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Speeding by Jupiter
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
05/05/07 |
| Summary: The New Horizons spacecraft has collected new data on the Jupiter system, providing new views of the giant planet's atmosphere, rings, moons and magnetosphere. |
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Questioning Dwarfs
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
03/08/07 |
| Summary: In the final part of this five-part lecture given at NASA´s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Michael Brown answers questions from the audience. Questions include "Why did the name of Xena get changed to Eris?" and "Could there be another undiscovered planet in our solar system?" |
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Studying Dwarf Planets
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
03/05/07 |
| Summary: In this lecture, Michael Brown talks about Eris, the dwarf planet he discovered, and discusses other intriguing findings in the farthest reaches of our solar system. |
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The Discovery of Eris
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
03/01/07 |
| Summary: In this lecture, Michael Brown talks about his discovery of the dwarf planet, Eris. He also explains how scientists take a tiny point of light in the night sky and figure out how big it really is. |
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Hunting Distant Dwarfs
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
02/26/07 |
| Summary: In this lecture, Michael Brown talks about the discovery of Pluto in 1930, and explains how scientists today find other distant objects in the Kuiper Belt. |
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Defining Planets
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
02/22/07 |
| Summary: In this lecture, Michael Brown discusses the controversy over Pluto's demotion to a "dwarf planet" and what that means for our scientific understanding of the solar system. |
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Astrobiology Top 10: New Horizons
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
12/30/06 |
| Summary: Astrobiology Magazine is looking back over 2006, highlighting the Top 10 astrobiology stories of a very eventful year. At number 9 is the launch of the New Horizons mission to Pluto. By visiting Pluto and its neighbors in the Kuiper Belt, scientists hope to learn more about the history if the solar system and its potential for life. (This article originally appeared on January 19, 2006.) |
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A Glimmer of Pluto on the Horizon
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
11/29/06 |
| Summary: The New Horzons spacecraft is continuing to speed through the solar system, and now it has spotted its main target: Pluto. New Horizons plans to study Pluto and its neighbors in the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy bodies located on the outer edge of our solar system. |
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Capturing Triton
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
05/12/06 |
| Summary: Neptune's large moon Triton may have abandoned an earlier partner to arrive in its unusual orbit around Neptune. Triton is unique among all the large moons in the solar system because it orbits Neptune in a direction opposite to the planet's rotation (a "retrograde" orbit). |
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Hubble Spies Pluto's New Moons
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| Topic: Outer Solar System |
03/07/06 |
| Summary: The Kuiper Belt is a band of icy, rocky objects and dwarf planets that orbit the Sun in the outer region of our solar system, beyond the orbit of Neptune. It has been known since 1992; Pluto is its most prominent member. Using the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys, the team that originally discovered the moons in two sets of Pluto observations in May 2005, confirmed their discovery in new Hubble images. |
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