Sample Teacher PPT Brick Vocabulary
... for the key vocabulary of the week Step 2: Give 1 word to a team at a random, ask them to perform their charade for the other teams to solve in 30 seconds. The team that provides the correct solution first ...
... for the key vocabulary of the week Step 2: Give 1 word to a team at a random, ask them to perform their charade for the other teams to solve in 30 seconds. The team that provides the correct solution first ...
Solar System Formation, Earth, Mercury, and the Moon (Professor
... material thrown out by the impact. The impact digs through to a deeper, lightercolored layer. Over time, ultraviolet light from the sun darkens the rays. So, craters with bight rays must be very ...
... material thrown out by the impact. The impact digs through to a deeper, lightercolored layer. Over time, ultraviolet light from the sun darkens the rays. So, craters with bight rays must be very ...
Chapter 2: Emergence of Modern Astronomy
... • 3 - Reasoning must agree with observations • Use these 3 fundamentals to form a model of nature – a conceptual representation used to explain and predict an observed event. • Greeks formed many models to explain astronomy and some still exist today. ...
... • 3 - Reasoning must agree with observations • Use these 3 fundamentals to form a model of nature – a conceptual representation used to explain and predict an observed event. • Greeks formed many models to explain astronomy and some still exist today. ...
Earths Place in the Universe
... • A disk made of stars orbiting a central point in the disk. • Our sun is just 1 of 100 billion stars that make up the milky way. • It is difficult to determine its size and shape because we are located in the milky way. • The solar system is located in an outer edge of the disc-shaped Milky Way Gal ...
... • A disk made of stars orbiting a central point in the disk. • Our sun is just 1 of 100 billion stars that make up the milky way. • It is difficult to determine its size and shape because we are located in the milky way. • The solar system is located in an outer edge of the disc-shaped Milky Way Gal ...
The Origin of Our Solar System
... • When our cloud of spinning matter was spinning as “fast as it could,” the disk began to shed layers – leaving behind rings of matter. This is a painting of the early solar system, according to Laplace, from NASA’s website. ...
... • When our cloud of spinning matter was spinning as “fast as it could,” the disk began to shed layers – leaving behind rings of matter. This is a painting of the early solar system, according to Laplace, from NASA’s website. ...
Alien Earths Floorplan (3,000 sq. ft) Major Exhibit Areas
... interstellar cloud. The cloud naturally heats up and spins faster as it collapses. Collisions between particles flatten the cloud into a disk. 2. The Sun and planets start to form in this spinning, flattened disk (protoplanetary disk), with the Sun at the hottest central part. 3. In our Solar System ...
... interstellar cloud. The cloud naturally heats up and spins faster as it collapses. Collisions between particles flatten the cloud into a disk. 2. The Sun and planets start to form in this spinning, flattened disk (protoplanetary disk), with the Sun at the hottest central part. 3. In our Solar System ...
Chapter 19
... A comet is a small body of ice, rock, and cosmic dust loosely packed together that follows an elliptical orbit that gives off gas and dust in the form of a tail as it passes close to the sun. By studying comets, scientist have gained important information about the material that made the solar syst ...
... A comet is a small body of ice, rock, and cosmic dust loosely packed together that follows an elliptical orbit that gives off gas and dust in the form of a tail as it passes close to the sun. By studying comets, scientist have gained important information about the material that made the solar syst ...
4 Kepler`s Laws - NMSU Astronomy
... the Sun (“a”), the more slowly it will move. The more slowly it moves, the longer it takes to go around the Sun (“P”). The relation is P2 ∝ a3 , where P is the orbital period in years, while a is the average distance of the planet from the Sun, and the mathematical symbol for proportional is represe ...
... the Sun (“a”), the more slowly it will move. The more slowly it moves, the longer it takes to go around the Sun (“P”). The relation is P2 ∝ a3 , where P is the orbital period in years, while a is the average distance of the planet from the Sun, and the mathematical symbol for proportional is represe ...
July - Magic Valley Astronomical Society
... made up of violently rotating masses of gas. Resembling When Neptune's identity was finally uncovered in 1846, it Jupiter's Great Red Spot, but measuring about half the was because of the discovery of another planet, Uranus. size, the area was nicknamed the Great Dark Spot. The Astronomers had noted ...
... made up of violently rotating masses of gas. Resembling When Neptune's identity was finally uncovered in 1846, it Jupiter's Great Red Spot, but measuring about half the was because of the discovery of another planet, Uranus. size, the area was nicknamed the Great Dark Spot. The Astronomers had noted ...
Sir Isaac Newton
... Egypt) saw the sun at an angle on that day. The angular displacement was measured. Using simple geometry, he calculated the circumference and the radius of the Earth. The result was within 1 percent accuracy of the figure known today. ...
... Egypt) saw the sun at an angle on that day. The angular displacement was measured. Using simple geometry, he calculated the circumference and the radius of the Earth. The result was within 1 percent accuracy of the figure known today. ...
Slide 1
... • Object detected has colors of star and is ~60 times brighter in optical than a Jupiter mass planet • IR observations rule out planets more massive than 3 Jupiters • Circum-planetary disk to account for optical flux? • Mass of planet is not known. Eugene Chiang’s group suggest a larger planet than ...
... • Object detected has colors of star and is ~60 times brighter in optical than a Jupiter mass planet • IR observations rule out planets more massive than 3 Jupiters • Circum-planetary disk to account for optical flux? • Mass of planet is not known. Eugene Chiang’s group suggest a larger planet than ...
