periastron filled: > 1 opposition obs. blue dots: Jupiter Trojans COMETS solid blue sqr: numbered open blue sqr: others Zoom-in 2012

Planetary Sciences18 ASTEROIDS green dots: “normal” m.p. red dots: < 1.3 AU periastron filled: > 1 opposition obs. blue dots: Jupiter Trojans COMETS solid blue sqr: numbered open blue sqr: others Zoom-in 2015

Planetary Sciences19 TNOs red: classical KBOs white: Plutinos magenta: scattered disk orange tri: Centaurs cyan tri: “unusual” COMETS solid blue sqr: numbered open blue squ: others Outer S.S.2003

Planetary Sciences20 Outer S.S.2009 TNOs red: classical KBOs white: Plutinos magenta: scattered disk orange tri: Centaurs cyan tri: “unusual” COMETS solid blue sqr: numbered open blue squ: others

Planetary Sciences21 Outer S.S.2012 TNOs red: classical KBOs white: Plutinos magenta: scattered disk orange tri: Centaurs cyan tri: “unusual” COMETS solid blue sqr: numbered open blue squ: others

Outer S.S.2015 TNOs red: classical KBOs white: Plutinos magenta: scattered disk orange tri: Centaurs cyan tri: “unusual” COMETS solid blue sqr: numbered open blue squ: others

Outer S.S.2015 Plutinos/KBOs Pluto Quaoar Ixion Varuna Orcus Centaurs/SDOs Chiron Sedna Nessus Asbolus Eris Comets 1P Halley 2P Encke

Planetary Sciences24 TNOs/SDOs and Friends Hydra Nix Styx Kerberos

Planetary Sciences25 The Pluto System: 2011 Hydra Nix

The Pluto System: 2012 dist X 2

Planetary Sciences The Outer Limits PAPER TOPIC: Where is the Oort Cloud really?

Disk: Protostellar or Debris?

Fomalhaut Planet background star movie

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