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Possible Projects hot topics Messenger results Curiosity results Dawn results Cassini results outstanding objects Jovian moons edge of the Solar System (KBOs/SDOs) comet chemistry planet formation the “Nice Model” disks and timescales in Solar System formation exoplanet statistics life in the Solar System organisms on Mars human mission to Mars humans in space observing or database project … INDEPENDENT AND NEW
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2 Asteroids Ceres Vesta Eros Itokawa
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Asteroids semimajor axis Trojans Earth has 1 Mars has 6 + Jupiter has 5221 + 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
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Asteroids eccentricity
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Asteroids inclination
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Planetary Sciences
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Outer S.S.2015 Plutinos/KBOs Pluto Quaoar Ixion Varuna Orcus Centaurs/SDOs Chiron Sedna Nessus Asbolus Eris Comets 1P Halley 2P Encke
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Planetary Sciences24 TNOs/SDOs and Friends Hydra Nix Styx Kerberos
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Planetary Sciences25 The Pluto System: 2011 Hydra Nix
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The Pluto System: 2012 dist X 2
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Planetary Sciences The Outer Limits PAPER TOPIC: Where is the Oort Cloud really?
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Disk: Protostellar or Debris?
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Fomalhaut Planet background star movie
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