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Life Beyond Neptune: The Kuiper Belt & Scattered Disc
The solar system is enormous, and includes the Kuiper Belt and the Scattered Disc, both of which turn out to be really weird in some pretty awesome ways.
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published: 12 Dec 2017
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Planets V7.12 Scattered Disk
The scattered disk and detached TNOs.
published: 15 Jun 2022
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The Oort Cloud: The Solar System's Shell
What lies at the edge of the Solar System? Far beyond the orbit of Neptune and the Kuiper Belt, deep into interstellar space, we find a vast, thick shell of icy space debris. We have never seen it directly, but we know it exists- because it is the source of the most distant comets that we see entering the Solar System. So why is it there? Today we'll find out, in a new episode of #OOTW
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published: 16 Oct 2020
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In the Scattered Disc (Video)
The Scattered Disc is a region of space on the outskirts of our solar system populated by icy objects in eccentric orbit - not sure it's had a tune created for it before.....
A strange thing to write about, but the lyrics are earthbound, real life collisions like the asteroids whooshing past your ears.
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published: 29 Dec 2021
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What Is The Oort Cloud?
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Looking at where we are now. With our back to the sun, and the Planets, Asteroids and comets behind us, we face Deep Space. There’s nothing between us and the stars that are very far away. Or is there? The Empty space beyond Neptune is not empty. What if we tell you that the Solar system is in the centre of a Giant ice-cloud! This cloud might be filled with billions and trillions of comets and other objects. What is the Oort Cloud?
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published: 26 Dec 2015
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The Oort Cloud: Crash Course Astronomy #22
Now that we’re done with the planets, asteroid belt, and comets, we’re heading to the outskirts of the solar system. Out past Neptune are vast reservoirs of icy bodies that can become comets if they get poked into the inner solar system. The Kuiper Belt is a donut shape aligned with the plane of the solar system; the scattered disk is more eccentric and is the source of short-period comets, and the Oort Cloud which surrounds the solar system out to great distances is the source of long-period comets. These bodies all probably formed closer to the Sun and got flung out to the solar system’s suburbs by gravitational interactions with the outer planets.
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published: 26 Jun 2015
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Colonizing the Kuiper Belt
We often discuss our future in the Asteroid Belt, and the glorious civilizations we might one day build there. However, it is but a pale shadow of its larger twin, the Kuiper Belt, out at the edge of the solar system.
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Scattered Disc: A Region of Icy Objects Beyond the Kuiper Belt
The scattered disc is a region of the outer Solar System that is home to a population of small icy bodies known as scattered disc objects (SDOs). It is located beyond the Kuiper Belt, extending much farther from the Sun. SDOs are considered to be part of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs).
The scattered disc was first proposed in the late 1990s as a reservoir of objects that could be the source of certain types of comets. These objects have highly elliptical and inclined orbits, with perihelia (closest points to the Sun) that can bring them relatively close to the Sun. The gravitational influence of the giant planets, particularly Neptune, is believed to have scattered these objects from their original orbits in the Kuiper Belt to their current locations.
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published: 13 Jul 2023
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published: 19 Dec 2021
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Life Beyond Neptune: The Kuiper Belt & Scattered Disc
The solar system is enormous, and includes the Kuiper Belt and the Scattered Disc, both of which turn out to be really weird in some pretty awesome ways.
We wa...
The solar system is enormous, and includes the Kuiper Belt and the Scattered Disc, both of which turn out to be really weird in some pretty awesome ways.
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http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Participate/learn/What-We-Know.php?link=The-Kuiper-Belt
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/kbos/indepth
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v362/n6422/abs/362730a0.html?foxtrotcallback=true
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/features/cosmic/solar_system_info.html
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-reveals-pluto-s-atmospheric-pressure-has-sharply-decreased
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/PI-Perspectives.php?page=piPerspective_08_08_2017
https://www.space.com/34066-pluto-moon-charon-red-spot-source.html
https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v522/n7554/full/nature14469.html
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/oort/indepth
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http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast161/Unit4/dance.html
Images:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA17046_-_Voyager_1_Goes_Interstellar.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Astronomical_unit.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lhborbits.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kuiper_belt_-_Oort_cloud-en.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_impression_dwarf_planet_Eris.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eris_Orbit.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EightTNOs.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto-FlyoverAnimation-20150918.webm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Haumea_rotation_with_ring.gif
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Neptune_Full.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto-01_Stern_03_Pluto_Color_TXT.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto-BlueSkyFinal_PIA21590.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:14-281-KuiperBeltObject-ArtistsConcept-20141015.jpg
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1400/interstellar-crossing-the-cosmic-void/
https://wn.com/Life_Beyond_Neptune_The_Kuiper_Belt_Scattered_Disc
The solar system is enormous, and includes the Kuiper Belt and the Scattered Disc, both of which turn out to be really weird in some pretty awesome ways.
