Project Medley Topics
... you choose not to keep the book, your TA will be donating them to a local children's library. It therefore needs to be high quality, both in binding and pages. You must convey accurate scientific information in a clear, engaging, fun way that a child would enjoy and understand. Assignment 16 Create ...
... you choose not to keep the book, your TA will be donating them to a local children's library. It therefore needs to be high quality, both in binding and pages. You must convey accurate scientific information in a clear, engaging, fun way that a child would enjoy and understand. Assignment 16 Create ...
see figure 2 - California Academy of Sciences
... the shadow is shortest. A line drawn between that point and the gnomon will align directly north and south. It is important to remember that sun time and clock time are not the same; our clocks are set to standard times for each time zone, so locally, the sun can be at its highest point many minutes ...
... the shadow is shortest. A line drawn between that point and the gnomon will align directly north and south. It is important to remember that sun time and clock time are not the same; our clocks are set to standard times for each time zone, so locally, the sun can be at its highest point many minutes ...
The Sky This Month Feb 22 to Mar 22 2017
... and 19, Venus passes 9 degrees to the north (right) of much fainter Mercury. At the end of March, Venus will be visible in the east for about 45 minutes before sunrise. Reddish Mars remains in the western early evening sky, moving from Pisces into Aries on March 8. It continues to drop in brightness ...
... and 19, Venus passes 9 degrees to the north (right) of much fainter Mercury. At the end of March, Venus will be visible in the east for about 45 minutes before sunrise. Reddish Mars remains in the western early evening sky, moving from Pisces into Aries on March 8. It continues to drop in brightness ...
Asteroids
... spherical blob of gas that surrounds the nucleus of a comet; it is about a million km across. The coma is comprised of water vapor, carbon dioxide gas, ammonia, dust, and neutral gases that have sublimed from the solid nucleus. The coma and the nucleus form the head of a comet. Ion Tail: A tail of c ...
... spherical blob of gas that surrounds the nucleus of a comet; it is about a million km across. The coma is comprised of water vapor, carbon dioxide gas, ammonia, dust, and neutral gases that have sublimed from the solid nucleus. The coma and the nucleus form the head of a comet. Ion Tail: A tail of c ...
Phobos
... Mercury: pulls out to its greatest western elongation of 27.7o from the Sun (about the maximum ever possible) on the 22nd. This makes for a superb apparition for observers at midsouthern latitudes, but in our location, the +0.1 magnitude planet climbs just 5o high about 30 minutes before sunrise and ...
... Mercury: pulls out to its greatest western elongation of 27.7o from the Sun (about the maximum ever possible) on the 22nd. This makes for a superb apparition for observers at midsouthern latitudes, but in our location, the +0.1 magnitude planet climbs just 5o high about 30 minutes before sunrise and ...
Lecture07-ASTA01 - University of Toronto
... extrasolar planetary systems or their formation, or other unobservable things. But (unfortunately) he was extremely influential after 1.5*103 yrs. His world was geocentric, unchanging and unique. The four elements moved each to their 'natural place' with respect to the center of the world. The exist ...
... extrasolar planetary systems or their formation, or other unobservable things. But (unfortunately) he was extremely influential after 1.5*103 yrs. His world was geocentric, unchanging and unique. The four elements moved each to their 'natural place' with respect to the center of the world. The exist ...
Solar Cycle: Observations
... at the beginning of the solar cycle, and migrate toward the equator as the cycle evolves. So, when we plot the latitude of the sunspots as a function of time, the patterns looks like a series of butterfly… therefore it is referred to as the ...
... at the beginning of the solar cycle, and migrate toward the equator as the cycle evolves. So, when we plot the latitude of the sunspots as a function of time, the patterns looks like a series of butterfly… therefore it is referred to as the ...
July 2014 BRAS Newsletter - The Baton Rouge Astronomical Society
... the constellation Cygnus, monitoring their brightness photometrically every 30 minutes for four years. It was searching for any minute decreases in brightness that might indicate one or more planets transiting (passing in front of) their host star as seen from Earth. (For comparison, if Earth transi ...
... the constellation Cygnus, monitoring their brightness photometrically every 30 minutes for four years. It was searching for any minute decreases in brightness that might indicate one or more planets transiting (passing in front of) their host star as seen from Earth. (For comparison, if Earth transi ...
Motions in the Night Sky and the Celestial Sphere
... (a celestial sphere, a planetarium or planetarium software) and examines the usefulness of these models while identifying the model’s shortcomings. Introduction: A scientific model is one that is based on scientific observations and represents a physical system that accurately reflects at least one ...
... (a celestial sphere, a planetarium or planetarium software) and examines the usefulness of these models while identifying the model’s shortcomings. Introduction: A scientific model is one that is based on scientific observations and represents a physical system that accurately reflects at least one ...
24.3 The Sun - Planet Earth
... of the solar atmosphere, the corona (corona ⫽ crown) is very weak and, as with the chromosphere, is visible only when the brilliant photosphere is covered. This envelope of ionized gases normally extends a million kilometers from the sun and produces a glow about half as bright as the full moon. At ...
... of the solar atmosphere, the corona (corona ⫽ crown) is very weak and, as with the chromosphere, is visible only when the brilliant photosphere is covered. This envelope of ionized gases normally extends a million kilometers from the sun and produces a glow about half as bright as the full moon. At ...
2.4 Statistical properties of radial velocity planets
... – for about 1 % of the stars a close in (<0.1 AU), hot Jupiter with mP sin i > 0.1MJ is detected, – for about 15 % of the stars a giant planet with mP sin i > 0.1MJ out to a separation of 5 AU is present, – RV-surveys can not say much about the frequency of giant planets at large separation > 5 AU, ...
