Astro 210 Lecture 18 February 28, 2018

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Astro 210 Lecture 18 February 28, 2018 Announcements HW5 due online in PDF, Friday 5:00 pm Office hours: instructor 2:00-3:00 pm today TA: 3:30-4:30 pm tomorrow (?) Night Observing this week weather permitting Campus Observatory. Wed, Thur 7 9pm bring report form available on Moodle take and submit selfie while there 1

Craters Craters caused by meteor/comet impact explosion results large energy release Resulting features: circular bowl cleared out in larger craters, central peak ( rebound of underlying rock) www: the Moon 2Q: Why Moon s surface heavily cratered but Earth s not?

Why Moon s surface heavily cratered but Earth s not? small meteors burn in E s atmosphere erosion oceans hide some tectonic activity volcanos hide some 3 Some large objects do survive fall impact on surface but erosion, geological activity quickly erases evidence www: Manicouagan, Canada crater www: Clearwater lakes, also Canada www: Tunguska, Siberia 1929; exploded in air 1908 www: Meteor Crater, AZ

Cosmic Calamity! Mass extinction: dinosaurs died abruptly 65 Myr ago ended Cretaceous era, began Tertiary that continues today What killed the dinosaurs? Longstanding question Alvarez+(1980): strong evidence for meteor/comet impact global 1 cm layer at Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary www: K/T boundary found to be (relatively) highly enriched in iridium on Earth: most Ir is in core, binds to Fe in space rocks: not differentiated, higher Ir 4 Q: what would be the definitive evidence?

T Rex and the Crater of Doom large impact implies large crater 1990: buried crater found via gravity acceleration anomalies located off Yucatan peninsula, Mexico www: topographical map of Yucatan--note bull s eye diameter 180 km huge! age (from radioactive 40 K dating): 65 Myrs: when dinos died! Q: how could a large impactor ruin your day? 5

K/T Mass Extinction Lethal Effects explosion of impactor and surface material huge numbers of small particles launched into orbit rained down globally, delivering K/T layer but also heat fire for hours, heat flux F sky 10F like pizza oven! global fires. species died if couldn t hide brimstone raining material sulfur rich acid rain and raised albedo A: skies darkened floods tusnamis launched 6

The Moon Global Properties M = 7.3 10 22 kg R = 1738 km 1/4 R earth d EM = 3.8 10 5 km 60R E ρ avg 3000 kg m 3 not big metallic core, no magnetism surface gravity acceleration g moon = GM Moon R 2 Moon = 1.6 m/s 2 1 6 g earth 7 Giant steps are what you take Walking on the Moon astrophysicists The Police (1979) Reggatta de Blanc

Tides www: high/low comparison image www: online data -- pick a beach to visit! Q: what is tide period: high to high/low to low? 8

grav. force changes with distance tidal forces compare forces on mass m at different distances A B F A = GMm/r 2 F B = GMm/(r + d) 2 F A > F B force tries to pull A and B apart tidal force 9 F tide = F A F B (1) ( ) 1 = GMm r 2 1 (r + d) 2 (2) = GMm (r + d)2 r 2 r 2 (r + d) 2 (3) d(2r + d) + d/2r) = GMm r 2 = GMm2dr(1 (r + d) 2 r 4 (1 + d/r) 2 (4) if d r F tide = 2GMm d r 3

C B A C B A to Moon Earth in isolation Earth in field of Moon A feels strongest attraction B feels average attraction C feels weakest attraction 10 so: gravity acclerations g C < g B < g A relative to average g = g g B : g C < 0 < g A

The Moon: Orbit www: lunation animation: always same face! www: far side Always same side faces us! demo: lunar globe 11

iclicker Poll: The Moon & Spin The Moon always keeps the same face to us What is the Moon s spin period? A zero! no spin! B nonzero! spin period < orbit period C nonzero! spin period = orbit period D nonzero! spin period > orbit period 12

Moon has ω orb = ω spin exactly! co-rotation Why? Tidal interaction and friction ex: ball rolling in bowl F f 0 after time: stopped F f = 0 friction drives a system to a state in which frictional forces are no longer active 13 Earth & Moon deformed by tidal forces sketch imagine ω spin > ω orb Q: What is effect on Moon s surface? Q: How will this change the spin & orbit over time?

Tidal stresses on Moon Moon surface constantly deformed Deformed Moon non-spherical: tidal bulges Earth gravity on bulges torque increases Moon orbital angular momentum repeated stretching/compression friction, heating dissipation evolve to frictionless state: reduces Moon spin angular momentum until ω spin = ω orb Note: may take long time! complete for Moon, not for earth! 14

Earth ω E spin > ω orb sketch Earth drags along tidal bulges F N > F F Two effects 1. slows earth spin (reduces ang. mom.) dp spin /dt 1.6 10 5 s/yr = 16 s/myr 2. adds orbital ang. momentum to moon, (still circular) (v c = GM/R or ω orb = v c /R = GM/R 3 ) net effect: earth-moon distance increases! dr/dt 2.3 cm/yr confirmed by laser ranging measurements! www: laser to Moon 15 Thus: moon recedes! Moon closer in past!

The Moon: Surface Features highlands: lighter in color, heavily cratered www: Apollo 17 in highlands (mountains made by impacts) maria seas (singular: mare): dark plains www: Mare Imbrium large scale www: maria/highlands comparison smooth: fewer craters, made of volcanic rock Q: how do we know? formed by lava flows 16 craters cover surface occur in all sizes, > 20km to microscopic www: Mare Oriental www: maria--overlapping craters

Apollo: 50th Anniversary 1950s-60s: Cold War space race to Moon US vs USSR 1957: Sputnik 1 first artificial Earth satellite 1959: Luna 2 probe impacts Moon; Luna 3 orbits, sends images 1961: Yuri Gregarin first human in space 17 NASA Apollo goal: land and return astronauts approach: two spacecraft that dock and undock: Command & Service Module (CSM) orbits Moon, returns to Earth Lunar Module (LM= lem ) lands on Moon, left in orbit

Apollo: 50th Anniversaries Apollo 8 December 1968 first humans out of low Earth orbit first humans to see Earth globally first humans out of Earth s gravity well first humans in another gravity well first humans to orbit Moon 18 Apollo 11 July 1969 humans walk on another world Mare Tranqillitatis: Sea of Tranquility Neil Armstrong (BS Aero Eng!), Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins www: Apollo images and video