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Sources:
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Participate/learn/What-We-Know.php?link=The-Kuiper-Belt
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/kbos/indepth
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v362/n6422/abs/362730a0.html?foxtrotcallback=true
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/features/cosmic/solar_system_info.html
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/new-horizons-reveals-pluto-s-atmospheric-pressure-has-sharply-decreased
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/PI-Perspectives.php?page=piPerspective_08_08_2017
https://www.space.com/34066-pluto-moon-charon-red-spot-source.html
https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v522/n7554/full/nature14469.html
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/oort/indepth
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8205/819/2/L38/pdf
http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast161/Unit4/dance.html
Images:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA17046_-_Voyager_1_Goes_Interstellar.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Astronomical_unit.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lhborbits.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kuiper_belt_-_Oort_cloud-en.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_impression_dwarf_planet_Eris.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eris_Orbit.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EightTNOs.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto-FlyoverAnimation-20150918.webm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Haumea_rotation_with_ring.gif
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Neptune_Full.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto-01_Stern_03_Pluto_Color_TXT.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto-BlueSkyFinal_PIA21590.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:14-281-KuiperBeltObject-ArtistsConcept-20141015.jpg
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1400/interstellar-crossing-the-cosmic-void/
- published: 12 Dec 2017
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The Oort Cloud: The Solar System's Shell
What lies at the edge of the Solar System? Far beyond the orbit of Neptune and the Kuiper Belt, deep into interstellar space, we find a vast, thick shell of icy...
What lies at the edge of the Solar System? Far beyond the orbit of Neptune and the Kuiper Belt, deep into interstellar space, we find a vast, thick shell of icy space debris. We have never seen it directly, but we know it exists- because it is the source of the most distant comets that we see entering the Solar System. So why is it there? Today we'll find out, in a new episode of #OOTW
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- An Excuse To Do Less | pATCHES
- The Three Elements | I Think I Can Help You
- Clouded | Public Memory
- Ammil | The Tides
- Dusk | DivKid
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Universe Sandbox: http://universesandbox.com/
Other Videos:
- Voyager-1 Launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LoWEncvTLQ&t
- Oort Cloud Shell Image (Creative Commons): https://www.rocketstem.org/2020/01/11/ice-and-stone-special-topic-03/
- Timelapse of Comet Lovejoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D2tdjiE9PQ
- NASA Planetary Disc Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNOb3xrjOhE
- Estuary Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrYQFdukGMg
- How Big is the Milky Way Graphic | NASA (Creative Commons): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX3PIkbTQwQ
- Observatory Footage from ESA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwDJIT8Ucpo
SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
- Oort Cloud In Depth [NASA]: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/oort-cloud/in-depth/
- Oort Cloud Contents and Structure: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512256
- Oort Cloud Facts: https://space-facts.com/oort-cloud/
- Kuiper Belt: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/kuiper-belt/overview/
- Sedna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90377_Sedna
- Siding Spring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2013_A1_(Siding_Spring)
- Hale Bopp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Hale%E2%80%93Bopp
- Lovejoy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2011_W3_(Lovejoy)
- TAU Spacecraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAU_(spacecraft)
- Whipple Mission: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015DPS....4731207A/abstract
- Extrasolar Oort Clouds: https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2012/08/interstellar-comets
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction
2:01 The Oort Cloud
5:18 The Scale of the Cloud
6:47 Formation of the Oort Cloud
9:33 The Source of All Comets
13:17 The Hills Cloud
14:40 Sedna
16:12 The Outer Oort Cloud
17:13 Siding Spring, Hale Bopp, Lovejoy
19:20 Future Missions to the Oort Cloud
21:46 Extra-solar Oort Clouds
https://wn.com/The_Oort_Cloud_The_Solar_System's_Shell
What lies at the edge of the Solar System? Far beyond the orbit of Neptune and the Kuiper Belt, deep into interstellar space, we find a vast, thick shell of icy space debris. We have never seen it directly, but we know it exists- because it is the source of the most distant comets that we see entering the Solar System. So why is it there? Today we'll find out, in a new episode of #OOTW
You can now support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sea_media
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Alternatively, you can become a channel member through YouTube: https://youtube.com/seaMedia/join
All support is hugely appreciated and helps me in my full-time job of creating these videos!
