The Final IAU Resolution on the definition of `planet`
... 6B introduces the name "plutonian objects" for this -------------------------------------------------------------------class. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines ...
... 6B introduces the name "plutonian objects" for this -------------------------------------------------------------------class. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines ...
Our Solar System!
... Jupiter, the 5th planet from the sun, is the largest gas planet in our solar system. Unseen in this photo are the three rings orbiting Jupiter. More than 61 moons orbit Jupiter, so it is sometimes called a“mini solar system.” Bands of color encircle the gaseous surface of Jupiter. Its Great Red Spot ...
... Jupiter, the 5th planet from the sun, is the largest gas planet in our solar system. Unseen in this photo are the three rings orbiting Jupiter. More than 61 moons orbit Jupiter, so it is sometimes called a“mini solar system.” Bands of color encircle the gaseous surface of Jupiter. Its Great Red Spot ...
Uranus
... Mink discovered it when Uranus passed in front of a star and was noticed that there were dips in the brightness. 13 rings, Color: Blue-ish, clear. It is made of Black dust particles, large rocks, and helium. ...
... Mink discovered it when Uranus passed in front of a star and was noticed that there were dips in the brightness. 13 rings, Color: Blue-ish, clear. It is made of Black dust particles, large rocks, and helium. ...
Powerpoint slides - Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences
... • First detected by occultation in 1988 (perihelion) • Atmospheric pressure is determined by vapour pressure of nitrogen (strongly temperature-dependent) • More recent detection (Elliot et al. Nature 2003) shows that the atmosphere has expanded (pressure has doubled) despite the fact that Pluto is n ...
... • First detected by occultation in 1988 (perihelion) • Atmospheric pressure is determined by vapour pressure of nitrogen (strongly temperature-dependent) • More recent detection (Elliot et al. Nature 2003) shows that the atmosphere has expanded (pressure has doubled) despite the fact that Pluto is n ...
Beyond Neptune: The Kuiper Belt
... • – It fails the first criterion for a planet – A planet will gravitationally clear its own orbital range • – It has a highly inclined and elliptical orbit which crosses Neptune: an orbit like a comet, not a planet. • – it’s one of thousands of small objects out there; a new class of objects – the K ...
... • – It fails the first criterion for a planet – A planet will gravitationally clear its own orbital range • – It has a highly inclined and elliptical orbit which crosses Neptune: an orbit like a comet, not a planet. • – it’s one of thousands of small objects out there; a new class of objects – the K ...
Solar System Lesson Plan Grades K-2
... covered with craters, volcanoes, and large canyons. Mars is reddish in color. Mars has two small moons. It is named for the Roman god of war. 5. Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, with a diameter of 142,980 kilometers, more than 11 times wider than the Earth. Jupiter orbits the Sun o ...
... covered with craters, volcanoes, and large canyons. Mars is reddish in color. Mars has two small moons. It is named for the Roman god of war. 5. Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, with a diameter of 142,980 kilometers, more than 11 times wider than the Earth. Jupiter orbits the Sun o ...
Saturn
... family of known moons grew. In 1966 Epimetheus and Janus were discovered. By the time Cassini-Huygens was launched in 1997, Saturn's moon count had reached 18. The number of known moons soon increased with high-resolution imaging techniques used on ground-based telescopes. The Cassini mission has di ...
... family of known moons grew. In 1966 Epimetheus and Janus were discovered. By the time Cassini-Huygens was launched in 1997, Saturn's moon count had reached 18. The number of known moons soon increased with high-resolution imaging techniques used on ground-based telescopes. The Cassini mission has di ...
Pluto - knoMi
... seemed to wander among fixed stars. Our solar system's planet count has soared as high as 15 before it was decided that some discoveries were different and should be called asteroids. ...
... seemed to wander among fixed stars. Our solar system's planet count has soared as high as 15 before it was decided that some discoveries were different and should be called asteroids. ...
