Chapter 12 (in pdf)
... Types of Asteroids (based on composition) • C-type: large fraction of carbon - dark (low reflectivity), 75% of all asteroids - remnants of solar system formation? • S-type: large fraction of silicates - standard rocky material, 15% of asteroids • M-type: large fraction of iron, nickel - standard ...
... Types of Asteroids (based on composition) • C-type: large fraction of carbon - dark (low reflectivity), 75% of all asteroids - remnants of solar system formation? • S-type: large fraction of silicates - standard rocky material, 15% of asteroids • M-type: large fraction of iron, nickel - standard ...
- Esamskriti
... to one who earns wealth through righteous means [this appears to be the most flaunted moral law today and that could also explain the sorry state of the modern world] and to one whose conduct is regulated by fairness and principles of natural justice, favorable results always accrue.’ Therefore it i ...
... to one who earns wealth through righteous means [this appears to be the most flaunted moral law today and that could also explain the sorry state of the modern world] and to one whose conduct is regulated by fairness and principles of natural justice, favorable results always accrue.’ Therefore it i ...
Kuiper belt objects - Rosemary`s ePortfolio
... It was named by an 11-year-old girl who suggested the name to her grandfather About 2/3 of the diameter of Earth’s moon 248-year-long elliptical orbit Can travel as far as 49.3 AUs from the Sun A thin atmosphere is created around it when it gets close to the sun in its orbit because its surface ices ...
... It was named by an 11-year-old girl who suggested the name to her grandfather About 2/3 of the diameter of Earth’s moon 248-year-long elliptical orbit Can travel as far as 49.3 AUs from the Sun A thin atmosphere is created around it when it gets close to the sun in its orbit because its surface ices ...
Kepler`s Laws
... where r is the average radius for the section of orbit.. Determine 1 by finding the difference in degrees between December 20 and December 30. Measure the radius at a point midway between the two dates. Calculate the area in AUs for this ten-day period. 3. Select two additional ten-day periods of ti ...
... where r is the average radius for the section of orbit.. Determine 1 by finding the difference in degrees between December 20 and December 30. Measure the radius at a point midway between the two dates. Calculate the area in AUs for this ten-day period. 3. Select two additional ten-day periods of ti ...
May 2016 - Pomona Valley Amateur Astronomers
... crazed by the eruptions of over 400 sulfur volcanoes. This gives it an yellow-orange scarred look that has been compared to pizza or a rotten citrus fruit. Io is larger than dwarf planets like Pluto, Ceres, and Eris. Pizza dwarf planet. Io is unique in many other ways. It has the shortest name of an ...
... crazed by the eruptions of over 400 sulfur volcanoes. This gives it an yellow-orange scarred look that has been compared to pizza or a rotten citrus fruit. Io is larger than dwarf planets like Pluto, Ceres, and Eris. Pizza dwarf planet. Io is unique in many other ways. It has the shortest name of an ...
Terrestrial Planets
... Moonlike: Surface craters, no atmosphere No evidence of tectonic activity Scarps (cliffs) in middle of ...
... Moonlike: Surface craters, no atmosphere No evidence of tectonic activity Scarps (cliffs) in middle of ...
Earth, Moon and Sun
... - the temperatures on the moon are either extremely hot or extremely cold - it takes the moon about 30 days to make one complete revolution around the Earth - the moon is a rocky satellite of the Earth (a satellite is on object that moves in orbit around another larger body) HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO ...
... - the temperatures on the moon are either extremely hot or extremely cold - it takes the moon about 30 days to make one complete revolution around the Earth - the moon is a rocky satellite of the Earth (a satellite is on object that moves in orbit around another larger body) HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO ...
07_Testbank
... 5) Which of the following statements about the asteroid belt is not true? A) The combined mass of all the asteroids is roughly the same as the mass of Earth. B) It is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. C) Asteroids in the asteroid belt orbit the Sun in the same direction that planets o ...
... 5) Which of the following statements about the asteroid belt is not true? A) The combined mass of all the asteroids is roughly the same as the mass of Earth. B) It is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. C) Asteroids in the asteroid belt orbit the Sun in the same direction that planets o ...
Transits
... • Primary transit is when the planet passes in front of the star • The planet appears larger or smaller at different wavelengths depending on how strongly the atmosphere absorbs • Hence, the transit appears deeper at wavelengths that are strongly absorbed, allowing one to form a crude spectrum ...
... • Primary transit is when the planet passes in front of the star • The planet appears larger or smaller at different wavelengths depending on how strongly the atmosphere absorbs • Hence, the transit appears deeper at wavelengths that are strongly absorbed, allowing one to form a crude spectrum ...
Ch 12 slides - UNLV Physics
... Other Kuiper Belt Objects •! Most have been discovered very recently so little is known about them. •! NASA’s New Horizons mission will study Pluto and a few other Kuiper Belt object in a planned flyby. ...
... Other Kuiper Belt Objects •! Most have been discovered very recently so little is known about them. •! NASA’s New Horizons mission will study Pluto and a few other Kuiper Belt object in a planned flyby. ...
Days and Years (Sessions I and II) Days and
... planets and inner planets move around the Sun but at different distances? (The outer planets have a much farther distance to travel than the inner planets.) Would you call the marching band model a good one to use to represent what happens in our Solar System as planets revolve around the Sun? Why? ...