Do you use these videos to sleep or for night time watching? Check out the new sleeping space playlist, a collection of my most chilled out and ambient videos.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkoaIad9k4NIlsG6g-almaZH6MzR_T5eV
MUSIC:
All music in this video was downloaded from the YouTube Audio Library.
- The Six Realms | I Think I Can Help You
- Those Things Are More Fun With Other People | pATCHES
- Tides | Windows of Ken
- An Excuse To Do Less | pATCHES
- The Three Elements | I Think I Can Help You
- Clouded | Public Memory
- Ammil | The Tides
- Dusk | DivKid
- Growing Space | Astron
- Interplanetary Alignment | NoMBe
FOOTAGE:
The scenes in this video were captured using SpaceEngine Pro, a virtual universe simulator:
http://spaceengine.org/
Get SpaceEngine on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/314650/SpaceEngine/
Some scenes were captured using Universe Sandbox
Oort Cloud Simulation: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1557659633
Universe Sandbox: http://universesandbox.com/
Other Videos:
- Voyager-1 Launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LoWEncvTLQ&t
- Oort Cloud Shell Image (Creative Commons): https://www.rocketstem.org/2020/01/11/ice-and-stone-special-topic-03/
- Timelapse of Comet Lovejoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D2tdjiE9PQ
- NASA Planetary Disc Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNOb3xrjOhE
- Estuary Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrYQFdukGMg
- How Big is the Milky Way Graphic | NASA (Creative Commons): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX3PIkbTQwQ
- Observatory Footage from ESA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwDJIT8Ucpo
SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
- Oort Cloud In Depth [NASA]: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/oort-cloud/in-depth/
- Oort Cloud Contents and Structure: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512256
- Oort Cloud Facts: https://space-facts.com/oort-cloud/
- Kuiper Belt: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/kuiper-belt/overview/
- Sedna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90377_Sedna
- Siding Spring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2013_A1_(Siding_Spring)
- Hale Bopp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Hale%E2%80%93Bopp
- Lovejoy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2011_W3_(Lovejoy)
- TAU Spacecraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAU_(spacecraft)
- Whipple Mission: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015DPS....4731207A/abstract
- Extrasolar Oort Clouds: https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2012/08/interstellar-comets
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction
2:01 The Oort Cloud
5:18 The Scale of the Cloud
6:47 Formation of the Oort Cloud
9:33 The Source of All Comets
13:17 The Hills Cloud
14:40 Sedna
16:12 The Outer Oort Cloud
17:13 Siding Spring, Hale Bopp, Lovejoy
19:20 Future Missions to the Oort Cloud
21:46 Extra-solar Oort Clouds
- published: 16 Oct 2020
- views: 2264406
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In the Scattered Disc (Video)
The Scattered Disc is a region of space on the outskirts of our solar system populated by icy objects in eccentric orbit - not sure it's had a tune created for ...
The Scattered Disc is a region of space on the outskirts of our solar system populated by icy objects in eccentric orbit - not sure it's had a tune created for it before.....
A strange thing to write about, but the lyrics are earthbound, real life collisions like the asteroids whooshing past your ears.
https://bootpalacemusic.com/
#bootpalace #postrock
https://wn.com/In_The_Scattered_Disc_(Video)
The Scattered Disc is a region of space on the outskirts of our solar system populated by icy objects in eccentric orbit - not sure it's had a tune created for it before.....
A strange thing to write about, but the lyrics are earthbound, real life collisions like the asteroids whooshing past your ears.
https://bootpalacemusic.com/
#bootpalace #postrock
- published: 29 Dec 2021
- views: 174
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What Is The Oort Cloud?
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Looking at where we are now. With our back to the sun, and the Planets, Asteroids and comets behind us, we face Deep Space. There’s nothing between us and the stars that are very far away. Or is there? The Empty space beyond Neptune is not empty. What if we tell you that the Solar system is in the centre of a Giant ice-cloud! This cloud might be filled with billions and trillions of comets and other objects. What is the Oort Cloud?
