The Sun, The Moon and The Earth
... • The sun gives lots of energy on earth we see the suns energy as light and heat • The sun appears to be yellow but it is actually white the earths atmosphere makes it look yellow ...
... • The sun gives lots of energy on earth we see the suns energy as light and heat • The sun appears to be yellow but it is actually white the earths atmosphere makes it look yellow ...
planet
... – has sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (a nearly round shape), and – has "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit. ...
... – has sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (a nearly round shape), and – has "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit. ...
early views of the universe
... 1. Venus - size changes as an object gets closer or further away from us. This would not happen if Venus was revolving around the Earth in a circular orbit as predicted by Aristotle and Ptolemy Venus video ...
... 1. Venus - size changes as an object gets closer or further away from us. This would not happen if Venus was revolving around the Earth in a circular orbit as predicted by Aristotle and Ptolemy Venus video ...
ASTR 101 Deming EXAM II November 18 OFFICE HRS in CSS
... Stellar properties—how do astronomers determine motion, distance, brightness, luminosity, temperature, size, mass? (handouts) What did you do in labs 6, 7 and 8? What stellar properties were used/determined? How are studies of binary stars useful? How does the HR diagram help astronomers understand ...
... Stellar properties—how do astronomers determine motion, distance, brightness, luminosity, temperature, size, mass? (handouts) What did you do in labs 6, 7 and 8? What stellar properties were used/determined? How are studies of binary stars useful? How does the HR diagram help astronomers understand ...
Bringing Our Solar System to Life Grade 5 Overview Since the Solar
... The classroom contains roughly 20 fifth graders. The genders in the classroom are about even. These students have had one prior lesson on the solar system and its planets which was presented in a lecture form, with pictures, by the teacher. The setting of the school is rural. 5.2.1 Recognize that ou ...
... The classroom contains roughly 20 fifth graders. The genders in the classroom are about even. These students have had one prior lesson on the solar system and its planets which was presented in a lecture form, with pictures, by the teacher. The setting of the school is rural. 5.2.1 Recognize that ou ...
Pocket Solar System Activity
... At this point, things start getting a little crowded. Fold the Sun to the Asteroid Belt mark and crease it. Place a mark for Mars on this fold (between the Sun and Asteroid Belt) and label it. How many more planets do we need to place? Three. Fold the Sun up to meet the line for Mars. Leave it folde ...
... At this point, things start getting a little crowded. Fold the Sun to the Asteroid Belt mark and crease it. Place a mark for Mars on this fold (between the Sun and Asteroid Belt) and label it. How many more planets do we need to place? Three. Fold the Sun up to meet the line for Mars. Leave it folde ...
CST Prep- 8th Grade Astronomy 19. Sketch a planet
... 64.The "hole" left in the ground from an asteroid impact is called a 65. There are two types of comets, what are they? 66. Does our solar system extend beyond the planets? ...
... 64.The "hole" left in the ground from an asteroid impact is called a 65. There are two types of comets, what are they? 66. Does our solar system extend beyond the planets? ...
Lesson Power Point
... Uranus, and Neptune are large spheres made up of mostly gases. That is why they are often called the gas giants. These planets are large and have many moons. ...
... Uranus, and Neptune are large spheres made up of mostly gases. That is why they are often called the gas giants. These planets are large and have many moons. ...
The movements of planets and other nearby objects are visible from
... bird and a plane flew overhead at the same time, you might think that the bird was faster. You would have this impression because the farther away a moving object is from you, the less it seems to move. Stars are always moving, but they are so far away that you cannot see their movements. Observers ...
... bird and a plane flew overhead at the same time, you might think that the bird was faster. You would have this impression because the farther away a moving object is from you, the less it seems to move. Stars are always moving, but they are so far away that you cannot see their movements. Observers ...
PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES HOMEWORK
... which is the total energy output of today’s Sun per second? (ans. 1x1038 reactions/sec). 1 Watt=1 Joule/sec. (5) (d) Calculate the total mass which should be burned/lost in one second? (ans: 6.68x1011 kg/sec) (5) (e) Assume that the present processes within the Sun will continue (not true) and the h ...
... which is the total energy output of today’s Sun per second? (ans. 1x1038 reactions/sec). 1 Watt=1 Joule/sec. (5) (d) Calculate the total mass which should be burned/lost in one second? (ans: 6.68x1011 kg/sec) (5) (e) Assume that the present processes within the Sun will continue (not true) and the h ...
Earth Science, 10th edition Chapter 21: Touring Our Solar System I
... 1. Most lie between Mars and Jupiter 2. Small bodies – largest (Ceres) is about 620 miles in diameter 3. Some have very eccentric orbits 4. Many of the recent impacts on the Moon and Earth were collisions with asteroids 5. Irregular shapes 6. Origin is uncertain B. Comets 1. Often compared to large, ...
