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Asteroids

Minor Planets

Asteroid

Asteroids.

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It basically tells us this is the distribution of planets in size.

Okay, almost all of you.

This is an image of an asteroid that passed us in 2009.

These little green peaks are asteroid collisions.

It doesn't have to be huge couple of tons, not that big and you park it near the asteroid.

Label density for asteroid names

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Orbiting one of these stars

Fill in the blanks.

And they never will.

But you have it in planets and asteroids.

That's Mercury. This is Venus.

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Tycho. An asteroid crashed there and broke the moon.

You can see here, the small planets dominate the picture.

And it makes a lot of sense.

I'm out of Goldstone in Arizona we work with Spaceguard tracking Near Earth Objects

Now, a year ago, we did an amazing thing.

Some kind of asteroid collision.

Planet of the Apes.

That's Altair4, the bright speck below the star.

It passed directly through Earth's orbit. We were in that that spot six hours earlier.

Faint limit for asteroids

faint limit for asteroids

Attach name labels to asteroids?

There aren't many craters.

It's like, well, you can try that, but the problem is timing.

Asteroids do not concern me, Admiral.

The Earth is a small but beautiful planet.

Draw asteroids in the sky map?

Set the faintest magnitude for drawing asteroids

This is where we are as a country.

(Laughter)

The one of them (Laughter)

There you have the asteroid belt, which also has some pretty big things in itself.

planetary nebula

Planetary nebulae

Planetary Nebulae

Planetary Nebula