1. INTRODUCTION - Stanford University
... mid-March to 7¡.25 north in mid-September. Although the Ñux does not obviously show any dependence on latitude, we do Ðnd evidence for a dependence of the variance of the Ñux upon latitude. When data from 108 runs of the Homestake experiment are divided into four quartiles, sorted according to latit ...
... mid-March to 7¡.25 north in mid-September. Although the Ñux does not obviously show any dependence on latitude, we do Ðnd evidence for a dependence of the variance of the Ñux upon latitude. When data from 108 runs of the Homestake experiment are divided into four quartiles, sorted according to latit ...
UNIT LESSON PLAN
... If Neptune were hollow it could contain nearly 60 Earths Neptune orbits the Sun every 165 years It has 8 satellites, Triton being it’s largest Slide 6: IS PLUTO A PLANET? Pluto ...
... If Neptune were hollow it could contain nearly 60 Earths Neptune orbits the Sun every 165 years It has 8 satellites, Triton being it’s largest Slide 6: IS PLUTO A PLANET? Pluto ...
"Inner Oort cloud" -
... considered the edge of the Sun's orb of physical, gravitational, or dynamical influence. Within the cloud, comets are typically tens of millions of kilometers apart. They are weakly bound to the sun, and passing stars and other forces can readily change their orbits, sending them into the inner sola ...
... considered the edge of the Sun's orb of physical, gravitational, or dynamical influence. Within the cloud, comets are typically tens of millions of kilometers apart. They are weakly bound to the sun, and passing stars and other forces can readily change their orbits, sending them into the inner sola ...
Jupiter Planet
... was the first astronomer to observe Jupiter with a telescope, which he used to discover four of its moons. Astronomers also have used telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope that orbit Earth. NASA has sent eight spacecraft to Jupiter: Pioneer 10, Pioneer-Saturn, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Ulysses, Gal ...
... was the first astronomer to observe Jupiter with a telescope, which he used to discover four of its moons. Astronomers also have used telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope that orbit Earth. NASA has sent eight spacecraft to Jupiter: Pioneer 10, Pioneer-Saturn, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Ulysses, Gal ...
3rd GradeBook Notes for A Feast of Words…Earth and BeyondUnit
... meteoroids (MEE-tee-uh-roidz) – chunks of rock, metal, or other debris in space that are up to .6 mile (1km) in size orbits – travels around an object such as a sun or planet poles – the areas at the very north and very south of a sphere radiation – waves of energy that flow off of an object solar s ...
... meteoroids (MEE-tee-uh-roidz) – chunks of rock, metal, or other debris in space that are up to .6 mile (1km) in size orbits – travels around an object such as a sun or planet poles – the areas at the very north and very south of a sphere radiation – waves of energy that flow off of an object solar s ...
Unit: Exploring Planetary Systems (Science/Grade 8)
... influence others in the workplace. They have a clear understanding of integrity and act on this understanding in every decision. They use a variety of means to positively impact the directions and actions of a team or organization, and they apply insights into human behavior to change others’ action ...
... influence others in the workplace. They have a clear understanding of integrity and act on this understanding in every decision. They use a variety of means to positively impact the directions and actions of a team or organization, and they apply insights into human behavior to change others’ action ...
Visiting Pluto
... Investigate the New Horizons journey to Pluto and write a newspaper article describing your findings. Alternatively investigate current research on the possibility of a tenth planet. Things to think about: Who is your target audience? Use age appropriate language and themes. Write a headline tha ...
... Investigate the New Horizons journey to Pluto and write a newspaper article describing your findings. Alternatively investigate current research on the possibility of a tenth planet. Things to think about: Who is your target audience? Use age appropriate language and themes. Write a headline tha ...
SRMP Solar System Curriculum - American Museum of Natural History
... Hand out a Moons of Jupiter sheet to all students along with colored pencils or markers. Explain that this is a simulation of Galileo’s data. (In fact, this is an idealized simulation, in that the data are given every 12 hours exactly, and there are no “cloudy” days where observations could not be m ...
