Components of the Solar System Learning Targets
... Venus hottest, greenhouse effect, dense atmosphere, rotates opposite of other planets, Earth’s sister (because of size only), layers, volcanic activity, longest day (day is longer than its year), no moons, Earth liquid water, one moon, layers, atmosphere, greenhouse effect, volcanic activity, only p ...
... Venus hottest, greenhouse effect, dense atmosphere, rotates opposite of other planets, Earth’s sister (because of size only), layers, volcanic activity, longest day (day is longer than its year), no moons, Earth liquid water, one moon, layers, atmosphere, greenhouse effect, volcanic activity, only p ...
The Planets in our Solar System
... • The characteristics of each planet were determined by where each planet formed in relation to the Sun. • The various temperatures created different elements. • Heavier elements formed closer to the heat of the Sun, lighter elements formed farther from the Sun. ...
... • The characteristics of each planet were determined by where each planet formed in relation to the Sun. • The various temperatures created different elements. • Heavier elements formed closer to the heat of the Sun, lighter elements formed farther from the Sun. ...
For Creative Minds - Arbordale Publishing
... and Mars) are rocky. Moons (satellites) orbit planets. The Earth has one moon. Mercury and Venus do not have moons. Mars has two moons. Each of the outer planets has many moons. Scientists keep discovering more moons. Some moons have their own atmospheres (Saturn’s Titan) and some even have water). ...
... and Mars) are rocky. Moons (satellites) orbit planets. The Earth has one moon. Mercury and Venus do not have moons. Mars has two moons. Each of the outer planets has many moons. Scientists keep discovering more moons. Some moons have their own atmospheres (Saturn’s Titan) and some even have water). ...
Sample multiple choice questions for Exam 3
... Multiple Choice: 26 questions, 3 points each. Select the best answer to each of the questions below. Place your answer on the computer answer sheet provided. 1) The approximate dimensions of the frozen nucleus of a typical comet is a) 1-2 millimeters (pinhead-sized) b) 1-20 km (city-sized) c) 300 – ...
... Multiple Choice: 26 questions, 3 points each. Select the best answer to each of the questions below. Place your answer on the computer answer sheet provided. 1) The approximate dimensions of the frozen nucleus of a typical comet is a) 1-2 millimeters (pinhead-sized) b) 1-20 km (city-sized) c) 300 – ...
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... Polarization arises every time there is a mechanism that breaks the symmetry within the radiative source, or between the source and the observer. Examples include the presence of a magnetic field, the presence of collimated beams, or scattering by surfaces or particles. Thus, polarimetry is a very p ...
... Polarization arises every time there is a mechanism that breaks the symmetry within the radiative source, or between the source and the observer. Examples include the presence of a magnetic field, the presence of collimated beams, or scattering by surfaces or particles. Thus, polarimetry is a very p ...
New Worlds Observer
... Exo-planets are the planets that circle stars other than our Sun. There are probably 10,000 exo-planets within 10pc (30 light years) of the Earth. Indirect means have now found over 200. If we can observe them directly, we will have a new field of astronomy every bit as rich as extragalactic. ...
... Exo-planets are the planets that circle stars other than our Sun. There are probably 10,000 exo-planets within 10pc (30 light years) of the Earth. Indirect means have now found over 200. If we can observe them directly, we will have a new field of astronomy every bit as rich as extragalactic. ...
α Centauri: a double star - University of Canterbury
... Wiegert & Holman found stable orbits inside 2.34 AU, but unstable 3 to 70 AU from each star, provided i = 0° (coplanar with binary orbit). ...
... Wiegert & Holman found stable orbits inside 2.34 AU, but unstable 3 to 70 AU from each star, provided i = 0° (coplanar with binary orbit). ...
Lecture - Faculty
... system may bear little resemblance to its original form • This view is more in line with the “planetary migration” thought to occur even more dramatically in many extrasolar planet systems • It may be difficult to prove or disprove these models of our early solar system. The many unexplained propert ...
... system may bear little resemblance to its original form • This view is more in line with the “planetary migration” thought to occur even more dramatically in many extrasolar planet systems • It may be difficult to prove or disprove these models of our early solar system. The many unexplained propert ...
Circumstellar habitable zone
In astronomy and astrobiology, the circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ), or simply the habitable zone, is the region around a star within which planetary-mass objects with sufficient atmospheric pressure can support liquid water at their surfaces. The bounds of the CHZ are calculated using the known requirements of Earth's biosphere, its position in the Solar System and the amount of radiant energy it receives from the Sun. Due to the importance of liquid water to life as it exists on Earth, the nature of the CHZ and the objects within is believed to be instrumental in determining the scope and distribution of Earth-like extraterrestrial life and intelligence.The habitable zone is also called the Goldilocks zone, a metaphor of the children's fairy tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, in which a little girl chooses from sets of three items, ignoring the ones that are too extreme (large or small, hot or cold, etc.), and settling on the one in the middle, which is ""just right"".Since the concept was first presented in 1953, stars have been confirmed to possess a CHZ planet, including some systems that consist of multiple CHZ planets. Most such planets, being super-Earths or gas giants, are more massive than Earth, because such planets are easier to detect. On November 4, 2013, astronomers reported, based on Kepler data, that there could be as many as 40 billion Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars and red dwarfs in the Milky Way. 11 billion of these may be orbiting Sun-like stars. The nearest such planet may be 12 light-years away, according to the scientists. The CHZ is also of particular interest to the emerging field of habitability of natural satellites, because planetary-mass moons in the CHZ might outnumber planets.In subsequent decades, the CHZ concept began to be challenged as a primary criterion for life. Since the discovery of evidence for extraterrestrial liquid water, substantial quantities of it are now believed to occur outside the circumstellar habitable zone. Sustained by other energy sources, such as tidal heating or radioactive decay or pressurized by other non-atmospheric means, the basic conditions for water-dependent life may be found even in interstellar space, on rogue planets, or their moons. In addition, other circumstellar zones, where non-water solvents favorable to hypothetical life based on alternative biochemistries could exist in liquid form at the surface, have been proposed.