The orbital history of two periodic comets encountering Saturn
... very close encounter (in 1991) to Saturn significantly changing the orbit into the present one (Fig. 5). To predict the real orbit before the encounter in 1991 is not possible but we integrated all orbits 10000 years backwards in time and the result is shown in Fig. 6. Of all orbits only 13 had peri ...
... very close encounter (in 1991) to Saturn significantly changing the orbit into the present one (Fig. 5). To predict the real orbit before the encounter in 1991 is not possible but we integrated all orbits 10000 years backwards in time and the result is shown in Fig. 6. Of all orbits only 13 had peri ...
Meteorite
... • Pluto’s orbit is tilted and significantly elliptical. • Neptune orbits three times during the time Pluto orbits twice — resonance prevents a collision. Orbits of Neptune and Pluto ...
... • Pluto’s orbit is tilted and significantly elliptical. • Neptune orbits three times during the time Pluto orbits twice — resonance prevents a collision. Orbits of Neptune and Pluto ...
Lesson Title: Layers of the Earth
... Materials: Planet Book worksheets copies and nine sentence strips, each labeled with one of the following: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Lesson Overview: TTW begin class with an, "Attention Getter.” TTW go over the objectives for the day. TLW make a model of ...
... Materials: Planet Book worksheets copies and nine sentence strips, each labeled with one of the following: Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Lesson Overview: TTW begin class with an, "Attention Getter.” TTW go over the objectives for the day. TLW make a model of ...
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... large volumes of water exist as buried ice in Mars' polar regions. Evidence suggests that shallow ground ice is likely buried in many other regions of the planet as well. It is possible that liquid water may be found at greater depths below the ice, although none has yet been detected. 23. The order ...
... large volumes of water exist as buried ice in Mars' polar regions. Evidence suggests that shallow ground ice is likely buried in many other regions of the planet as well. It is possible that liquid water may be found at greater depths below the ice, although none has yet been detected. 23. The order ...
Kepler`s Third Law
... to discover the order of distance of the planets. One of the earliest and greatest philosophers, Aristotle, lived in Greece in about 350 B.C.E. His views of the Universe dominated thinking for 1800 years. Aristotle believed that the Earth was the center of the Universe and that the planets, the Sun, ...
... to discover the order of distance of the planets. One of the earliest and greatest philosophers, Aristotle, lived in Greece in about 350 B.C.E. His views of the Universe dominated thinking for 1800 years. Aristotle believed that the Earth was the center of the Universe and that the planets, the Sun, ...
The Kuiper Belt
... Neptune -- but will eventually move as much as 10 times farther away (around 990 AUs) in a 12,260-year orbit around Sol; it's orbital semi-major axis is around 532 AUs with an extremely high eccentricity of 0.857. Based on its current distance, brightness, and presumed albedo or ability to reflect l ...
... Neptune -- but will eventually move as much as 10 times farther away (around 990 AUs) in a 12,260-year orbit around Sol; it's orbital semi-major axis is around 532 AUs with an extremely high eccentricity of 0.857. Based on its current distance, brightness, and presumed albedo or ability to reflect l ...
What is a Planet?
... that filled the gap between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, according to Bode’s Law (later shown to be specious). But in 1802 Olbers discovered Pallas, with practically the same semi-major axis as Ceres. Herschel recognized that both unresolved objects must be far smaller than planets and proposed n ...
... that filled the gap between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, according to Bode’s Law (later shown to be specious). But in 1802 Olbers discovered Pallas, with practically the same semi-major axis as Ceres. Herschel recognized that both unresolved objects must be far smaller than planets and proposed n ...
GEOLOGY 306 Laboratory
... convert the mean distance between the terrestrial planets and the Sun into cm and plot their location on the strip provided. Don’t forget to name each planet and to include arrows to represent the orbit and spin directions for each planet. Also, write the word “Asteroids” 258 million scale miles fro ...
... convert the mean distance between the terrestrial planets and the Sun into cm and plot their location on the strip provided. Don’t forget to name each planet and to include arrows to represent the orbit and spin directions for each planet. Also, write the word “Asteroids” 258 million scale miles fro ...
