Our Solar System
... Besides the planets, the solar system includes satellites of the planets, asteroids, comets, and trans-Neptunian ...
... Besides the planets, the solar system includes satellites of the planets, asteroids, comets, and trans-Neptunian ...
Final Study Guide copy
... Meteor vs. Meteorite vs. Meteoroid – Meteoroids are rocks blying through space. They become meteors when they enter our atmosphere and burn up. If part of them survives to hit the ground or the water, they are meteorites. Meteor showers – When Earth passes through the debris bield of something like ...
... Meteor vs. Meteorite vs. Meteoroid – Meteoroids are rocks blying through space. They become meteors when they enter our atmosphere and burn up. If part of them survives to hit the ground or the water, they are meteorites. Meteor showers – When Earth passes through the debris bield of something like ...
The Big Bang Demonstration
... our sun. The sun is a star. It is the biggest thing found in our solar system. All the light and warmth on the planets come from the sun. The Sun get most gets its energy from nuclear reactions, which release vast quantities of energy; and these same nuclear reactions created smaller clumps of matte ...
... our sun. The sun is a star. It is the biggest thing found in our solar system. All the light and warmth on the planets come from the sun. The Sun get most gets its energy from nuclear reactions, which release vast quantities of energy; and these same nuclear reactions created smaller clumps of matte ...
Title: "Pluto - New Horizons Mission to the Edge of the Solar System"
... worlds combined - yet, no spacecraft has been sent to a planet in this class. NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, its moon Charon and the Kuiper Belt is provisionally planned for launch in January 2006. After using a flyby of Jupiter in 2007 to get a gravitational kick, the spacecraft will reach P ...
... worlds combined - yet, no spacecraft has been sent to a planet in this class. NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto, its moon Charon and the Kuiper Belt is provisionally planned for launch in January 2006. After using a flyby of Jupiter in 2007 to get a gravitational kick, the spacecraft will reach P ...
Solar System 3-D - Insight Cruises
... oven and is covered by strange volcanic, tectonic, and impact landforms! ...
... oven and is covered by strange volcanic, tectonic, and impact landforms! ...
Astro 205 Ch. 2
... • The small circle is called an epicycle. • This model became to complex to be plausible. • “Occam’s Razor” is a principle which states that simplicity is an important part of scienBfic theory. ...
... • The small circle is called an epicycle. • This model became to complex to be plausible. • “Occam’s Razor” is a principle which states that simplicity is an important part of scienBfic theory. ...
Introduction to Our Solar System
... What happened to Pluto? Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. It was named after the Roman God of the underworld. At half the size of Mercury and two thirds the size of our own moon, it was considered the smallest planet of our solar system. However, in 2006, the International Astronomica ...
... What happened to Pluto? Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. It was named after the Roman God of the underworld. At half the size of Mercury and two thirds the size of our own moon, it was considered the smallest planet of our solar system. However, in 2006, the International Astronomica ...
Ch. 26 The Sun and the Solar System
... Beyond the sphere was a source of intense light. The belief was then that the sphere rotated with certain patterns coming around at the same time each year • Retrograde Motion: The apparent “backwards” movement of a planet due to the Earth catching and passing that planet in its orbit around the Sun ...
... Beyond the sphere was a source of intense light. The belief was then that the sphere rotated with certain patterns coming around at the same time each year • Retrograde Motion: The apparent “backwards” movement of a planet due to the Earth catching and passing that planet in its orbit around the Sun ...
PowerPoint
... Orbit period: the time required for the planet to make one revolution around the Sun. Average distance of a planet to the sun (r) measured in AU. Orbit period (p) measured in Earth years. Law of Periods: r³ = p² (r x r x r = p x p) Which means: the cube of the average distance of a planet from the S ...
... Orbit period: the time required for the planet to make one revolution around the Sun. Average distance of a planet to the sun (r) measured in AU. Orbit period (p) measured in Earth years. Law of Periods: r³ = p² (r x r x r = p x p) Which means: the cube of the average distance of a planet from the S ...
Teacher`s Guide for Solar System, a Kingfisher Young Knowledge
... of the size of the solar system and interplanetary distances with this activity. If you have a space the size of a football field, you can make a model that is 330 feet from the Sun to Saturn. From end to end a football field is 360 feet (300 feet from goal line to goal line plus the end zones). Exp ...
... of the size of the solar system and interplanetary distances with this activity. If you have a space the size of a football field, you can make a model that is 330 feet from the Sun to Saturn. From end to end a football field is 360 feet (300 feet from goal line to goal line plus the end zones). Exp ...
Exam #1 Review
... An object in orbit around the Earth stays in orbit because • A. the spin of the Earth propels it ...
