Dirty Rotten Snow Balls (Show #43)
By Pamela on February 16, 2006 at 12:16 pm | In Slacker Astronomy Archival Podcasts |Image of Hyakataki from the STScI.
Title: Dirt Rotten Snow Balls
Written By: Pamela
Disembodied Voices: Pamela & Travis
Engineered: Travis
Castdate: 060216
Rating: FF
- Transcript
- Keck Press Release on Patroclus
- Marchis’s page on Patroclus
- UC Berkeley’s Press Release on new extrasolar Kuiper Belts
- STScI Release on new extrasolar Kuiper Belts
- STScI Release on Tiny Icy Extrasolar Planet
- Wikipedia Entry on Lagrange Points
Image taken from Wikipedia. Each of the Lagrange Points (L1-L5) represent places where the gravitational tug from the yellow sphere and blue sphere are balanced, allowing a third object to (at least temporarily) corotate with the system.
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