The Solar System Information Pack
... Home Educators Document The Solar System Experience Friday 21 October 2016 STRICTLY 7-11 year olds- spaces are restricted. The aim of this experience is to increase young learners’ understanding of the solar system, our planet and the International Space Station in a fun and engaging way. By using t ...
... Home Educators Document The Solar System Experience Friday 21 October 2016 STRICTLY 7-11 year olds- spaces are restricted. The aim of this experience is to increase young learners’ understanding of the solar system, our planet and the International Space Station in a fun and engaging way. By using t ...
Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler
... Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler • A few years before he died, Brahe hired Johannes Kepler to help in analyzing the data he had collected. • Brahe started him out on his hardest problem: determine the orbit of Mars. • Mars has the largest observed retrograde motion and no circular orbit could be found ...
... Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler • A few years before he died, Brahe hired Johannes Kepler to help in analyzing the data he had collected. • Brahe started him out on his hardest problem: determine the orbit of Mars. • Mars has the largest observed retrograde motion and no circular orbit could be found ...
The Night Sky
... Stars come in many sizes. Some are 100 to 200 times larger than the Sun, while others are smaller than Earth. ...
... Stars come in many sizes. Some are 100 to 200 times larger than the Sun, while others are smaller than Earth. ...
File - Mr. Wadnizak
... The further one mass is from another mass, the weaker the gravity. The closer, the more attraction they have. ...
... The further one mass is from another mass, the weaker the gravity. The closer, the more attraction they have. ...
Frostburg State Planetarium presents
... • South is where sun is highest in sky (in mid day) • West is about where sun sets each afternoon. ...
... • South is where sun is highest in sky (in mid day) • West is about where sun sets each afternoon. ...
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... Life of the Sun • Burns or converts H He via theromonuclear fusion in core • When hydrogen in the core is exhausted, converted into helium, the H-burning shell moves outward and the star expands • H-burning phase for another 5 billion years; inert He-core • Stars in H-burning phase are said to b ...
... Life of the Sun • Burns or converts H He via theromonuclear fusion in core • When hydrogen in the core is exhausted, converted into helium, the H-burning shell moves outward and the star expands • H-burning phase for another 5 billion years; inert He-core • Stars in H-burning phase are said to b ...
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... • In addition to the 4 Galilean satellites, 12 other moons of Jupiter have been discovered • Owing to Jupiter’s tidal effects all Galilean moons are ‘synchronous rotators’: they keep the same face towards Jupiter • Voyager also found a ring around Jupiter, in between two small moons before Io • Late ...
... • In addition to the 4 Galilean satellites, 12 other moons of Jupiter have been discovered • Owing to Jupiter’s tidal effects all Galilean moons are ‘synchronous rotators’: they keep the same face towards Jupiter • Voyager also found a ring around Jupiter, in between two small moons before Io • Late ...
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... • In addition to the 4 Galilean satellites, 12 other moons of Jupiter have been discovered • Owing to Jupiter’s tidal effects all Galilean moons are ‘synchronous rotators’: they keep the same face towards Jupiter • Voyager also found a ring around Jupiter, in between two small moons before Io • Late ...
... • In addition to the 4 Galilean satellites, 12 other moons of Jupiter have been discovered • Owing to Jupiter’s tidal effects all Galilean moons are ‘synchronous rotators’: they keep the same face towards Jupiter • Voyager also found a ring around Jupiter, in between two small moons before Io • Late ...
Inferior planets.
... is called dynamics, as opposed to what Kepler did, kinematics, a description of motion. Newton’s starting assumption: there is some kind of force of attraction between all things in the universe. Let’s call it gravity. It is responsible for holding the planets in their orbits. What kind of force do ...
... is called dynamics, as opposed to what Kepler did, kinematics, a description of motion. Newton’s starting assumption: there is some kind of force of attraction between all things in the universe. Let’s call it gravity. It is responsible for holding the planets in their orbits. What kind of force do ...
Lecture 1
... Rapidly developing subject - first extrasolar planet around an ordinary star only discovered in 1995 by Mayor & Queloz. Observations are secure, but theory is still developing ... http://star-www.st-and.ac.uk/~srk1/as3012/ ...