... 1. Most lie between Mars and Jupiter 2. Small bodies – largest (Ceres) is about 620 miles in diameter 3. Some have very eccentric orbits 4. Many of the recent impacts on the Moon and Earth were collisions with asteroids 5. Irregular shapes 6. Origin is uncertain B. Comets 1. Often compared to large, ...
Solar System Formation
... astronomers in the early 1900s found with the nebular hypothesis: what sort of collapse could end up with most of the angular momentum in the solar system in Jupiter (biggish mass, big radius) but not in the Sun? ...
... astronomers in the early 1900s found with the nebular hypothesis: what sort of collapse could end up with most of the angular momentum in the solar system in Jupiter (biggish mass, big radius) but not in the Sun? ...
Solar System
... The planets in our solar system are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto ...
... The planets in our solar system are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto ...
supplemental educational materials PDF
... Astronomers are concerned that they might send the New Horizons spacecraft on a collision course with some space debris. They are counting on the spacecraft to send back amazing pictures of our faraway dwarf neighbor, and they do not want New Horizons to be destroyed before it makes its observations ...
... Astronomers are concerned that they might send the New Horizons spacecraft on a collision course with some space debris. They are counting on the spacecraft to send back amazing pictures of our faraway dwarf neighbor, and they do not want New Horizons to be destroyed before it makes its observations ...
SEM 1.4_Astronomy
... The Earth’s moon is a rocky satellite that is about one-quarter the diameter of the Earth and one-eighth the mass of the Earth. It is highly cratered and it lacks an atmosphere. Therefore, there is no erosion to eliminate traces of impacts from space objects. The Moon revolves around the Earth once ...
... The Earth’s moon is a rocky satellite that is about one-quarter the diameter of the Earth and one-eighth the mass of the Earth. It is highly cratered and it lacks an atmosphere. Therefore, there is no erosion to eliminate traces of impacts from space objects. The Moon revolves around the Earth once ...
Early Observers (The Beginnings of Astronomy)
... Favored an Earth-centered universe different from Ptolemy’s theory Thought that other planets revolved around the sun, and that the sun and moon revolved around the Earth. Theory incorrect, but made many precise observations of planets and stars. ...
... Favored an Earth-centered universe different from Ptolemy’s theory Thought that other planets revolved around the sun, and that the sun and moon revolved around the Earth. Theory incorrect, but made many precise observations of planets and stars. ...
handout 8 - Research 2
... In this worksheet, we’ll be using data from our solar system to compare scale. The sun’s mean equatorial radius (the distance from its geometric center to the surface) is 695,500 km. The earth’s mean equatorial radius is 6,378.14 kilometers. ...
... In this worksheet, we’ll be using data from our solar system to compare scale. The sun’s mean equatorial radius (the distance from its geometric center to the surface) is 695,500 km. The earth’s mean equatorial radius is 6,378.14 kilometers. ...
The Solar System: An Insider`s Guide
... have a small, rocky core, and an icy mantle that blends into the atmosphere. Neptune radiates almost three times as much heat energy as it gets from the distant Sun. Some of this excess heat is probably left over from the formation of this planet and some is generated by the slow collapse of the sur ...
... have a small, rocky core, and an icy mantle that blends into the atmosphere. Neptune radiates almost three times as much heat energy as it gets from the distant Sun. Some of this excess heat is probably left over from the formation of this planet and some is generated by the slow collapse of the sur ...
Use with the big book “A Tour of the Planets” Photocopy questions
... students place a Post It Note as the teacher reads on the appropriate page when they hear the answer to their question. Continue and discuss what the students observed. Students will notice that one particular group will place many of their color Post It Note in the book. (The Think and Search Quest ...
... students place a Post It Note as the teacher reads on the appropriate page when they hear the answer to their question. Continue and discuss what the students observed. Students will notice that one particular group will place many of their color Post It Note in the book. (The Think and Search Quest ...
View Presentation Slides
... Stars have “life cycles”. They are “born” and they “die” but are not alive like us. Stars like the Sun “die” by “puffing” off their outer layers of gas and dust. This process creates a beautiful variety of NEBULAE in the Milky Way GALAXY. ...
... Stars have “life cycles”. They are “born” and they “die” but are not alive like us. Stars like the Sun “die” by “puffing” off their outer layers of gas and dust. This process creates a beautiful variety of NEBULAE in the Milky Way GALAXY. ...
solar system - PAMS
... planet. It has a satellites named Charon that is roughly the same size as Pluto. “Pluto is a chunk of ice which controls nothing, its orbit is a slave to Neptune’s”. ...
... planet. It has a satellites named Charon that is roughly the same size as Pluto. “Pluto is a chunk of ice which controls nothing, its orbit is a slave to Neptune’s”. ...
Lecture on Planetary Configurations
... The angle between the Sun and an inferior planet as seen from Earth At Maximum Elongation, the planet reflects the most amount of sunlight, appears at its brightest ...
... The angle between the Sun and an inferior planet as seen from Earth At Maximum Elongation, the planet reflects the most amount of sunlight, appears at its brightest ...
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.