... Hand out a Moons of Jupiter sheet to all students along with colored pencils or markers. Explain that this is a simulation of Galileo’s data. (In fact, this is an idealized simulation, in that the data are given every 12 hours exactly, and there are no “cloudy” days where observations could not be m ...
Kinetic Studies of Nonrelativistic Young Supernova Remnant
... whether or not the shock structure and the particle spectra reach a steady state, and to what degree a parallel magnetic field renders shock formation more efficient. A secondary goal was to investigate the efficacy of particle preacceleration, which appears needed for their injection into a diffusi ...
... whether or not the shock structure and the particle spectra reach a steady state, and to what degree a parallel magnetic field renders shock formation more efficient. A secondary goal was to investigate the efficacy of particle preacceleration, which appears needed for their injection into a diffusi ...
Colburn Earth Science Museum - Asheville Museum of Science
... across hemispheres depending on the season. It is even believed that it snows on Pluto! These new findings shed light and present new evidence to the complexity of Pluto. Pluto is the largest body in a region of our solar system called the Kuiper belt. Similar to the asteroid belt (but much larger), ...
... across hemispheres depending on the season. It is even believed that it snows on Pluto! These new findings shed light and present new evidence to the complexity of Pluto. Pluto is the largest body in a region of our solar system called the Kuiper belt. Similar to the asteroid belt (but much larger), ...
And finally – our first mission to the last planet
... Since mankind started sending robots to other planets circling our Sun we know a lot more about them and their moons than by just using telescopes here on Earth. We have made maps of their surfaces and investigated their atmospheres and inner compositions, even tried to find life, whether ancient or ...
... Since mankind started sending robots to other planets circling our Sun we know a lot more about them and their moons than by just using telescopes here on Earth. We have made maps of their surfaces and investigated their atmospheres and inner compositions, even tried to find life, whether ancient or ...
ASTR 330: The Solar System Dr Conor Nixon Fall 2006
... • We will see that rings are themselves composed of millions and billions of small chunks each orbiting the parent planet and obeying Kepler’s laws of orbital motion - each piece in effect a tiny moon. • We will also see that rings may in fact be created by the catastrophic break-up of a moon or moo ...
... • We will see that rings are themselves composed of millions and billions of small chunks each orbiting the parent planet and obeying Kepler’s laws of orbital motion - each piece in effect a tiny moon. • We will also see that rings may in fact be created by the catastrophic break-up of a moon or moo ...
Development of a learning progression for the formation of the Solar
... initial observations of the world, and 3) it can “explain multiple, unified astronomical phenomena such that learning to explain an individual phenomenon helps the learner build in sophistication toward the big idea and, thus, toward explanations of other phenomena” (Plummer, 2012, p. 79). In brief, ...
... initial observations of the world, and 3) it can “explain multiple, unified astronomical phenomena such that learning to explain an individual phenomenon helps the learner build in sophistication toward the big idea and, thus, toward explanations of other phenomena” (Plummer, 2012, p. 79). In brief, ...
study of planetary magnetic fields
... in its outer core, which consists of liquid metallic hydrogen. Jupiter’s core is likely made of dense, molten liquid. Saturn: Saturn is one of the only planets whose magnetic field lines up with its axis of rotation. Its field is generated by liquid metallic hydrogen, circulating a rocky core. Its c ...
... in its outer core, which consists of liquid metallic hydrogen. Jupiter’s core is likely made of dense, molten liquid. Saturn: Saturn is one of the only planets whose magnetic field lines up with its axis of rotation. Its field is generated by liquid metallic hydrogen, circulating a rocky core. Its c ...
Winds of Main-Sequence Stars - Harvard
... Solar X-rays & magnetic flux • Empirically, does solar mass loss really scale with FX ~ Φ ? It depends on which field lines are considered! ...
... Solar X-rays & magnetic flux • Empirically, does solar mass loss really scale with FX ~ Φ ? It depends on which field lines are considered! ...
Spectral measurements of visible solar direct
... RG695. The experiment was conducted from June 1991 to May 1992 on the roof of the new building of the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG) at Helwan. The Linke turbidity factor for the integrated radiation, and the spectral attentuation coefficients of solar energy caused ...