... An object in orbit around the Earth stays in orbit because • A. the spin of the Earth propels it ...
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... 1. It started in 2003. They sent Rover vehicles to explore the surface of Mars. 2. No, there are plants and animals only on Earth. Mars is full of dust and rock. 3. Yes, there is some frozen water on Mars. 4. Did they discover evidence of water? 5. Did they observe any animals or plants? 6. Emre, wh ...
... 1. It started in 2003. They sent Rover vehicles to explore the surface of Mars. 2. No, there are plants and animals only on Earth. Mars is full of dust and rock. 3. Yes, there is some frozen water on Mars. 4. Did they discover evidence of water? 5. Did they observe any animals or plants? 6. Emre, wh ...
The Heliocentric Model of the Solar System
... Hypothesis: The Sun is the center of the solar system. Only Moon orbits around Earth; Planets orbit around Sun. • Aristarchus of Samos was the first to propose it in ancient Greece (~300 BC) - but Aristotle’s model was the favorite one • He proposed that the Sun is the ‘center of life’ • Also th ...
... Hypothesis: The Sun is the center of the solar system. Only Moon orbits around Earth; Planets orbit around Sun. • Aristarchus of Samos was the first to propose it in ancient Greece (~300 BC) - but Aristotle’s model was the favorite one • He proposed that the Sun is the ‘center of life’ • Also th ...
Seasons
... Summer starts on the summer solstice ~ June 21 Fall starts on the autumnal equinox ~ September 22 Winter starts on the winter solstice ~ December 21 Solstice is when the Sun rises or sets as far North or South of the equator as it can (days are longest or shortest) Equinox is when the Sun crosses th ...
... Summer starts on the summer solstice ~ June 21 Fall starts on the autumnal equinox ~ September 22 Winter starts on the winter solstice ~ December 21 Solstice is when the Sun rises or sets as far North or South of the equator as it can (days are longest or shortest) Equinox is when the Sun crosses th ...
Scale Model of the Solar System
... Purpose: Scientists us astronomical units (AU) when measuring distances in the solar system, simply because distances measured in kilometers can get very large. Look at the following table to get an idea of the vast size of our solar system. As you can see, one astronomical unit is interpreted as th ...
... Purpose: Scientists us astronomical units (AU) when measuring distances in the solar system, simply because distances measured in kilometers can get very large. Look at the following table to get an idea of the vast size of our solar system. As you can see, one astronomical unit is interpreted as th ...
Space Exam Review
... another object (orbit); this movement is not in a perfect circle, but in an elliptical shape Since the Sun in not directly in the centre of the ellipse, the Earth is actually closer to the Sun in December than it is in June!!! ...
... another object (orbit); this movement is not in a perfect circle, but in an elliptical shape Since the Sun in not directly in the centre of the ellipse, the Earth is actually closer to the Sun in December than it is in June!!! ...
The Solar System
... planetary orbit stating the planets rotated in an elliptical orbit. Galileo used the newly invented telescope to study the planets and say there were many planets orbiting the sun. Planetary system- a system of planets revolving around the sun (a star). ...
... planetary orbit stating the planets rotated in an elliptical orbit. Galileo used the newly invented telescope to study the planets and say there were many planets orbiting the sun. Planetary system- a system of planets revolving around the sun (a star). ...
The Solar System
... round and orbit the sun, not be a moon, and not able to clear the path of its orbit. Pluto is very different from the outer planets. It is much smaller and it is more like a terrestrial planet than a gas giant. Pluto has three moons, Charon, Nix and Hydra. ...
... round and orbit the sun, not be a moon, and not able to clear the path of its orbit. Pluto is very different from the outer planets. It is much smaller and it is more like a terrestrial planet than a gas giant. Pluto has three moons, Charon, Nix and Hydra. ...
The Solar System - Belle Vernon Area School District
... Satellites to Venus • 1970’s Russia/Soviet Union sent the Venera probes that photographed and mapped the surface • In 1995 the United States probe Magellan also mapped the surface in ...
... Satellites to Venus • 1970’s Russia/Soviet Union sent the Venera probes that photographed and mapped the surface • In 1995 the United States probe Magellan also mapped the surface in ...
The planets - Neptune - Primary Leap Worksheets.
... Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun, it is also the furthest. The planet was discovered on September 23, 1846. It takes 165 years to orbit the Sun. Neptune can be not be seen with the naked eye. The planet is slightly bigger than its near twin Uranus. Neptune is surrounded by ring arcs and has ...
... Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun, it is also the furthest. The planet was discovered on September 23, 1846. It takes 165 years to orbit the Sun. Neptune can be not be seen with the naked eye. The planet is slightly bigger than its near twin Uranus. Neptune is surrounded by ring arcs and has ...
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.