{"id":1676,"date":"2011-09-22T19:59:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T19:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:40:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:40:29","slug":"sept-22-2011-at-the-edges-of-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"Sept 22 2011: At the Edges of the Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/giraffe.phy.nau.edu\/~trilling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Dave Trilling<\/a><br \/>\nDept. Physics &amp; Astronomy, Northern Arizona University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe small bodies of the Solar System have a story to tell about the<br \/>\nhistory of our Solar System. Near Earth Objects &#8212; asteroids whose<br \/>\norbits bring them near the Earth&#8217;s orbit &#8212; are interesting both<br \/>\nbecause they sample compositions from throughout the Solar System and<br \/>\nbecause they can, and do, hit the Earth. Kuiper Belt Objects, at the<br \/>\nouter edge of the Solar System, are, in contrast, relatively primordial<br \/>\nand record the formation environment in the early Solar System. In my<br \/>\ntalk, I will present our latest results in studies of both Near Earth<br \/>\nObjects and Kuiper Belt Objects, focusing on new results obtained with<br \/>\ndata from the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, and<br \/>\nthe STEREO mission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Trilling10.pdf\">Trilling et al., 2010<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Fuentes10.pdf\">Fuentes et al., 2010<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Prof. Dave Trilling Dept. Physics &amp; Astronomy, Northern Arizona University Abstract: The small bodies of the Solar System have a story to tell about the history of our Solar System. Near Earth Objects &#8212; asteroids whose orbits bring them near the Earth&#8217;s orbit &#8212; are interesting both because they sample compositions from throughout the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=1676\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sept 22 2011: At the Edges of the Solar System&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colloquia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13243,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions\/13243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}