... Rapidly developing subject - first extrasolar planet around an ordinary star only discovered in 1995 by Mayor & Queloz. Observations are secure, but theory is still developing ... http://star-www.st-and.ac.uk/~srk1/as3012/ ...
PLANETARY MOTION
... According to the geocentric model, each planet moves around the Earth along a little circle that is itself orbiting on a larger circle. The little circle is called “epicycle”, the larger one “deferent”. A planet moving on epicycles and deferents, if observed form Earth, appears to have a forward and ...
... According to the geocentric model, each planet moves around the Earth along a little circle that is itself orbiting on a larger circle. The little circle is called “epicycle”, the larger one “deferent”. A planet moving on epicycles and deferents, if observed form Earth, appears to have a forward and ...
PLANETARY MOTION G. Iafrate(a) and M. Ramella(a) (a) INAF
... According to the geocentric model, each planet moves around the Earth along a little circle that is itself orbiting on a larger circle. The little circle is called “epicycle”, the larger one “deferent”. A planet moving on epicycles and deferents, if observed form Earth, appears to have a forward and ...
... According to the geocentric model, each planet moves around the Earth along a little circle that is itself orbiting on a larger circle. The little circle is called “epicycle”, the larger one “deferent”. A planet moving on epicycles and deferents, if observed form Earth, appears to have a forward and ...
Astronomy 1010
... Charon, Pluto’s Moon Pluto has a bump that moved from side to side with a period of 6.4 days The discovery of Charon enabled astronomers to determine Pluto’s mass (Kepler’s 3rd law). Pluto’s rotation axis is tipped 118o relative to its orbit it rotates backwards relative to most of other planets ...
... Charon, Pluto’s Moon Pluto has a bump that moved from side to side with a period of 6.4 days The discovery of Charon enabled astronomers to determine Pluto’s mass (Kepler’s 3rd law). Pluto’s rotation axis is tipped 118o relative to its orbit it rotates backwards relative to most of other planets ...
Formation of the Solar System
... Gravity is a force of attraction between two objects. Gravity gets stronger as objects get bigger and closer together. The bigger the object, the more gravitational pull it will have on nearby objects. The Earth is so big, that it is able to pull the pieces of paper to its surface. ...
... Gravity is a force of attraction between two objects. Gravity gets stronger as objects get bigger and closer together. The bigger the object, the more gravitational pull it will have on nearby objects. The Earth is so big, that it is able to pull the pieces of paper to its surface. ...
astronomy ch 2 edit 1 - Fort Thomas Independent Schools
... clues suggesting that Earth is not the center of the universe the scientific revolution that dethroned Earth from its location at the center of the universe Copernicus’s argument that the planets orbit the Sun why the direction of motion of the planets on the celestial sphere sometimes appears to ch ...
... clues suggesting that Earth is not the center of the universe the scientific revolution that dethroned Earth from its location at the center of the universe Copernicus’s argument that the planets orbit the Sun why the direction of motion of the planets on the celestial sphere sometimes appears to ch ...
A Short History of the Origin of Modern Astronomy What is a “Theory
... changes as one travels north or south ...
... changes as one travels north or south ...
astronomy history time machine
... clues suggesting that Earth is not the center of the universe the scientific revolution that dethroned Earth from its location at the center of the universe Copernicus’s argument that the planets orbit the Sun why the direction of motion of the planets on the celestial sphere sometimes appears to ch ...
... clues suggesting that Earth is not the center of the universe the scientific revolution that dethroned Earth from its location at the center of the universe Copernicus’s argument that the planets orbit the Sun why the direction of motion of the planets on the celestial sphere sometimes appears to ch ...
Lecture 13
... planets) exert a gravitational tug on the planets • We can use the Astrometric Technique to simple watch the position of the star changing • We can use the Doppler Technique to observe the effects of the star moving – Can figure out lots of properties of the orbit using physical laws ...
... planets) exert a gravitational tug on the planets • We can use the Astrometric Technique to simple watch the position of the star changing • We can use the Doppler Technique to observe the effects of the star moving – Can figure out lots of properties of the orbit using physical laws ...
