Astronomy

1. Comets
a. Meteor showers
i. Not falling/shooting stars
ii. Comets leave behind a trail of dust in their orbit
1. Very fluffy pea-sized dust
iii. For certain comets the earth can pass through the dust trail once a year
1. The comet dust enters the earth’s atmosphere
a. Completely destroyed by the earth’s atmosphere
2. 50-100 meteors/hour (shower) or up to 1000 per hour (meteor storm)
3. Happen the same time every year
4. Best viewed after midnight
b. Low density
i. 100 kg/m3
c. “Dirty snowball”
d. 3 parts to a comet
i. Nucleus
1. Chunk of dirt and ice that exists all the time
ii. Coma
iii. Tail(s)
e. Primitive material
i. Material that is unchanged since the formation of the solar system (4.6 billion
years)
f. Missions
i. Deep Impact
1. Mixture of material formed at low temperatures and some at high
temperatures
ii. Star Dust
iii. Rosetta
1. Future mission
2. Read notes online
a. Had to finish other homework 
3. Formation of Jovian Planets
a. Core- accretion model
i. Core
1. Made of metals, silicates, and ice
ii. Review online notes