... – for about 1 % of the stars a close in (<0.1 AU), hot Jupiter with mP sin i > 0.1MJ is detected, – for about 15 % of the stars a giant planet with mP sin i > 0.1MJ out to a separation of 5 AU is present, – RV-surveys can not say much about the frequency of giant planets at large separation > 5 AU, ...
Discovering Science through Inquiry: The Solar System
... Background Information for the Teacher Earth is the most unique planet in the solar system for at least two very important reasons. First, it is the only known planet in the universe that supports life. Secondly, it is also the only known planet that has an abundance of water, which is essential for ...
... Background Information for the Teacher Earth is the most unique planet in the solar system for at least two very important reasons. First, it is the only known planet in the universe that supports life. Secondly, it is also the only known planet that has an abundance of water, which is essential for ...
Teachers` Manual - Amundsen High School
... Structure of Atoms (nucleus and orbiting electrons) The Elements (number of protons in nucleus determines kind of element) Atoms store energy by lifting electrons to higher orbits Return of electron to lower orbit releases energy which appears as light (or more generally, electromagnetic radiation) ...
... Structure of Atoms (nucleus and orbiting electrons) The Elements (number of protons in nucleus determines kind of element) Atoms store energy by lifting electrons to higher orbits Return of electron to lower orbit releases energy which appears as light (or more generally, electromagnetic radiation) ...
The Sun - TeacherWeb
... Solar collectors are used to produce heat. They are made of black pipes filled with water. The black pipes absorb radiant energy from the Sun. The radiant energy changes to heat and warms the water in the pipes. The water then flows through pipes into a building. Heat radiates out from the water in ...
... Solar collectors are used to produce heat. They are made of black pipes filled with water. The black pipes absorb radiant energy from the Sun. The radiant energy changes to heat and warms the water in the pipes. The water then flows through pipes into a building. Heat radiates out from the water in ...
doc Brandon`s (Precise Final Rev.)
... Kepler’s Laws- Based on observation, not fundamental theory 1. The orbit of a planet about the sun is an ellipse with the sun at one focus 2. A line joining a planet and the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal intervals of time- meaning that planets travel faster in their elliptical orbits when they ...
... Kepler’s Laws- Based on observation, not fundamental theory 1. The orbit of a planet about the sun is an ellipse with the sun at one focus 2. A line joining a planet and the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal intervals of time- meaning that planets travel faster in their elliptical orbits when they ...
Comets and Asteroids Up-close
... Ceres: Dwarf planet Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the only dwarf planet located in the inner solar system. It was the first member of the asteroid belt to be discovered when Giuseppe Piazzi spotted it in 1801. ...
... Ceres: Dwarf planet Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and the only dwarf planet located in the inner solar system. It was the first member of the asteroid belt to be discovered when Giuseppe Piazzi spotted it in 1801. ...
Could there be life on exoplanets? No room for complacency
... found for comets in the solar system. These characteristics seem incompatible with the conditions necessary for the development of advanced and technological life. There are, however, six systems where this is not necessarily the case (listed in table 1). While they each have a planet with a semimaj ...
... found for comets in the solar system. These characteristics seem incompatible with the conditions necessary for the development of advanced and technological life. There are, however, six systems where this is not necessarily the case (listed in table 1). While they each have a planet with a semimaj ...
new course proposal form
... COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course provides a survey of astronomy as a quantitative observational science. It is designed to provide an introduction to the night sky, astronomical tools and methods, the historical development of our understanding of the universe, and the solar system. AST 2003C and AST ...
... COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course provides a survey of astronomy as a quantitative observational science. It is designed to provide an introduction to the night sky, astronomical tools and methods, the historical development of our understanding of the universe, and the solar system. AST 2003C and AST ...
The surface of Venus is rather smooth in many places, though not
... Full view of Venus Venus is the second planet from the Sun. With a nearly circular orbit, it an orbits the sun every 225 days. Venus is peculiar in that its axis rotation is retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus) and because it is very slow: a Solar day o ...
... Full view of Venus Venus is the second planet from the Sun. With a nearly circular orbit, it an orbits the sun every 225 days. Venus is peculiar in that its axis rotation is retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus) and because it is very slow: a Solar day o ...
The surface of Venus is rather smooth in many places, though not
... Full view of Venus Venus is the second planet from the Sun. With a nearly circular orbit, it an orbits the sun every 225 days. Venus is peculiar in that its axis rotation is retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus) and because it is very slow: a Solar day o ...
... Full view of Venus Venus is the second planet from the Sun. With a nearly circular orbit, it an orbits the sun every 225 days. Venus is peculiar in that its axis rotation is retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus) and because it is very slow: a Solar day o ...
Theme 5: The Rise of the Telescope:
... the four large satellites of Jupiter, showing that at least some celestial bodies orbited objects other than the Earth. ...
... the four large satellites of Jupiter, showing that at least some celestial bodies orbited objects other than the Earth. ...
Orrery
An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar system that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according to the heliocentric model. It may also represent the relative sizes of these bodies; but since accurate scaling is often not practical due to the actual large ratio differences, a subdued approximation may be used instead. Though the Greeks had working planetaria, the first orrery that was a planetarium of the modern era was produced in 1704, and one was presented to Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery — whence came the name. They are typically driven by a clockwork mechanism with a globe representing the Sun at the centre, and with a planet at the end of each of the arms.