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Before talking about this cloud, let’s talk about what are comets? Comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rocks and dust, orbiting the sun. They are typically the size of a town.These comets while orbiting the sun, get close to it and in the process are heated. Upon heating, they emit dust and gases into a giant glowing head. The dust and gases form a tail that stretches away from these for millions of miles. There are two main classes of comets : Short-period comets (also called elliptical comets) and long period comets. Short period comets are generally accepted to have emerged from either the Kuiper belt or the Scattered Disc which are two linked flat discs of icy debris beyond Neptune’s orbit at 30 au and jointly extending out beyond 100 au from the Sun. Short period comets have an orbital period of less than 200 years and orbit the Sun in the same plane as the planets. Long period comets have tilted and wildly elliptical orbits and appear from every direction in the sky. Their orbits last for thousands of years. The orbits of comets within the Kuiper belt are relatively stable, and so very few comets are thought to originate there.
But there is a problem here. Comets loose material and burn up when they fly by the sun and melt in the spectacular process which creates those gorgeous tails. After an interval of time comets disappear, and yet new comets keep coming. It's been nearly 4.5 Billion years to our solar systems birth and yet these comets are still appearing from nowhere. So where are they coming from? And what makes them come toward us? This was a very puzzling question back in the mid- 20th century. It was first theorised and solved by Dutch Astronomer, Jan Oort in 1950. He was also the first person to find the evidence for dark matter. He also found the distance of our Solar System from the Centre of our Milky Way. To understand what he proposed, lets go a bit back in time, about 4.5 Billion years back. Lets Observe our solar system, coalescing out of a flat disk of material around the sun, the inner planets were warmer, smaller and rocky while the outer planets were in a region that was freezing and grew huge. As this part of the solar system was chillier, water came in the form of ice mixed with dust and other stuffs. These pieces would then collide and stick together, and in the process they grew bigger. So, after the planets formed, the region in which they were formed still contained lots of these leftover chunks of ice and stuff called Planetesimals. Planetesimals formed the same material as the planets did. But those outer Jovian planets, they had a lot of gravity and any piece of chunk that got too close to them, were either assimilated in them or got thrown into highly eccentric orbits. They were either thrown towards the sun or flung out into Deep Space. Trillions upon trillions of such ice balls got tossed around by the planets. These small chunks with a very little gravity pulled on the heavy planets and the planets did the same. Though, the gravitational pull of these small chunks of ice was not much, but after trillions of these encounters, it accounted. So, the overall effect of all these encounters was that the Saturn, Uranus and Neptune moved outwards and Jupiter moved Inwards. As Neptune was moving outwards, it had a lot of encounters with these ice chunks and flung them into wild elliptical and tilted orbits. This shuffling and moving of the outer planets is what caused the Late Heavy Bombardment in our solar system.Today, there are three distinct populations of these objects. One is a region called the Kuiper belt, named after the Dutch Astronomer Gerard Kuiper. Comets in this belt have a stable orbit aligned with the planets.
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Looking at where we are now. With our back to the sun, and the Planets, Asteroids and comets behind us, we face Deep Space. There’s nothing between us and the stars that are very far away. Or is there? The Empty space beyond Neptune is not empty. What if we tell you that the Solar system is in the centre of a Giant ice-cloud! This cloud might be filled with billions and trillions of comets and other objects. What is the Oort Cloud?
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Before talking about this cloud, let’s talk about what are comets? Comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rocks and dust, orbiting the sun. They are typically the size of a town.These comets while orbiting the sun, get close to it and in the process are heated. Upon heating, they emit dust and gases into a giant glowing head. The dust and gases form a tail that stretches away from these for millions of miles. There are two main classes of comets : Short-period comets (also called elliptical comets) and long period comets. Short period comets are generally accepted to have emerged from either the Kuiper belt or the Scattered Disc which are two linked flat discs of icy debris beyond Neptune’s orbit at 30 au and jointly extending out beyond 100 au from the Sun. Short period comets have an orbital period of less than 200 years and orbit the Sun in the same plane as the planets. Long period comets have tilted and wildly elliptical orbits and appear from every direction in the sky. Their orbits last for thousands of years. The orbits of comets within the Kuiper belt are relatively stable, and so very few comets are thought to originate there.
