some interesting facts about planets
... A planet may look round ,but it is actually shaped like a spheroid. It actually looks like a squashed ball. ...
... A planet may look round ,but it is actually shaped like a spheroid. It actually looks like a squashed ball. ...
Why We Have Seasons
... moon, comets, asteroids - laws were used by friend, Edmond Halley to predict the reappear of a comet - also used by Adams and Leverrier to find a planet beyond the orbit of Uranus, based on slight irregularities in that planets orbital motion: Neptune - Law #1- a body remains at rest or moves in a s ...
... moon, comets, asteroids - laws were used by friend, Edmond Halley to predict the reappear of a comet - also used by Adams and Leverrier to find a planet beyond the orbit of Uranus, based on slight irregularities in that planets orbital motion: Neptune - Law #1- a body remains at rest or moves in a s ...
Earth in the Universe
... Evolution of Solar System • About 5 billion years old. Started as a gas cloud many times the size of today’s solar system. Gravitation caused the cloud to condense, most of the mass was pulled to the center and formed our sun. • After Earth and other planets were formed, their gravity pulled on oth ...
... Evolution of Solar System • About 5 billion years old. Started as a gas cloud many times the size of today’s solar system. Gravitation caused the cloud to condense, most of the mass was pulled to the center and formed our sun. • After Earth and other planets were formed, their gravity pulled on oth ...
jupiterwVideo the finsh 1
... are higher and cooler than surrounding ones. Called the Great Red Spot. It has been liked to great hurricane and is caused by tremendous winds that develop above the rapidly spinning planet. Winds blow counterclockwise around this disturbance at about 250 miles per hour. Hurricanes on earth rarely ...
... are higher and cooler than surrounding ones. Called the Great Red Spot. It has been liked to great hurricane and is caused by tremendous winds that develop above the rapidly spinning planet. Winds blow counterclockwise around this disturbance at about 250 miles per hour. Hurricanes on earth rarely ...
Exploring Our Solar System: A Journey
... • It has a Great Dark Spot much like the Great Red Spot on Jupiter but recently scientists have not seen it and wonder if it has disappeared altogether ...
... • It has a Great Dark Spot much like the Great Red Spot on Jupiter but recently scientists have not seen it and wonder if it has disappeared altogether ...
The Solar System
... a hurricane (which are around areas of low pressure). • The storm never stops because the gases never move over land. The storm is feed by Jupiter’s internal heat. • The spot is ever-changing and at times absorbs other nearby storms ...
... a hurricane (which are around areas of low pressure). • The storm never stops because the gases never move over land. The storm is feed by Jupiter’s internal heat. • The spot is ever-changing and at times absorbs other nearby storms ...
Solar System Review
... A fragment of rock, ice, or metal that has broken off colliding comets or asteroids and burns up in Earth’s atmosphere is known as a(n) a. asteroid. b. meteor. c. satellite. d. minor planets. ...
... A fragment of rock, ice, or metal that has broken off colliding comets or asteroids and burns up in Earth’s atmosphere is known as a(n) a. asteroid. b. meteor. c. satellite. d. minor planets. ...
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... We’re ready to blast off into learning about the nine planets of our solar system, and learn an easy way of remembering their order. Lets go….. ...
... We’re ready to blast off into learning about the nine planets of our solar system, and learn an easy way of remembering their order. Lets go….. ...
16SolMW - NMSU Astronomy
... – We see stars because they shine (energy from nuclear reactions in their centers, just like the Sun – the Sun is a star!) – The apparent brightness (how bright it appears to us) depends on how bright the star really shines AND how far away it is – The intrinsic brightness is how bright the star is ...
... – We see stars because they shine (energy from nuclear reactions in their centers, just like the Sun – the Sun is a star!) – The apparent brightness (how bright it appears to us) depends on how bright the star really shines AND how far away it is – The intrinsic brightness is how bright the star is ...
(“Wanderers”)
... - normal geological features like mountains, craters, valleys → similar to Earth ...
... - normal geological features like mountains, craters, valleys → similar to Earth ...
Lec – History4
... - normal geological features like mountains, craters, valleys → similar to Earth ...
... - normal geological features like mountains, craters, valleys → similar to Earth ...
History of Astronomy
... of Planetary Motion A line from a planet to the sun sweeps over equal areas in equal times Planets travel at different speeds – due to pull of gravity ...
... of Planetary Motion A line from a planet to the sun sweeps over equal areas in equal times Planets travel at different speeds – due to pull of gravity ...
Unit 1 Test Review Packet
... 13) Number the phases of the moon in the order that they occur, beginning with the new moon as number 1. ...
... 13) Number the phases of the moon in the order that they occur, beginning with the new moon as number 1. ...
Document
... A star is a hot ball of light (gas) that we can see in the night sky. Stars are classified as blue, white, yellow, and red. Blue is the hottest star and red is the coolest. A star may look bright because of it is hotter, closer to Earth, or bigger than other stars. A constellation is a star ...
