1. Pluto and Other Minor Worlds of the Solar System Comet Hale-Bopp, visible in 1997

2. Pluto Data Mean Distance from Sun 3,663,800,000 miles 39.4 AU Diameter at the Equator 1,457 miles Length of “Year” (revolution around the sun) 247.69 earth years Diameter if Earth = 1 0.18 Length of “Day” 6.39 earth days Mass if Earth = 1 0.002 Symbol Surface Gravity if Earth = 1 0.05

6. Pluto: HST

7. Pluto Surface Map (HST)

9. Pluto’s Orbit Pluto closer than Neptune

12. Pluto and Charon (HST)

14. Pluto System (HST) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060624.html

16. Clyde Tombaugh

22. Ceres

23. Ceres: HST

25. Asteroid Belt

26. Asteroid Comparisons

35. Some Kuiper Belt Objects Name (date) Pluto (1930) Charon (1978)* Orcus (2004) Ixion (2001) Quaoar (2002) Eris (2003) Sedna (2004) *Pluto’s satellite Diameter (mi) 1400 750 940 514 800 1500 800-1100 Distance (AU) 39.4 39.4 40 40 43.5 68 78

36. Pluto & Beyond http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/sedna/

39. Sedna

42. Structure of a Comet Note : Coma, ion tail, dust tail, nucleus

43. Comet Lulin (2009) Note coma, dust tail

44. Hale-Bopp (1997) Dust tail-brown Ion tail-blue

49. Giotto’s Halley http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=26428

51. Deep Impact: Wild 2 Nucleus

54. Ikeya-Seki (Oct, 1965)

55. Hyakutake (1996), 100 Degree Tail

56. Hale-Bopp (1997)

61. Types of Meteorites Stony Meteorites Iron Meteorites Widmanstatten Pattern Flakes of nickel-iron embedded in stone

63. In 1969, the Allend meteorite created a dazzling blue display in the skies near Chihuahua, Mexico, before impact The dark blue color is due to carbon in the meteorite. This meteorite, a carbonaceous chondrite, is believed to contain unaltered material from the early Solar System (chondrules) SLICED OPEN

66. Libyan Desert Glass Robert Haag and Libyan Desert Glass http://www.meteoriteman.com/desert01.html