But there is a problem here. Comets loose material and burn up when they fly by the sun and melt in the spectacular process which creates those gorgeous tails. After an interval of time comets disappear, and yet new comets keep coming. It's been nearly 4.5 Billion years to our solar systems birth and yet these comets are still appearing from nowhere. So where are they coming from? And what makes them come toward us? This was a very puzzling question back in the mid- 20th century. It was first theorised and solved by Dutch Astronomer, Jan Oort in 1950. He was also the first person to find the evidence for dark matter. He also found the distance of our Solar System from the Centre of our Milky Way. To understand what he proposed, lets go a bit back in time, about 4.5 Billion years back. Lets Observe our solar system, coalescing out of a flat disk of material around the sun, the inner planets were warmer, smaller and rocky while the outer planets were in a region that was freezing and grew huge. As this part of the solar system was chillier, water came in the form of ice mixed with dust and other stuffs. These pieces would then collide and stick together, and in the process they grew bigger. So, after the planets formed, the region in which they were formed still contained lots of these leftover chunks of ice and stuff called Planetesimals. Planetesimals formed the same material as the planets did. But those outer Jovian planets, they had a lot of gravity and any piece of chunk that got too close to them, were either assimilated in them or got thrown into highly eccentric orbits. They were either thrown towards the sun or flung out into Deep Space. Trillions upon trillions of such ice balls got tossed around by the planets. These small chunks with a very little gravity pulled on the heavy planets and the planets did the same. Though, the gravitational pull of these small chunks of ice was not much, but after trillions of these encounters, it accounted. So, the overall effect of all these encounters was that the Saturn, Uranus and Neptune moved outwards and Jupiter moved Inwards. As Neptune was moving outwards, it had a lot of encounters with these ice chunks and flung them into wild elliptical and tilted orbits. This shuffling and moving of the outer planets is what caused the Late Heavy Bombardment in our solar system.Today, there are three distinct populations of these objects. One is a region called the Kuiper belt, named after the Dutch Astronomer Gerard Kuiper. Comets in this belt have a stable orbit aligned with the planets.
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- published: 17 Jun 2020
- views: 118373
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FLEXAGON - The scattered disc
ॐ Progressive --- Self released 2015
video credits by Brandon Giesbrecht
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpFmRYXiK3ch5RA7EQXn6Kw
https://www.facebook.com/br...
ॐ Progressive --- Self released 2015
video credits by Brandon Giesbrecht
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpFmRYXiK3ch5RA7EQXn6Kw
https://www.facebook.com/brandonfotografia
music by https://flexagon.bandcamp.com/album/helios
https://wn.com/Flexagon_The_Scattered_Disc
ॐ Progressive --- Self released 2015
video credits by Brandon Giesbrecht
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpFmRYXiK3ch5RA7EQXn6Kw
https://www.facebook.com/brandonfotografia
music by https://flexagon.bandcamp.com/album/helios
- published: 26 Dec 2015
- views: 4195
11:41
The Oort Cloud: Crash Course Astronomy #22
Now that we’re done with the planets, asteroid belt, and comets, we’re heading to the outskirts of the solar system. Out past Neptune are vast reservoirs of icy...
Now that we’re done with the planets, asteroid belt, and comets, we’re heading to the outskirts of the solar system. Out past Neptune are vast reservoirs of icy bodies that can become comets if they get poked into the inner solar system. The Kuiper Belt is a donut shape aligned with the plane of the solar system; the scattered disk is more eccentric and is the source of short-period comets, and the Oort Cloud which surrounds the solar system out to great distances is the source of long-period comets. These bodies all probably formed closer to the Sun and got flung out to the solar system’s suburbs by gravitational interactions with the outer planets.