... A star is a hot ball of light (gas) that we can see in the night sky. Stars are classified as blue, white, yellow, and red. Blue is the hottest star and red is the coolest. A star may look bright because of it is hotter, closer to Earth, or bigger than other stars. A constellation is a star ...
Chapter 19 The Solar System
... Can be predicted and occur when the sun, moon, and earth are in a straight line Solar eclipse= moon casts a shadow onto Earth; within this small shadow area the moon blocks the sun Lunar eclipse = the moon passes into the shadow of the earth; a full moon darkens; this is rare because of the moon’s o ...
... Can be predicted and occur when the sun, moon, and earth are in a straight line Solar eclipse= moon casts a shadow onto Earth; within this small shadow area the moon blocks the sun Lunar eclipse = the moon passes into the shadow of the earth; a full moon darkens; this is rare because of the moon’s o ...
Lecture 1 The Big Picture: Origin of the Earth
... The planets can be divided into two groups The inner terrestrial (Earth-like) planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars): small, dense The outer Jovian (Jupiter-like) planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune): gaseous, giant, low density Pluto is an exception; it is an "icy planet". A pla ...
... The planets can be divided into two groups The inner terrestrial (Earth-like) planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars): small, dense The outer Jovian (Jupiter-like) planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune): gaseous, giant, low density Pluto is an exception; it is an "icy planet". A pla ...
Note: Bring the solved worksheet on Sunday, 21 st February 2016
... 5. Which best describes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? a. outer planets ...
... 5. Which best describes Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? a. outer planets ...
13.14 The Eight Planets
... relate to the process of scientific discovery? Scientists observed that Uranus was a plant; then they discovered that its motion was not smooth. They made a hypothesis that another object was tugging on Uranus. They predicted where the other object was; then they tested their hypothesis and discover ...
... relate to the process of scientific discovery? Scientists observed that Uranus was a plant; then they discovered that its motion was not smooth. They made a hypothesis that another object was tugging on Uranus. They predicted where the other object was; then they tested their hypothesis and discover ...
Unit 8.4 Solar System
... 3. Three spacecraft and the planets they visited: a. Mariner 1 (Mercury) b. Voyager 1 (Jupiter) c. Venus Express (Venus) 4. a. Pluto lost its status as a planet in 2006. b. Pluto is regarded as a dwarf planet because normal planets have enough gravity to sweep their orbits clear of debris, whereas t ...
... 3. Three spacecraft and the planets they visited: a. Mariner 1 (Mercury) b. Voyager 1 (Jupiter) c. Venus Express (Venus) 4. a. Pluto lost its status as a planet in 2006. b. Pluto is regarded as a dwarf planet because normal planets have enough gravity to sweep their orbits clear of debris, whereas t ...
Comparing Earth, Sun and Jupiter
... ¾ Motion is generally regular, but sometimes shows retrograde motion that was very difficult to explain in geocentric theories Led to use of epicycles ¾ In a heliocentric theory retrograde motion is a natural consequence of the inner planets orbiting more quickly than the outer planets • Distances ...
... ¾ Motion is generally regular, but sometimes shows retrograde motion that was very difficult to explain in geocentric theories Led to use of epicycles ¾ In a heliocentric theory retrograde motion is a natural consequence of the inner planets orbiting more quickly than the outer planets • Distances ...
Formation and evolution of the Solar System
The formation of the Solar System began 4.6 billion years ago with the gravitational collapse of a small part of a giant molecular cloud. Most of the collapsing mass collected in the center, forming the Sun, while the rest flattened into a protoplanetary disk out of which the planets, moons, asteroids, and other small Solar System bodies formed.This widely accepted model, known as the nebular hypothesis, was first developed in the 18th century by Emanuel Swedenborg, Immanuel Kant, and Pierre-Simon Laplace. Its subsequent development has interwoven a variety of scientific disciplines including astronomy, physics, geology, and planetary science. Since the dawn of the space age in the 1950s and the discovery of extrasolar planets in the 1990s, the model has been both challenged and refined to account for new observations.The Solar System has evolved considerably since its initial formation. Many moons have formed from circling discs of gas and dust around their parent planets, while other moons are thought to have formed independently and later been captured by their planets. Still others, such as the Moon, may be the result of giant collisions. Collisions between bodies have occurred continually up to the present day and have been central to the evolution of the Solar System. The positions of the planets often shifted due to gravitational interactions. This planetary migration is now thought to have been responsible for much of the Solar System's early evolution.In roughly 5 billion years, the Sun will cool and expand outward many times its current diameter (becoming a red giant), before casting off its outer layers as a planetary nebula and leaving behind a stellar remnant known as a white dwarf. In the far distant future, the gravity of passing stars will gradually reduce the Sun's retinue of planets. Some planets will be destroyed, others ejected into interstellar space. Ultimately, over the course of tens of billions of years, it is likely that the Sun will be left with none of the original bodies in orbit around it.