... planets and inner planets move around the Sun but at different distances? (The outer planets have a much farther distance to travel than the inner planets.) Would you call the marching band model a good one to use to represent what happens in our Solar System as planets revolve around the Sun? Why? ...
A Storm of Asteroids - Lunar and Planetary Institute
... Moon rocks formed by the impacts record the age of craters and basins. Interestingly, the ages of rocks collected by astronauts appear to have formed at the same time, 3.8 to 4.0 billion years ago. This suggests there may have been a storm of impacting asteroids half a billion years after the format ...
... Moon rocks formed by the impacts record the age of craters and basins. Interestingly, the ages of rocks collected by astronauts appear to have formed at the same time, 3.8 to 4.0 billion years ago. This suggests there may have been a storm of impacting asteroids half a billion years after the format ...
accel solar system computer
... 10. Notice its temperature difference. Based on what you saw about Mercury and Venus, what does this suggest about its atmosphere?(thick or thin?) 11. Given the thickness of its atmosphere, would it have a lot of protection from impacts? Click on Size comparison. Then click on each planet to see a s ...
... 10. Notice its temperature difference. Based on what you saw about Mercury and Venus, what does this suggest about its atmosphere?(thick or thin?) 11. Given the thickness of its atmosphere, would it have a lot of protection from impacts? Click on Size comparison. Then click on each planet to see a s ...
The Solar System
... Autumn, sending dry winds over California making it our fire season. • Jupiter’s storms usually last months or maybe a year or so, but the Great Red Spot has been on Jupiter since we first put a telescope on it to see; over 400 years now. ...
... Autumn, sending dry winds over California making it our fire season. • Jupiter’s storms usually last months or maybe a year or so, but the Great Red Spot has been on Jupiter since we first put a telescope on it to see; over 400 years now. ...
Astronomy that falls from the sky
... 2. Our solar system includes all the planets, moons, asteroids, meteoroids, comets, dust, ice, and gas orbiting the Sun. 3. What are referred to as the “inner planets” of our solar system (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) have solid rocky surfaces, so if we could land on them, we could stand on them. ...
... 2. Our solar system includes all the planets, moons, asteroids, meteoroids, comets, dust, ice, and gas orbiting the Sun. 3. What are referred to as the “inner planets” of our solar system (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) have solid rocky surfaces, so if we could land on them, we could stand on them. ...
Lecture 3a
... besides Earth could be at the center of motion) • There were many more stars • Venus had definite phases and was clearly orbiting the • Observed Saturn’s rings, but didn’t understand what they were • Observed sunspots on the sun, that the sun revolved on its own axis – wasn’t “perfect” and chang ...
... besides Earth could be at the center of motion) • There were many more stars • Venus had definite phases and was clearly orbiting the • Observed Saturn’s rings, but didn’t understand what they were • Observed sunspots on the sun, that the sun revolved on its own axis – wasn’t “perfect” and chang ...
Uranus and Neptune
... • Thick, slushy mantle of water, ammonia, and methane ices • Rocky cores about the size of Earth • Both planets lack the deep metallic hydrogen mantles found on Jupiter and Saturn because of their smaller size (pressure doesn’t get large enough) ...
... • Thick, slushy mantle of water, ammonia, and methane ices • Rocky cores about the size of Earth • Both planets lack the deep metallic hydrogen mantles found on Jupiter and Saturn because of their smaller size (pressure doesn’t get large enough) ...
Planets in astrology
Planets in astrology have a meaning different from the modern astronomical understanding of what a planet is. Before the age of telescopes, the night sky was thought to consist of two very similar components: fixed stars, which remained motionless in relation to each other, and ""wandering stars"" (Ancient Greek: ἀστέρες πλανῆται asteres planetai), which moved relative to the fixed stars over the course of the year.To the Greeks and the other earliest astronomers, this group comprised the five planets visible to the naked eye, and excluded the Earth. Although strictly the term ""planet"" applied only to those five objects, the term was latterly broadened, particularly in the Middle Ages, to include the Sun and the Moon (sometimes referred to as ""Lights""), making a total of seven planets. Astrologers retain this definition today.To ancient astrologers, the planets represented the will of the gods and their direct influence upon human affairs. To modern astrologers the planets represent basic drives or urges in the unconscious, or energy flow regulators representing dimensions of experience. They express themselves with different qualities in the twelve signs of the zodiac and in the twelve houses. The planets are also related to each other in the form of aspects.Modern astrologers differ on the source of the planets' influence. Hone writes that the planets exert it directly through gravitation or another, unknown influence. Others hold that the planets have no direct influence in themselves, but are mirrors of basic organizing principles in the universe. In other words, the basic patterns of the universe repeat themselves everywhere, in fractal-like fashion, and ""as above so below"". Therefore, the patterns that the planets make in the sky reflect the ebb and flow of basic human impulses. The planets are also associated, especially in the Chinese tradition, with the basic forces of nature.Listed below are the specific meanings and domains associated with the astrological planets since ancient times, with the main focus on the Western astrological tradition. The planets in Hindu astrology are known as the Navagraha or ""nine realms"". In Chinese astrology, the planets are associated with the life forces of yin and yang and the five elements, which play an important role in the Chinese form of geomancy known as Feng Shui.