Check out the Crash Course Astronomy solar system poster here: http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-astronomy-poster
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Chapters:
Introduction: Where Do Comets Come From? 00:00
Kuiper Belt, Scattered Disk, and Oort Cloud 2:52
Long-Period Comets come from the Oort Cloud 4:03
Short-Period Comets come from the Scattered Disk 4:27
Pluto, Plutinos, and other Kuiper Belt Objects 4:47
Oort Cloud Objects 8:25
Review 10:38
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PHOTOS/VIDEOS
HD Long Exposure Star Timelapse https://vimeo.com/34172172 [credit: Jeffrey Beach, Beachfront B-Roll]
Fine Structure in the Comet’s Jets http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/01/16/fine-structure-in-the-comets-jets/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoplanetary_disk#mediaviewer/File:Artist%E2%80%99s_Impression_of_a_Baby_Star_Still_Surrounded_by_a_Protoplanetary_Disc.jpg [credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA]
Artist's impression of a protoplanetary disk. [credit: ESO/L. Calçada - ESO]
Creating Gas Giants http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11541 [credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center]
What is a Sungrazing Comet? http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11307 [credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center]
Pluto/Neptune Orbit http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/files/images/browse/plutoneptune.gif [credit: NASA]
1992 QB1 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/1992_QB14.jpg [credit: ESO]
Eris http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060918.html [credit: W. M. Keck Observatory]
Moons of Pluto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(moon)#/media/File:Moons_of_Pluto.png [credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI institute)]
New Horizons Approach http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/common/content/animations/New-Horizons-Voyage-to-Pluto/ApproachingPluto1280.mp4 [credit: JHUAPL]
Moon http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003894/phase04_full.jpg [credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio]
Pluto http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?Category=Planets&IM_ID=20073 [credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute]
Sedna’s Orbit http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sedna-PIA05569-crop.jpg [credit: NASA]
Artist’s Conception of Kuiper Belt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:14-281-KuiperBeltObject-ArtistsConcept-20141015.jpg [credit: NASA, Wikimedia Commons]
Kuiper Belt World (video) http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/video/41 [credit: NASA Kepler Mission/Dana Berry]
Pluto Discovery Plates http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/singleitem/collection/loaselect/id/25/rec/1 [credit: Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory]
https://wn.com/The_Oort_Cloud_Crash_Course_Astronomy_22
Now that we’re done with the planets, asteroid belt, and comets, we’re heading to the outskirts of the solar system. Out past Neptune are vast reservoirs of icy bodies that can become comets if they get poked into the inner solar system. The Kuiper Belt is a donut shape aligned with the plane of the solar system; the scattered disk is more eccentric and is the source of short-period comets, and the Oort Cloud which surrounds the solar system out to great distances is the source of long-period comets. These bodies all probably formed closer to the Sun and got flung out to the solar system’s suburbs by gravitational interactions with the outer planets.
Check out the Crash Course Astronomy solar system poster here: http://store.dftba.com/products/crashcourse-astronomy-poster
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Chapters:
Introduction: Where Do Comets Come From? 00:00
Kuiper Belt, Scattered Disk, and Oort Cloud 2:52
Long-Period Comets come from the Oort Cloud 4:03
Short-Period Comets come from the Scattered Disk 4:27
Pluto, Plutinos, and other Kuiper Belt Objects 4:47
Oort Cloud Objects 8:25
Review 10:38
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PHOTOS/VIDEOS
HD Long Exposure Star Timelapse https://vimeo.com/34172172 [credit: Jeffrey Beach, Beachfront B-Roll]
Fine Structure in the Comet’s Jets http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/01/16/fine-structure-in-the-comets-jets/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoplanetary_disk#mediaviewer/File:Artist%E2%80%99s_Impression_of_a_Baby_Star_Still_Surrounded_by_a_Protoplanetary_Disc.jpg [credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA]
Artist's impression of a protoplanetary disk. [credit: ESO/L. Calçada - ESO]
Creating Gas Giants http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11541 [credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center]
What is a Sungrazing Comet? http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=11307 [credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center]
Pluto/Neptune Orbit http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/files/images/browse/plutoneptune.gif [credit: NASA]
1992 QB1 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/gallery/1992_QB14.jpg [credit: ESO]
Eris http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060918.html [credit: W. M. Keck Observatory]
Moons of Pluto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(moon)#/media/File:Moons_of_Pluto.png [credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Showalter (SETI institute)]
New Horizons Approach http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/common/content/animations/New-Horizons-Voyage-to-Pluto/ApproachingPluto1280.mp4 [credit: JHUAPL]
Moon http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a003894/phase04_full.jpg [credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio]
Pluto http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?Category=Planets&IM_ID=20073 [credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute]
Sedna’s Orbit http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sedna-PIA05569-crop.jpg [credit: NASA]
Artist’s Conception of Kuiper Belt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:14-281-KuiperBeltObject-ArtistsConcept-20141015.jpg [credit: NASA, Wikimedia Commons]
Kuiper Belt World (video) http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/video/41 [credit: NASA Kepler Mission/Dana Berry]
Pluto Discovery Plates http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/singleitem/collection/loaselect/id/25/rec/1 [credit: Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory]
- published: 26 Jun 2015
- views: 1941781
36:16
Colonizing the Kuiper Belt
We often discuss our future in the Asteroid Belt, and the glorious civilizations we might one day build there. However, it is but a pale shadow of its larger tw...