Patterns in the Solar System
... also). Use large points to represent the four terrestrial planets and place them at the appropriate distance from the Sun. Use the mean distance from the Sun in AUs listed in table 18.1 on the first page of this packet. Measure the scale below in either cm or mm to produce the scale of this model, f ...
... also). Use large points to represent the four terrestrial planets and place them at the appropriate distance from the Sun. Use the mean distance from the Sun in AUs listed in table 18.1 on the first page of this packet. Measure the scale below in either cm or mm to produce the scale of this model, f ...
Skymobile: Comet Demonstration
... Raise your hands if you know something that is solid. (Take some answers). That’s right! Your desk is solid. Your chair is solid. Your pencil is solid. Your books are solid. Anything that you can hold, sit on or stand on is solid. Now I’m going to show you something else that is solid. (Take out an ...
... Raise your hands if you know something that is solid. (Take some answers). That’s right! Your desk is solid. Your chair is solid. Your pencil is solid. Your books are solid. Anything that you can hold, sit on or stand on is solid. Now I’m going to show you something else that is solid. (Take out an ...
American Scientist - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
... tried to squeeze another planet in between the existing ones, the resulting gravitational disturbances would dynamically excite the system, leading to a collision or ejection before the system could settle down again. Laskar surmised that the solar system, at each stage of its evolution, was always ...
... tried to squeeze another planet in between the existing ones, the resulting gravitational disturbances would dynamically excite the system, leading to a collision or ejection before the system could settle down again. Laskar surmised that the solar system, at each stage of its evolution, was always ...
1 Patterns in the Solar System (Chapter 18)
... 40. Explain the relationship between a planet’s period of rotation and period of revolution that would cause one side of a planet to face the Sun throughout its year. (Hint: think about our Moon, we typically only see one side of it each night.) (Rotation < Revolution; ...
... 40. Explain the relationship between a planet’s period of rotation and period of revolution that would cause one side of a planet to face the Sun throughout its year. (Hint: think about our Moon, we typically only see one side of it each night.) (Rotation < Revolution; ...
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... • It is considered a gas planet because it is composed of only gasses. Methane is one of the prominent gasses in it’s structure which is why it is blue. • Uranus has 16 moons* • Revolution Period: 83.75 Years* • Rotation Period: .72 days* ...
... • It is considered a gas planet because it is composed of only gasses. Methane is one of the prominent gasses in it’s structure which is why it is blue. • Uranus has 16 moons* • Revolution Period: 83.75 Years* • Rotation Period: .72 days* ...
Planets` Relative Positions - STAR DOME
... Discuss their findings. 6. Have students record in their Astronomy Journal what they have discovered and what might have surprised them as a result of this exercise. Draw the students’ attention to the fact that the planets travel in an ellipse, not a circle around the sun, and therefore, there ar ...
... Discuss their findings. 6. Have students record in their Astronomy Journal what they have discovered and what might have surprised them as a result of this exercise. Draw the students’ attention to the fact that the planets travel in an ellipse, not a circle around the sun, and therefore, there ar ...
Name of Planet
... History • Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered dwarf planets on February 18, 1930 • They got the dwarf planet name its name from a roman god of the underworld • Photo of Pluto’s symbol is ...
... History • Clyde W. Tombaugh discovered dwarf planets on February 18, 1930 • They got the dwarf planet name its name from a roman god of the underworld • Photo of Pluto’s symbol is ...
The Solar System Activities Outline
... Nearby planets, especially the larger planets like Jupiter and Saturn can disturb comets’ orbits. These giant bodies have enough gravitational pull to change a comet’s orbit dramatically, flinging it in toward the Sun, into a planet, or out farther into deep space never to return. Comet Shoemaker-Le ...
... Nearby planets, especially the larger planets like Jupiter and Saturn can disturb comets’ orbits. These giant bodies have enough gravitational pull to change a comet’s orbit dramatically, flinging it in toward the Sun, into a planet, or out farther into deep space never to return. Comet Shoemaker-Le ...