Sacred Fire – Our Sun - University of Louisville
... ● Kepler’s laws describe common features of the motions of orbiting objects, including their elliptical paths around the sun. Orbits may change due to the gravitational effects from, or collisions with, other objects in the solar system. (HSESS1-4) ● Cyclical changes in the shape of Earth’s orbit ar ...
... ● Kepler’s laws describe common features of the motions of orbiting objects, including their elliptical paths around the sun. Orbits may change due to the gravitational effects from, or collisions with, other objects in the solar system. (HSESS1-4) ● Cyclical changes in the shape of Earth’s orbit ar ...
PHYS 390 Lecture 9 - Planetary atmospheres 9
... • probably once contained a large amount of H2O, which was driven out by high temperatures; atmospheric deuterium:hydrogen ratio is 0.016, compared to 0.00016 on Earth, suggesting evaporation from upper atmosphere • surface is highly volcanic, extensive lava flows in last 500 million years Earth: • ...
... • probably once contained a large amount of H2O, which was driven out by high temperatures; atmospheric deuterium:hydrogen ratio is 0.016, compared to 0.00016 on Earth, suggesting evaporation from upper atmosphere • surface is highly volcanic, extensive lava flows in last 500 million years Earth: • ...
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... The other planets of the solar system lie approximately but not exactly on the ecliptic: their orbits lie on planes which are at an angle to the ecliptic plane. This angle is called their orbital inclination i. The Earth’s orbit is also not perfectly circular: it is an ellipse, whose deviation from ...
... The other planets of the solar system lie approximately but not exactly on the ecliptic: their orbits lie on planes which are at an angle to the ecliptic plane. This angle is called their orbital inclination i. The Earth’s orbit is also not perfectly circular: it is an ellipse, whose deviation from ...
Geology/Physics 360
... The moon goes through its cycle of phases in 29.5 days however the sidereal month is the time the moon takes to complete an orbit relative to the distant stars of one complete cycle. This we bring into play a new time system and a new concept of measuring time. Sidereal time or time according to the ...
... The moon goes through its cycle of phases in 29.5 days however the sidereal month is the time the moon takes to complete an orbit relative to the distant stars of one complete cycle. This we bring into play a new time system and a new concept of measuring time. Sidereal time or time according to the ...
PPT - FLYPARSONS.org
... New Stars – Discovered that his telescopes revealed far more stars than are accessible to the unaided eye. ...
... New Stars – Discovered that his telescopes revealed far more stars than are accessible to the unaided eye. ...
Satellite system (astronomy)
A satellite system is a set of gravitationally bound objects in orbit around a planetary mass object or minor planet. Generally speaking, it is a set of natural satellites (moons), although such systems may also consist of bodies such as circumplanetary disks, ring systems, moonlets, minor-planet moons and artificial satellites any of which may themselves have satellite systems of their own. Some satellite systems have complex interactions with both their parent and other moons, including magnetic, tidal, atmospheric and orbital interactions such as orbital resonances and libration. Individually major satellite objects are designated in Roman numerals. Satellite systems are referred to either by the possessive adjectives of their primary (e.g. ""Jovian system""), or less commonly by the name of their primary (e.g. ""Jupiter system""). Where only one satellite is known, or it is a binary orbiting a common centre of gravity, it may be referred to using the hyphenated names of the primary and major satellite (e.g. the ""Earth-Moon system"").Many Solar System objects are known to possess satellite systems, though their origin is still unclear. Notable examples include the largest satellite system, the Jovian system, with 67 known moons (including the large Galilean moons) and the Saturnian System with 62 known moons (and the most visible ring system in the Solar System). Both satellite systems are large and diverse. In fact all of the giant planets of the Solar System possess large satellite systems as well as planetary rings, and it is inferred that this is a general pattern. Several objects farther from the Sun also have satellite systems consisting of multiple moons, including the complex Plutonian system where multiple objects orbit a common center of mass, as well as many asteroids and plutinos. Apart from the Earth-Moon system and Mars' system of two tiny natural satellites, the other terrestrial planets are generally not considered satellite systems, although some have been orbited by artificial satellites originating from Earth.Little is known of satellite systems beyond the Solar System, although it is inferred that natural satellites are common. J1407b is an example of an extrasolar satellite system. It is also theorised that Rogue planets ejected from their planetary system could retain a system of satellites.