The Cosmic Perspective Asteroids, Comets, and Dwarf Planets
... b) The asteroids were too far apart to run into each other frequently enough to form a planet. c) A planet formed early in the solar system and was broken apart by a giant impact. d) Orbital resonances with Jupiter disrupted the orbits of the asteroids and prevented them from forming a planet. e) ...
... b) The asteroids were too far apart to run into each other frequently enough to form a planet. c) A planet formed early in the solar system and was broken apart by a giant impact. d) Orbital resonances with Jupiter disrupted the orbits of the asteroids and prevented them from forming a planet. e) ...
Great Migrations & other natural history tales
... Don’t memorize this derivation! it’s optional ...
... Don’t memorize this derivation! it’s optional ...
View District Syllabus - Tarrant County College
... describing differences in the composition, number, size, and possible atmospheres of the satellites of the various planets; b. describing differences in the orbital characteristics and the gravitational interactions of the satellites of the various planets; c. explaining the nature of ring systems o ...
... describing differences in the composition, number, size, and possible atmospheres of the satellites of the various planets; b. describing differences in the orbital characteristics and the gravitational interactions of the satellites of the various planets; c. explaining the nature of ring systems o ...
ACTIVE ACCRETION——An Active Learning Game on Solar
... clumps of matter, which then start to collide with each other at low velocities. The particles eventually stick together through electrostatic forces, forming larger aggregates of similar types of constituents. Over a period of a few million years, further collisions make more compact aggregates and ...
... clumps of matter, which then start to collide with each other at low velocities. The particles eventually stick together through electrostatic forces, forming larger aggregates of similar types of constituents. Over a period of a few million years, further collisions make more compact aggregates and ...
Solar System
... Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They draw upon a variety of comprehension strategies as needed (e.g. generating and responding to essential questions, making predictions, comparing information from several sources). The selections in recommended Readings in Literature, ...
... Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They draw upon a variety of comprehension strategies as needed (e.g. generating and responding to essential questions, making predictions, comparing information from several sources). The selections in recommended Readings in Literature, ...
A Unit 5 Videoscript
... Zeek: “Our beautiful blue Earth is the third planet.” SC: “Yes, Commander.” Zeek: “Venus is the hottest planet, even though Mercury is closest to the sun.” SC: “Venus is hotter than Mercury because it has thick gas clouds all over it that trap in the sun’s heat. Mercury is a small, rocky pla ...
... Zeek: “Our beautiful blue Earth is the third planet.” SC: “Yes, Commander.” Zeek: “Venus is the hottest planet, even though Mercury is closest to the sun.” SC: “Venus is hotter than Mercury because it has thick gas clouds all over it that trap in the sun’s heat. Mercury is a small, rocky pla ...
Presentation
... Gravitational Influences of the Planets on the Sun - Ian Wilson’s Latest Research (April 23, 2012) ...
... Gravitational Influences of the Planets on the Sun - Ian Wilson’s Latest Research (April 23, 2012) ...
Ch11_Lecture
... trillions of icy bodies believed to lie far beyond Pluto’s orbit to a distance of about 150,000 AU ...
... trillions of icy bodies believed to lie far beyond Pluto’s orbit to a distance of about 150,000 AU ...
Planetary atmosphere modelling and other activities at LMD, IPSL
... -‐ Cassini: around Saturn (and Titan) since 2004 -‐ RoseRa (launch: 2004: Comet in 2014). See below. ...
... -‐ Cassini: around Saturn (and Titan) since 2004 -‐ RoseRa (launch: 2004: Comet in 2014). See below. ...
Lecture13
... Europa and Io are about the size of the Moon Ganymede and Callisto are bigger than Mercury ...
... Europa and Io are about the size of the Moon Ganymede and Callisto are bigger than Mercury ...
Rings, Moons, and Pluto The Jupiter System The Orbits of Jupiter`s
... km and circles Jupiter in 17 days • Callisto has the same rotational period as orbital period like the Moon • The surface temperature of Callisto is -140 ...
... km and circles Jupiter in 17 days • Callisto has the same rotational period as orbital period like the Moon • The surface temperature of Callisto is -140 ...
Zoom Astronomy is a comprehensive on
... 39 known moons, and a dark, barely-visible ring. Its most prominent features are bands across its latitudes and a great red spot (which is a storm). Jupiter is composed mostly of gas. This enormous planet radiates twice as much heat as it absorbs from the Sun. It also has an extremely strong magneti ...
