Remnants of Rock & Ice - The Sun - Notes
Trojan asteroids - follow Jupiter's orbit
Meteorite Types -
1) Primitive: Unchanged in composition since
they first formed 4.6 billion years ago. Stony
or carbon-rich.
2) Processed: Younger, have experienced
processes like volcanism or differentiation. Can
be metal rich (core like) or rocky (mantle
like).
All solar activity
are related to magnetic
fields:
Sunspots - occur where
tightly wound magnetic fields poke straight from
the solar interior. Tend to occur in pairs.
Suppresses convection and prevents surrounding
plasma from entering the sunspot. Cooler than
surrounding regions.
Prominences -
Last for days/weeks, trapped gas from the
chromosphere, corona in the magnetic
loops.
Solar flares - Magnetic
activity that sends bursts of X-rays and charged
particles into space. Occurs when highly twisted
magnetic field lines snap to reorganize intto
simpler form. Lasts minutes to
hours.
Coronal holes - represent
areas of broken open magnetic fields, along which
particles spiral outwards as the solar
wind. Dark regions in the X-ray
picture.
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