We often discuss our future in the Asteroid Belt, and the glorious civilizations we might one day build there. However, it is but a pale shadow of its larger twin, the Kuiper Belt, out at the edge of the solar system.
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Outward Bound: Colonizing the Kuiper Belt
Episode 397, June 1, 2023
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Editors:
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https://wn.com/Colonizing_The_Kuiper_Belt
We often discuss our future in the Asteroid Belt, and the glorious civilizations we might one day build there. However, it is but a pale shadow of its larger twin, the Kuiper Belt, out at the edge of the solar system.
Go to https://brilliant.org/IsaacArthur/ to get a 30-day free trial + the first 200 people will get 20% off their annual subscription.
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Credits:
Outward Bound: Colonizing the Kuiper Belt
Episode 397, June 1, 2023
Produced, Written & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur
Editors:
David McFarlane
Graphics by:
Bryan Versteeg
Jeremy Jozwik
Ken York
Kristijan Tavcar
Sergio Botero
Music Courtesy of:
Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Markus Junnikkala, "Hail The Victorious Dead", "A Memory of Earth"
Stellardrone, "Red Giant", "Ultra Deep Field"
Sergey Cheremisinov, "Labyrinth", "Forgotten Stars"
Taras Harkavyi, "Alpha and..."
- published: 01 Jun 2023
- views: 284033
0:10
Scattered Disc: A Region of Icy Objects Beyond the Kuiper Belt
The scattered disc is a region of the outer Solar System that is home to a population of small icy bodies known as scattered disc objects (SDOs). It is located ...
The scattered disc is a region of the outer Solar System that is home to a population of small icy bodies known as scattered disc objects (SDOs). It is located beyond the Kuiper Belt, extending much farther from the Sun. SDOs are considered to be part of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs).
The scattered disc was first proposed in the late 1990s as a reservoir of objects that could be the source of certain types of comets. These objects have highly elliptical and inclined orbits, with perihelia (closest points to the Sun) that can bring them relatively close to the Sun. The gravitational influence of the giant planets, particularly Neptune, is believed to have scattered these objects from their original orbits in the Kuiper Belt to their current locations.
The scattered disc is believed to contain a large number of SDOs, ranging in size from several kilometers to hundreds of kilometers in diameter. Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is located in the scattered disc. Other notable SDOs include Sedna, Orcus, and Quaoar.
The discovery and study of objects in the scattered disc have provided valuable insights into the formation and evolution of the Solar System. By studying their orbits and compositions, scientists can gain a better understanding of the early dynamics of the Solar System and the processes that led to the current distribution of objects.
It's worth noting that the understanding of the scattered disc is an active area of research, and new discoveries and findings continue to emerge as scientists gather more data and refine their models.
https://wn.com/Scattered_Disc_A_Region_Of_Icy_Objects_Beyond_The_Kuiper_Belt
The scattered disc is a region of the outer Solar System that is home to a population of small icy bodies known as scattered disc objects (SDOs). It is located beyond the Kuiper Belt, extending much farther from the Sun. SDOs are considered to be part of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs).
The scattered disc was first proposed in the late 1990s as a reservoir of objects that could be the source of certain types of comets. These objects have highly elliptical and inclined orbits, with perihelia (closest points to the Sun) that can bring them relatively close to the Sun. The gravitational influence of the giant planets, particularly Neptune, is believed to have scattered these objects from their original orbits in the Kuiper Belt to their current locations.
The scattered disc is believed to contain a large number of SDOs, ranging in size from several kilometers to hundreds of kilometers in diameter. Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is located in the scattered disc. Other notable SDOs include Sedna, Orcus, and Quaoar.
The discovery and study of objects in the scattered disc have provided valuable insights into the formation and evolution of the Solar System. By studying their orbits and compositions, scientists can gain a better understanding of the early dynamics of the Solar System and the processes that led to the current distribution of objects.
It's worth noting that the understanding of the scattered disc is an active area of research, and new discoveries and findings continue to emerge as scientists gather more data and refine their models.
- published: 13 Jul 2023
- views: 23
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Scattered Disc
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- published: 19 Dec 2021
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