... 39 known moons, and a dark, barely-visible ring. Its most prominent features are bands across its latitudes and a great red spot (which is a storm). Jupiter is composed mostly of gas. This enormous planet radiates twice as much heat as it absorbs from the Sun. It also has an extremely strong magneti ...
Activity 3 Orbits and Effects
... Earth’s orbit changes over time, because of complicated effects having to do with the weak gravitational pull of other planets in the solar system. Over the course of about 100,000 years, the Earth’s orbit ranges from nearly circular (very close to zero eccentricity) to more elliptical (with an ecce ...
... Earth’s orbit changes over time, because of complicated effects having to do with the weak gravitational pull of other planets in the solar system. Over the course of about 100,000 years, the Earth’s orbit ranges from nearly circular (very close to zero eccentricity) to more elliptical (with an ecce ...
Planets anD moons
... would have phases. They observe the planets using Solar System Objects cards, construct a scale model of the Solar System, then read about size and scale in How Big Is Big? How Far Is Far? They use a reference book, Handbook of Planets and Moons, to make comparisons between different planets and moo ...
... would have phases. They observe the planets using Solar System Objects cards, construct a scale model of the Solar System, then read about size and scale in How Big Is Big? How Far Is Far? They use a reference book, Handbook of Planets and Moons, to make comparisons between different planets and moo ...
Project GLAD Santa Ana Unified School District SAMPLE DAILY LESSON PLAN
... Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They draw upon a variety of comprehension strategies as needed (e.g. generating and responding to essential questions, making predictions, comparing information from several sources). The selections in recommended Readings in Literature, ...
... Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. They draw upon a variety of comprehension strategies as needed (e.g. generating and responding to essential questions, making predictions, comparing information from several sources). The selections in recommended Readings in Literature, ...
Identifying Solar System Patterns
... The farther you get from the Sun, the longer the orbital period. The inner planets are relatively close together, so that their orbital periods are similar. In comparison, the orbits of the gas giants are much more widely spaced, making the relative differences in their orbital periods much more sig ...
... The farther you get from the Sun, the longer the orbital period. The inner planets are relatively close together, so that their orbital periods are similar. In comparison, the orbits of the gas giants are much more widely spaced, making the relative differences in their orbital periods much more sig ...
What Goes Up Doesn`t Always Come Down
... through several layers of clouds, and the temperature and pressure gradually increase. If you were to keep going, you’d reach a rocky core deep within the planet. Here on Saturn the days pass more quickly than on Earth—a full day is only about ten hours long, about the same as on Jupiter. ...
... through several layers of clouds, and the temperature and pressure gradually increase. If you were to keep going, you’d reach a rocky core deep within the planet. Here on Saturn the days pass more quickly than on Earth—a full day is only about ten hours long, about the same as on Jupiter. ...
benchmarks and task analyses - I
... comets, and particles of dust and gas that revolve around the sun. Each of the nine planets spins around an imaginary axis through its center, while also traveling in a clockwise direction around the sun. The word planet comes from the Greek “planets,” which means “wanderer.” The distances from plan ...
... comets, and particles of dust and gas that revolve around the sun. Each of the nine planets spins around an imaginary axis through its center, while also traveling in a clockwise direction around the sun. The word planet comes from the Greek “planets,” which means “wanderer.” The distances from plan ...
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... • Cold – ices, gases – 10x more particles than inner • May have formed icy center, then captured lighter gases (Jupiter and Saturn first? Took H and He?) Image: LPI http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/timeline/gallery/slide_5.html ...
... • Cold – ices, gases – 10x more particles than inner • May have formed icy center, then captured lighter gases (Jupiter and Saturn first? Took H and He?) Image: LPI http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/timeline/gallery/slide_5.html ...
Nice model
The Nice model (/ˈniːs/) is a scenario for the dynamical evolution of the Solar System. It is named for the location of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, where it was initially developed, in Nice, France. It proposes the migration of the giant planets from an initial compact configuration into their present positions, long after the dissipation of the initial protoplanetary gas disk. In this way, it differs from earlier models of the Solar System's formation. This planetary migration is used in dynamical simulations of the Solar System to explain historical events including the Late Heavy Bombardment of the inner Solar System, the formation of the Oort cloud, and the existence of populations of small Solar System bodies including the Kuiper belt, the Neptune and Jupiter Trojans, and the numerous resonant trans-Neptunian objects dominated by Neptune. Its success at reproducing many of the observed features of the Solar System means that it is widely accepted as the current most realistic model of the Solar System's early evolution, though it is not universally favoured among planetary scientists. One of its limitations is reproducing the outer-system satellites and the Kuiper belt (see below).