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atomic7732

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Comets
« on: October 18, 2010, 08:10:28 PM »
You know how they are depicted inclined like Pluto?

Most are actually in the plane with Earth, less inclined than most asteroids.

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Re: Comets
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2010, 08:36:56 PM »
What I also noticed is that most asteroids are depicted with little or no inclination when they have ranges between 2° and 20° mostly towards the higher end. ~

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Re: Comets
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2010, 09:55:36 PM »
yeah ;D

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Re: Comets
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2010, 03:01:40 PM »
Many comets have very inclined orbits, many some close of 90o.

Below are the orbits of some thousands of comets in Starry Night software catalog, the solar system are view laterally:


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Re: Comets
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2010, 03:04:34 PM »
Here are more comets orbits:




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Re: Comets
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2010, 03:33:34 PM »
That's the outer comets. I'm talking about the lesser known, periodic comets. Like Encke.

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Re: Comets
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2010, 09:23:14 AM »
So you mean the comets that have been pulled into low inclination, small orbit comets?

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Re: Comets
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2010, 10:17:54 AM »
The Jupiter families!

because they probably actually formed in the Kuiper Belt... They were then pulled in, and leveled out with the planets (KOZAI!!!!), and pulled further in by Jupiter. The ones that currently reach out ot the kuiper Belt, may eventually become a Jupiter family, but most of the non-coplanar comets are from the Oort Cloud (thus seeing the odd inclinations, cause the Oort is a sphere).

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Re: Comets
« Reply #8 on: December 31, 2010, 11:36:16 AM »
Here are more comets orbits:




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Umm, I didn't know that comets were from a rich city. ???

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Re: Comets
« Reply #9 on: December 31, 2010, 11:37:02 AM »
Actually something blocked it. It'll revert back if you right click the image and view.