Origin of the Solar System
... The nebular theory also explains how the planets could have formed. Weak surface forces held dust grains together, forming loose balls of dust. As these balls of dust collided, they grew larger and larger. ...
... The nebular theory also explains how the planets could have formed. Weak surface forces held dust grains together, forming loose balls of dust. As these balls of dust collided, they grew larger and larger. ...
Astronomy Final Study Guide - With Answers!!– Name: **This will be
... We live in a spiral galaxy. Spiral galaxies usually have a lot of gas and dust in their spiral arms for new stars to form there. Irregular galaxies don’t have a definite shape (maybe because they are very young), and elliptical galaxies are older galaxies that do not have very much gas or dust, so t ...
... We live in a spiral galaxy. Spiral galaxies usually have a lot of gas and dust in their spiral arms for new stars to form there. Irregular galaxies don’t have a definite shape (maybe because they are very young), and elliptical galaxies are older galaxies that do not have very much gas or dust, so t ...
Slide 1
... Distances in Space Distances in space are so large that well-known units such as kilometres are almost meaningless. ...
... Distances in Space Distances in space are so large that well-known units such as kilometres are almost meaningless. ...
8th Grade Comprehensive Science
... • Theories are well tested scientific beliefs. They are believed to be true but could change or modify if new information were to be obtained. ...
... • Theories are well tested scientific beliefs. They are believed to be true but could change or modify if new information were to be obtained. ...
Space - SSHS Science 9
... • The International Astronomical Union (IAU) formally downgraded Pluto from an official planet to a dwarf planet. • According to the new rules a planet meets three criteria: it must orbit the Sun, it must be big enough for gravity to squash it into a round ball, and it must have cleared other things ...
... • The International Astronomical Union (IAU) formally downgraded Pluto from an official planet to a dwarf planet. • According to the new rules a planet meets three criteria: it must orbit the Sun, it must be big enough for gravity to squash it into a round ball, and it must have cleared other things ...
Planet migration
... Planets form in massive (>>1Mjupiter) circumstellar disks NB the idea that planets form in circumstellar disks (the solar nebula) goes back to Swedenborg (1734), Kant (1755) and Laplace (1796) (2) formation took less than a few Myr Planets form in circumstellar disks in a few Myr ...
... Planets form in massive (>>1Mjupiter) circumstellar disks NB the idea that planets form in circumstellar disks (the solar nebula) goes back to Swedenborg (1734), Kant (1755) and Laplace (1796) (2) formation took less than a few Myr Planets form in circumstellar disks in a few Myr ...
Jupiter-Mars Encounter 17 October 2015
... At the present time all three of these naked-eye planets are slowly moving eastward under the tail of Leo the lion. Since Mars is closer to the sun than is Jupiter, the red planet moves more swiftly and the gap between the two is closing. On the morning of October 17 that gap will be a mere 0.4 degr ...
... At the present time all three of these naked-eye planets are slowly moving eastward under the tail of Leo the lion. Since Mars is closer to the sun than is Jupiter, the red planet moves more swiftly and the gap between the two is closing. On the morning of October 17 that gap will be a mere 0.4 degr ...
Wind Patterns - Mrs. Shaw's Science Site
... Most small objects are found in three areas: •Asteroid belt- region of the solar system between Jupiter and Mars. •Kuiper belt- extends to about 100 times Earth’s distance from the sun. •Oort cloud- stretches out more than 1,000 times the distance between the sun and Neptune. DWARF PLANETS •These ob ...
... Most small objects are found in three areas: •Asteroid belt- region of the solar system between Jupiter and Mars. •Kuiper belt- extends to about 100 times Earth’s distance from the sun. •Oort cloud- stretches out more than 1,000 times the distance between the sun and Neptune. DWARF PLANETS •These ob ...
α Cen A + iodine cell spectrum - Department of Physics and Astronomy
... Results from planet formation simulations by Guedes et al. for α CenB. All simulations yield 1 to 4 Earth-mass planets of which 42% lie inside the star’s habitable zone (dashed lines). The planetary configuration of the solar system is shown for reference. Starting conditions: N lunar-mass bodies in ...
... Results from planet formation simulations by Guedes et al. for α CenB. All simulations yield 1 to 4 Earth-mass planets of which 42% lie inside the star’s habitable zone (dashed lines). The planetary configuration of the solar system is shown for reference. Starting conditions: N lunar-mass bodies in ...
IAU definition of planet
The definition of planet set in Prague in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) states that, in the Solar System, a planet is a celestial body which: is in orbit around the Sun, has sufficient mass to assume hydrostatic equilibrium (a nearly round shape), and has ""cleared the neighborhood"" around its orbit.A non-satellite body fulfilling only the first two of these criteria is classified as a ""dwarf planet"". According to the IAU, ""planets and dwarf planets are two distinct classes of objects"". A non-satellite body fulfilling only the first criterion is termed a ""small Solar System body"" (SSSB). Initial drafts planned to include dwarf planets as a subcategory of planets, but because this could potentially have led to the addition of several dozens of planets into the Solar System, this draft was eventually dropped. The definition was a controversial one and has drawn both support and criticism from different astronomers, but has remained in use.According to this definition, there are eight planets in the Solar System. The definition distinguishes planets from smaller bodies and is not useful outside the Solar System, where smaller bodies cannot be found yet. Extrasolar planets, or exoplanets, are covered separately under a complementary 2003 draft guideline for the definition of planets, which distinguishes them from dwarf stars, which are larger.