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... Components of the Solar System • The Sun – The Sun is a star, a ball of incandescent gas whose output is generated by nuclear reactions in its core – Composed mainly of hydrogen (71%) and helium (27%), it also contains traces of nearly all the other chemical elements – It is the most massive object ...
... Components of the Solar System • The Sun – The Sun is a star, a ball of incandescent gas whose output is generated by nuclear reactions in its core – Composed mainly of hydrogen (71%) and helium (27%), it also contains traces of nearly all the other chemical elements – It is the most massive object ...
Clear Skies - Cowichan Valley Starfinders Society
... accounting have been somewhat low key and reflected the size and nature of the club. However, for the 2007 ISP, all paying participants will become registered members of the CVSF. This will effectively balloon our membership. As we will be reporting to a larger membership, I feel it is important tha ...
... accounting have been somewhat low key and reflected the size and nature of the club. However, for the 2007 ISP, all paying participants will become registered members of the CVSF. This will effectively balloon our membership. As we will be reporting to a larger membership, I feel it is important tha ...
ph709-10
... In contrast, planets orbiting within 0.1 AU of their host star all reside have close to circular orbits. All detected planets with semi-major axis < 0.07 AU have low e. This is similar to binary stars, and is likely due to tidal circularization. Earth's eccentricity is 0.017, while Jupiter's is 0.09 ...
... In contrast, planets orbiting within 0.1 AU of their host star all reside have close to circular orbits. All detected planets with semi-major axis < 0.07 AU have low e. This is similar to binary stars, and is likely due to tidal circularization. Earth's eccentricity is 0.017, while Jupiter's is 0.09 ...
Guide to the Sun Poster PDF
... The sun has been ‘burning’ for more than 4.5 billion years and will continue to do so for several billion more. It is a massive collection of gas, mostly hydrogen and helium. Because it is so massive, it has immense gravity, enough gravitational force to hold all of its hydrogen and helium together ...
... The sun has been ‘burning’ for more than 4.5 billion years and will continue to do so for several billion more. It is a massive collection of gas, mostly hydrogen and helium. Because it is so massive, it has immense gravity, enough gravitational force to hold all of its hydrogen and helium together ...
Direct Detection of Exoplanets
... The illustration below shows the spectrum of the Sun and a few planets as they would appear from several light years away. Notice that the Sun’s light completely “drowns out” the light from the planets. This is the major reason why direct detection (seeing the planet itself) is too difficult for now ...
... The illustration below shows the spectrum of the Sun and a few planets as they would appear from several light years away. Notice that the Sun’s light completely “drowns out” the light from the planets. This is the major reason why direct detection (seeing the planet itself) is too difficult for now ...
Volcanism in our Solar System
... know this because of the cratering present everywhere else on the planets surface. This evidence shows how the volcanoes on the Tharsis bulge had been resurfacing the region and erasing the traces of past impacts in the area. Olympus Mons, the solar system’s tallest mountain, is a shield volcano on ...
... know this because of the cratering present everywhere else on the planets surface. This evidence shows how the volcanoes on the Tharsis bulge had been resurfacing the region and erasing the traces of past impacts in the area. Olympus Mons, the solar system’s tallest mountain, is a shield volcano on ...
Chapter 28 Stars and Their Characteristics
... – Length of the waves determine the characteristics of the electromagnetic radiation. – The types of electromagnetic radiation can be arranged in a continuum called the Electromagnetic Spectrum (longest wavelengths at one end and shortest wavelengths at the other end) ...
... – Length of the waves determine the characteristics of the electromagnetic radiation. – The types of electromagnetic radiation can be arranged in a continuum called the Electromagnetic Spectrum (longest wavelengths at one end and shortest wavelengths at the other end) ...
Mercury & the Moon
... existence of our Moon? •Terrestrial planets don’t have moons…. •Our Moon is VERY large compared to its “partner” ...
... existence of our Moon? •Terrestrial planets don’t have moons…. •Our Moon is VERY large compared to its “partner” ...
10 Question - Solar System Quiz (ETE- 261)
... Use all of the information learned during the solar system prezi to answer the following questions. You will have 30 minutes to complete this quiz. ...
... Use all of the information learned during the solar system prezi to answer the following questions. You will have 30 minutes to complete this quiz. ...
The Effect of Abundance Ratios on Rocky Planet Structure
... power-law dislocation creep (based on Frost and Ashby (1982) and Karato 9)). Normalized stress (r/l, r: deviatoric stress, l: shear modulus) is plotted nst normalized temperature (Tm/T, T: temperature, Tm: melting temperature) strain-rate of 10$5 s$1. The results for metals include those with fcc, b ...
... power-law dislocation creep (based on Frost and Ashby (1982) and Karato 9)). Normalized stress (r/l, r: deviatoric stress, l: shear modulus) is plotted nst normalized temperature (Tm/T, T: temperature, Tm: melting temperature) strain-rate of 10$5 s$1. The results for metals include those with fcc, b ...
