kuiper belt map?, does it exist? |
kuiper belt map?, does it exist? |
Guest_cassioli_* |
Dec 16 2009, 09:29 AM
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I just read about new WISE mission been launched to look for objects in KP and over there, and this question came to my mind: does it exist a map of kuiper belt objects? I have not so much clear how Pluto is located up there; I always imagined it just as a planet alone in its orbit, but , as far as I can understand now, there's actually something more similar to the asteroid belt among mars and jupiter; is this correct? Any picture of it?
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Guest_cassioli_* |
Dec 19 2009, 11:02 PM
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This is my "work in progress" solar system:
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/2881/sistemasolare.jpg Any suggestion? I'd like to add some boxes with details about minor bodies. Maybe I could add major moons of each planet. Text will be clearly visibile in hi-res version (even smallest one). |
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Dec 20 2009, 02:18 AM
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Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1799 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 |
I like the approach - it is very effective at conveying a sense of the relative scale of the various important bodies in the system.
I'd make a couple of suggestions: Use a solar image of just a fraction of the solar limb as a backdrop, but keep it to the same scale so it is almost a vertical slice to convey just how huge the sun is and keep a solar prominence in the frame, that works very nicely IMO. I'd also prefer to see a presentation that kept the body sequence intact in terms of overlay position - I think the presentation would be better with Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake clearly positioned "behind" Saturn and the order of the inner planets showing Mercury\Venus\Earth\Mars in that sequence from foreground to background. Also I'd broaden the spatial part of the chart that shows the absolute range from Sol out to the Kuiper belt bodies so that it covers the entire width of the image - the basic idea is excellent though as it fills in the missing impression of distance that the to-scale primary images cannot convey. They are just opinions though - I really do like this approach, excellent work. One final thing - if you can apply some anti-aliasing to the images it would make the full resolution version look _much_ better. |
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