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The scattered disk beyond the orbit of Neptune doesn't contain any true planets as such, but a number of icy minor planets (like Sedna), the largest known of which is Eris (which is larger than Pluto).
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. Scientists believe that Earth and the other planets formed _____.?
They believe the planets formed from a disc of gas and dust called a "protoplanetary disc".
Is Mars one of the outer planets because it is located inside asteroid belt?
Mars does not lie within the asteroid belt. It orbits nearer the Sun than the asteroid belt, so is an inner planet. In order from the Sun, the solar bodies or groups are:The Inner Planets: MercuryVenusEarthMarsThe Asteroid Belt and Dwarf Planet CeresThe Outer Planets: JupiterSaturnUranusNeptuneThe Cometary Belt CentaursThe Kuiper Belt Dwarf Planet PlutoDwarf Planet HaumeaDwarf Planet MakemakeThe Scattered Disc Dwarf Planet ErisThe Oort Cloud
Describe a asteroid belt?
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets. The asteroid belt region is also termed the main belt to distinguish it from other concentrations of minor planets within the Solar System, such as the Kuiper belt and scattered disc.
What are the current weight of the nine planet?
The total mass of all eight major planets is approximately 446.6125 Earths. Earth's mass is approximately 5.97 x1024kg, thus the total mass is in the region of 2.666 x 1027kg. Note that weight is a meaningless term since weight is a function of mass and gravity, and all planets are themselves a source of gravity (as is all matter, including you and I). In any event, all the planets are effectively weightless since they all orbit the largest source of gravity in the solar system, the sun itself. This is why we use the term mass instead of weight. Note that Pluto has not been considered a major planet since 1977 after the discovery of 2060 Chiron along with numerous other icy rocks with similarly eccentric orbits to Pluto, including the scattered disc Erin (discovered in 2005) which is approximately 27% larger than Pluto. In 2006, all these minor planets were reclassified as dwarf planets. As such, there are only 8 major planets.
What can be scattered?
Rain showers can be scattered, you will often hear the weather forcaster, forcasting scattered showers, seeds too can be scattered either by natural events such a being scattered by the wind, or animals, or a farmer may scatter seeds in order to grow crops. In maths terms you can produce scatter graphs with data plotted or scattered all over the graph area.The final answer is to have your ashes scattered.
. Scientists believe that Earth and the other planets formed _____.?
They believe the planets formed from a disc of gas and dust called a "protoplanetary disc".
Is Eris orbiting the Sun?
Yes.But it orbiting it from 6,000,000,000 miles.It by the Scattered Disc.
Are the largest planets in the solar system scattered through out the solar system?
No.
Where are the dwarf planets in your solar system?
One of the dwarf planets, Ceres, is in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and shares its orbit with millions of small rocky objects or asteroids. All the rest we know about are called plutoids (after Pluto), are largely made of ice and are in the Kuiper Belt and Scattered Disc, regions filled with icy bodies out beyond the planet Neptune. The Kuiper Belt goes from 30-50 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, the Scattered Disc goes out from 50-100 times further from the Sun than Earth. That's very far away! It's possible that there are other dwarf planets beyond that but we haven't yet found any.
What does the word asteroid belt mean?
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets. The asteroid belt region is also termed the main belt to distinguish it from other concentrations of minor planets within the Solar System, such as the Kuiper belt and scattered disc.
What is the name for the nebula planets from out of?
Nebulae are the birth places for stars, not planets. However, once stars begin to form, planets can come about through gravitational 'clumping' in the stellar accretion disc.
Is Mars one of the outer planets because it is located inside asteroid belt?
Mars does not lie within the asteroid belt. It orbits nearer the Sun than the asteroid belt, so is an inner planet. In order from the Sun, the solar bodies or groups are:The Inner Planets: MercuryVenusEarthMarsThe Asteroid Belt and Dwarf Planet CeresThe Outer Planets: JupiterSaturnUranusNeptuneThe Cometary Belt CentaursThe Kuiper Belt Dwarf Planet PlutoDwarf Planet HaumeaDwarf Planet MakemakeThe Scattered Disc Dwarf Planet ErisThe Oort Cloud
How did sun and planets form from sun and dust?
Nobody knows for certain. Most scientists think that the Sun, Earth and other planets (the Solar System) were formed from a mass of dust and gas. Nearly 5,000 million years ago, this mass started to shrink, and then spin and flatten into a disc. The centre of the disc spun fastest. This became the Sun. The rest of the material turned into the planets.
Describe a asteroid belt?
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets. The asteroid belt region is also termed the main belt to distinguish it from other concentrations of minor planets within the Solar System, such as the Kuiper belt and scattered disc.
Features of your solar system?
---- The Solar System[a] consists of theSun and those celestial objects bound to it by gravity: the eight planets and five dwarf planets, their 173 knownmoons,[b] and billions of small bodies. The small bodies include asteroids, icyKuiper belt objects, comets,meteoroids, and interplanetary dust.The charted regions of the Solar System comprise the Sun, four terrestrial inner planets, the asteroid belt, four gas giant outer planets, and finally the Kuiper belt and the scattered disc. The hypothetical Oort cloud may also exist at a distance roughly a thousand times beyond these regions. Thesolar wind, a flow of plasma from the Sun, permeates the Solar System, creating a bubble in the interstellar medium known as theheliosphere, which extends out to the middle of the scattered disc. In order of their distances from the Sun, the eight planets are: # Mercury (57,900,000km) # Venus (108,000,000km) # Earth (150,000,000km) # Mars (228,000,000km) # Jupiter (779,000,000km) # Saturn (1,430,000,000km) # Uranus (2,880,000,000km) # Neptune (4,500,000,000km) As of mid-2008, five smaller objects are classified as dwarf planets, all but the first of which orbit beyond Neptune. These are: # Ceres(415,000,000 km, in the asteroid belt;formerly classed as the fifth planet) # Pluto(5,906,000,000 km, formerly classified as the ninth planet) # Haumea (6,450,000,000km) # Makemake (6,850,000,000km) # Eris (10,100,000,000km) Six of the planets and three of the dwarf planets are orbited by natural satellites, usually termed "moons" after Earth's Moon. Each of the outer planets is encircled by planetary rings of dust and other particles.
Why are Terrestrial planets closer to the sun then the Jovian planets?
Terrestrial planets are made of denser materials than Jovian planets. The planets were primarily formed from the left over disc of dust that orbited our sun when it first formed. The heavier elements were draw closer to the sun by gravity and the lighter ones flung further outward by their high orbital speed.
Why do we spot other planets only at night?
They are not bright enough to be seen when the atmosphere is illuminated by scattered sunlight, which makes the sky look blue, during the day.