Quiz 2 review sheet - Rice Space Institute
... white dwarf is left behind. If material then falls onto it, it can burn the hydrogen quickly as a nova. The expanding envelope of material eventually is called a planetary nebula. 15. Stars a lot heavier than the Sun (starting about 8 solar masses) also go through a giant stage, until the Helium in ...
... white dwarf is left behind. If material then falls onto it, it can burn the hydrogen quickly as a nova. The expanding envelope of material eventually is called a planetary nebula. 15. Stars a lot heavier than the Sun (starting about 8 solar masses) also go through a giant stage, until the Helium in ...
Climate Change
... Use data to see how close each planet is to the same constant. (C) Copyright 2014 - all rights reserved www.cpalms.org ...
... Use data to see how close each planet is to the same constant. (C) Copyright 2014 - all rights reserved www.cpalms.org ...
Search for Planets Lecture Notes
... Luminosity of the Sun • Definition of luminosity (watts/m2) • Sun’s luminosity has been changing: earlier in its evolution, luminosity was only 70% of what it is today (how could temperature be maintained over geological time) • Future for luminosity – Remember life cycle of stars – In another 2-3 ...
... Luminosity of the Sun • Definition of luminosity (watts/m2) • Sun’s luminosity has been changing: earlier in its evolution, luminosity was only 70% of what it is today (how could temperature be maintained over geological time) • Future for luminosity – Remember life cycle of stars – In another 2-3 ...
K-12 Curriculum Information
... The Earth rotates about an imaginary line between the North Pole and the South Pole, the axis. Rotation causes day and night. (Learn this as a fact, but true understanding is difficult at this grade level.) A cycle of day and night takes 24 hours. On Earth at night, stars near the North Star appear ...
... The Earth rotates about an imaginary line between the North Pole and the South Pole, the axis. Rotation causes day and night. (Learn this as a fact, but true understanding is difficult at this grade level.) A cycle of day and night takes 24 hours. On Earth at night, stars near the North Star appear ...
Sun - Astronomy Outreach
... So important was the Sun to people’s lives that monuments were constructed to mark its passage in the sky throughout the year. These acted as calendars, signalling the changing seasons and times to plant and harvest crops, among other things. Some of these “ancient observatories”, such as Stoneheng ...
... So important was the Sun to people’s lives that monuments were constructed to mark its passage in the sky throughout the year. These acted as calendars, signalling the changing seasons and times to plant and harvest crops, among other things. Some of these “ancient observatories”, such as Stoneheng ...
Resources - gmu ttac - George Mason University
... undertake the exercise themselves. Place a small representation of Polaris somewhere high up in the room, and point it out to the students. Tell them that the globe represents Earth, the floor represents the plane of Earth’s flat orbit around the sun, and the lamp elevated in the center of the room ...
... undertake the exercise themselves. Place a small representation of Polaris somewhere high up in the room, and point it out to the students. Tell them that the globe represents Earth, the floor represents the plane of Earth’s flat orbit around the sun, and the lamp elevated in the center of the room ...
File
... clever geometric methods for determining distances from Earth to the Moon and Sun and relating them to the size of Earth [see http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=400]. However, the poor precision of some measurements resulted in calculated distances with low accuracy. In 1619, Johan ...
... clever geometric methods for determining distances from Earth to the Moon and Sun and relating them to the size of Earth [see http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=400]. However, the poor precision of some measurements resulted in calculated distances with low accuracy. In 1619, Johan ...
Sun - International Year of Astronomy 2009
... So important was the Sun to people’s lives that monuments were constructed to mark its passage in the sky throughout the year. These acted as calendars, signalling the changing seasons and times to plant and harvest crops, among other things. Some of these “ancient observatories”, such as Stoneheng ...
... So important was the Sun to people’s lives that monuments were constructed to mark its passage in the sky throughout the year. These acted as calendars, signalling the changing seasons and times to plant and harvest crops, among other things. Some of these “ancient observatories”, such as Stoneheng ...
References and Resources
... Catherine M. Andronik. Enslow, 2002. Deep Space Astronomy Gregory Vogt. Twenty-First Century, 1999. The Grand Tour: A Traveler’s Guide to the Solar System William K. Hartmann, Ron Miller. Workman, ...
... Catherine M. Andronik. Enslow, 2002. Deep Space Astronomy Gregory Vogt. Twenty-First Century, 1999. The Grand Tour: A Traveler’s Guide to the Solar System William K. Hartmann, Ron Miller. Workman, ...
Europalife - Denise Jacobs
... find, in addition to some rock and metal, water ice, dry ice, and frozen ammonia and methane. Despite their frozen state today, at the time, if water was in liquid form then, most, if not all of the chemicals listed above were also in liquid or vapor form. Plus, with the exposure of these vapors and ...
... find, in addition to some rock and metal, water ice, dry ice, and frozen ammonia and methane. Despite their frozen state today, at the time, if water was in liquid form then, most, if not all of the chemicals listed above were also in liquid or vapor form. Plus, with the exposure of these vapors and ...
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.