INNER PLANETS THE JUPITER TROJANS

Subsonic solar wind

(AKA Trojan asteroids): a large group of objects
MERCURY that share the orbit of the planet Jupiter. Each
4,879km DIA. Moons: 0 Supersonic solar wind
Trojan orbits one or other of the two "Lagrangian
Ave. distance from Sun: 57.91 million km points" of stability that lie 60 ahead of Jup
Orbital period: 88 Earth days and 60 behind the gas giant in its orbit.
have a very low albedo and emit a featureless
VENUS reddish electromagnetic spectrum.
12,104km DIA. Moons: 0 SOLAR WIND:
Ave. distance from Sun: 108.21 million km Thin stream of electrically
Orbital period: 225 Earth days charged gas blowing outward
from the Sun continuously
EARTH THE CENTAURS
12,742km DIA. Moons: 1 A class of icy planetoids which orbit the Sun
Ave. distance from Sun: 149.60 million km between Jupiter and Neptune, crossing the orbits
Orbital period: 365.256 days of the large gas giant planets. The first centaur
to be discovered was "2060 Chiron" in 1977, while
MARS the largest currently known is "10199 Chariklo"
6,780km DIA. Moons: 2 discovered in 1997.
Ave. distance from Sun: 228 million km
Orbital period: 687 Earth days

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MAIN ASTEROID BELT TRANS-NEPTUNIAN OBJECTS (TNO)
Located between the orbits of Mars and Any object in the solar system that orbits
Jupiter. Occupied by hundreds of thousands of the sun at a greater distance on average
asteroids. Four objects have a diameter over than Neptune. The Kuiper belt, scattered
400km: Ceres, Vesta, Pallas and Hygiea disk, and Oort cloud are three divisions
of this volume of space.
CERES (Dwarf Planet)
950km DIA. Moons: 0
Distance from Sun: 2.8 AU
DWARF PLANET TNOs
Orbital period: 4.6 Earth years
Saturn
PLUTO
Asteroid 2,376km DIA. Moons: 5
Trojans
belt Perihelion 29.7 AU
Makemake (Trojan
camp) Orbital period: 248 Earth years

ERIS
Mars
Mercury 2,326km DIA. Moons: 1
Earth
Perihelion 37.77 AU
Venus
Orbital period: 561 Earth years
Haumea Ceres
Jupiter Uranus
MAKEMAKE
1500km DIA. Moons: 1
Perihelion 38.509 AU
Trojans

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Orbital period: 305.34 Earth years
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HAUMEA
OUTER PLANETS 1960x1518x996km. Moons: 1
Neptune
Perihelion 35 AU
Orbital period: 285 Earth years

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JUPITER
142,984km DIA. Moons: 79 known

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Ave. distance from Sun: 778.3 million km SEDNA (KBO/Dwarf Planet Candidate)
Pluto
Orbital period: 12 Earth years 1800km DIA. Moons: 0
Very eccentric orbit similar to an Oort
SATURN cloud comet but ten times smaller.
120,536km DIA. Moons: 62 known Orbital period: 12,000 Earth years
Ave. distance from Sun: 1,429.39 million km

AU
Orbital period: 29 Earth years

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URANUS
51,118km DIA. Moons: 27 known
Ave. distance from Sun: 2,875 million km
Orbital period: 84 Earth years
NEPTUNE
49,528km DIA. Moons: 14 known
Distance from Sun: 4,504 million km
Orbital period: 165 Earth years
ORBITS OF PLUTO & NEPTUNE
Despite Pluto's orbit apparently crossing that of
Neptune when viewed from directly above the
ecliptic, the two objects cannot collide. This is
because their orbits are aligned so that Pluto and
Neptune can never approach closely.
KUIPER BELT
20 times as wide and 20-200 times as massive as the asteroid belt.
Consists mainly of small bodies (remnants from the Solar System's
formation) and three dwarf planets (Pluto/Haumea/Makemake).
Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (dubbed
"ices"), such as methane, ammonia and water. More than 70,000
KBOs over 100 km in diameter are believed to reside there.
SCATTERED DISK
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SDOs) and the place of origin for most
periodic comets in the Solar System.
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The boundary in the heliosphere where the solar
wind slows to subsonic speed due to interactions
with the local interstellar medium. This causes
compression, heating and a change in the
magnetic field (which becomes twice as strong).
The Astronomical Unit (AU) is a unit of length
effectively equal to the average distance
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Orbits are not to scale.
Planets are shown increased in size for clarity.
Plutoids & KBO's have very eccentric orbits
which are inclined to the ecliptic plane.

Version 1.0 (April 2020)

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