(JPL), University of Surrey, and the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) is developing the AAReST (Autonomous Assembly of a Reconfigurable Space Telescope) mission concept to produce an optical telescope with “primary mirror” made up of distributed 10-cm-diameter circular ...
Small bodies are rocky and/or icy objects, usually ranging in size from a few meters to a few hundreds of kilometers. They comprise near-Earth and main belt asteroids, Jupiter Trojans, trans-Neptunian objects, Centaurs, comets, and a recently discovered category called the transitional objects....
Comets also influence planetary motion today. As Jupiter continues to fling comets outward, it moves inward ever so slightly because of the gravitational dance with the icy bodies. Neptune, meanwhile, throws comets inward and in turn gets a tiny outward push. Uranus and Saturn are also moving o...
“classical planets,”together with a number of dwarf planet.The classical planets are:Mercury; Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.The debate over Plates status started in 1992.After an advanced telescope was sent into space, astronomers started to find a belt of objects,...
The Kepler space telescope detects planets that "transit" or pass in front of their host star, causing periodic dips in the brightness of the star as measured by the telescope's sensitive photometer. The amount of the brightness reduction tells scientists how big the planet is in terms of it...