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Page 1: The$Outer$Planets$ - University of Washingtonearthweb.ess.washington.edu/ess-102/FALL12/Lecture11... · 2012-10-17 · All bodies are to scale except for Pan, Atlas, Telesto, Calypso,

The  Outer  Planets  

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Jupiter  in  a  nutshell  

•  Orbital  distance  =  5.2  AU  •  One  Jovian  day  =  9.9  hours  •  One  Jovian  year  =  11.9  years  •  Mass  =  318  x  Earth’s  Mass  •  Radius  =  10.5-­‐11.2  x  Earth’s  Radius  •  Temperature:  165  K  (1bar),  112  K  (0.1bar)  •  Global  magneQc  field  >  10  Qmes  stronger  than  Earth’s  

•  64  named  moons  (47  less  than  10  km  across)  

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Orbital  Resonance  

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Io  

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Aurora  at  Jupiter  

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Aurora  at  Jupiter  

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Europa  

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Saturn  in  a  nutshell  

•  Orbital  distance  =  9.6  AU  •  One  Kronian  day  =  10.6  hours  •  One  Kronian  year  =  29.5  years  •  Mass  =  95  x  Earth’s  Mass  •  Radius  =  8.5-­‐9.5  x  Earth’s  Radius  •  Temperature:  134  K  (1bar),  84  K  (0.1bar)  •  Global  magneQc  field  comparable  to  Earth’s  •  62  moons,  53  have  names  

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Aurora  at  Saturn  

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Aurora  at  Saturn  

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Titan  

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Titan  

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Enceladus  

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Enceladus  

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Enceladus  

Temperatures  in  Kelvin    Max  maybe  as  high  as  160K  

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Uranus  &  Neptune  

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Uranus  &  Neptune  

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Uranus  

Miranda  

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Neptune  

Triton