... RG695. The experiment was conducted from June 1991 to May 1992 on the roof of the new building of the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG) at Helwan. The Linke turbidity factor for the integrated radiation, and the spectral attentuation coefficients of solar energy caused ...
The Solar System`s Post-Main Sequence Escape Boundary
... for these simulations, and use a second-order mixed-variable symplectic integrator from a modified version of the MERCURY integration package (Chambers 1999). All orbiting objects are treated as test particles for computational ease and so that they could be integrated simultaneously. Because μ is d ...
... for these simulations, and use a second-order mixed-variable symplectic integrator from a modified version of the MERCURY integration package (Chambers 1999). All orbiting objects are treated as test particles for computational ease and so that they could be integrated simultaneously. Because μ is d ...
2 Solar magnetic fields. - High Altitude Observatory
... owing to their particular areas of specialization, who can discuss both observations and theory relating to solar magnetism. In recent years I have tried to understand the physical problems presented by modern solar observations, and have offered some short courses and lectures which attempt to ident ...
... owing to their particular areas of specialization, who can discuss both observations and theory relating to solar magnetism. In recent years I have tried to understand the physical problems presented by modern solar observations, and have offered some short courses and lectures which attempt to ident ...
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder
... the worst-case uncertainties are divided by 3. The true worst-case uncertainties can be recovered by multiplying all quoted errors by 3. For random uncorrelated errors, the estimated uncertainties can be recovered by multiplying the quoted errors by 3 N where N is the number of observations. ...
... the worst-case uncertainties are divided by 3. The true worst-case uncertainties can be recovered by multiplying all quoted errors by 3. For random uncorrelated errors, the estimated uncertainties can be recovered by multiplying the quoted errors by 3 N where N is the number of observations. ...
Planetary Magnetic Fields
... dipole component (Russell 1991). The north magnetic pole is located in Northern Canada, and is drifting north at an average rate of about 10km per year, as shown in Appendix IV (pg 15). It is not known whether the current drifting of the pole and weakening of the field are related to another phenome ...
... dipole component (Russell 1991). The north magnetic pole is located in Northern Canada, and is drifting north at an average rate of about 10km per year, as shown in Appendix IV (pg 15). It is not known whether the current drifting of the pole and weakening of the field are related to another phenome ...
Shock structure and ion dynamics
... the ion distributions parallel and perpendicular to the interplanetary magnetic field (the mean magnetic field orientation is indicated by arrows) are shown for three different locations: downstream, at the ramp, and upstream of the bow shock. The dark blue shaded areas in the plot of the magnetic f ...
... the ion distributions parallel and perpendicular to the interplanetary magnetic field (the mean magnetic field orientation is indicated by arrows) are shown for three different locations: downstream, at the ramp, and upstream of the bow shock. The dark blue shaded areas in the plot of the magnetic f ...
Heliosphere
The heliosphere is the bubble-like region of space dominated by the Sun, which extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto. Plasma ""blown"" out from the Sun, known as the solar wind, creates and maintains this bubble against the outside pressure of the interstellar medium, the hydrogen and helium gas that permeates the Milky Way Galaxy. The solar wind flows outward from the Sun until encountering the termination shock, where motion slows abruptly. The Voyager spacecraft have actively explored the outer reaches of the heliosphere, passing through the shock and entering the heliosheath, a transitional region which is in turn bounded by the outermost edge of the heliosphere, called the heliopause. The overall shape of the heliosphere is controlled by the interstellar medium, through which it is traveling, as well as the Sun, and does not appear to be perfectly spherical. The limited data available and unexplored nature of these structures have resulted in many theories.On September 12, 2013, NASA announced that Voyager 1 had exited the heliosphere on August 25, 2012, when it measured a sudden increase in plasma density of about forty times. Because the heliopause marks one boundary between the Sun's solar wind and the rest of the galaxy, a spacecraft such as Voyager 1 which has departed the heliosphere can be said to have reached interstellar space.