Sky Maps Teacher`s Guide - Northern Stars Planetarium
... the ocean. What luck! That meant that the bear could not smell him. This was his chance to prove his manhood. He told the dogs to stop and lie down. Taking his father's spear, he slowly crept out onto the ice floe to get close enough to throw the spear and kill the great beast. Finally, when he dare ...
... the ocean. What luck! That meant that the bear could not smell him. This was his chance to prove his manhood. He told the dogs to stop and lie down. Taking his father's spear, he slowly crept out onto the ice floe to get close enough to throw the spear and kill the great beast. Finally, when he dare ...
The Solar System
... The planet is so named probably because it is the brightest of the planets known to the ancients. (With a few exceptions, the surface features on Venus are named for female figures.) Venus has been known since prehistoric times. It is the brightest object in the sky except for the Sun and the Moon. ...
... The planet is so named probably because it is the brightest of the planets known to the ancients. (With a few exceptions, the surface features on Venus are named for female figures.) Venus has been known since prehistoric times. It is the brightest object in the sky except for the Sun and the Moon. ...
planetary temperatures, albedos, and the greenhouse effect
... Albedo (represented by the symbol A) is the fraction of sunlight falling on a surface that is reflected back into space. (The word albedo comes from the Latin word for "white" - albus.) The albedo represents the average reflectivity over the entire visible surface; hence it differs slightly from the ...
... Albedo (represented by the symbol A) is the fraction of sunlight falling on a surface that is reflected back into space. (The word albedo comes from the Latin word for "white" - albus.) The albedo represents the average reflectivity over the entire visible surface; hence it differs slightly from the ...
07_Jovian planets
... Venus is the Roman goddess of love and beauty. The planet is aptly named since it makes a beautiful sight in the sky, with only the Sun and the Moon being brighter. Earth is the only planet whose English name does not derive from Greek/Roman mythology. The name derives from Old English and Germanic. ...
... Venus is the Roman goddess of love and beauty. The planet is aptly named since it makes a beautiful sight in the sky, with only the Sun and the Moon being brighter. Earth is the only planet whose English name does not derive from Greek/Roman mythology. The name derives from Old English and Germanic. ...
Unit 2 Lesson 1
... • SC.8.N.1.5 Analyze the methods used to develop a scientific explanation as seen in different fields of science. • SC.8.N.3.1 Select models useful in relating the results of their own investigations. • SC.8.E.5.1 Recognize that there are enormous distances between objects in space and apply our kno ...
... • SC.8.N.1.5 Analyze the methods used to develop a scientific explanation as seen in different fields of science. • SC.8.N.3.1 Select models useful in relating the results of their own investigations. • SC.8.E.5.1 Recognize that there are enormous distances between objects in space and apply our kno ...
the latest related paper
... "Duke Frederick . . . set fire to the town of Augsburg and killed many of its citizens . . .An eclipse of the Sun occurred on the 4th day before the Nones of August at midday for about an hour, such as is not seen in a thousand years. Eventually the whole sky was dark like night, and stars were seen ...
... "Duke Frederick . . . set fire to the town of Augsburg and killed many of its citizens . . .An eclipse of the Sun occurred on the 4th day before the Nones of August at midday for about an hour, such as is not seen in a thousand years. Eventually the whole sky was dark like night, and stars were seen ...
Birth - Wayne State University Physics and Astronomy
... The star slightly wobbles due to the motion of the unseen companion planet ...
... The star slightly wobbles due to the motion of the unseen companion planet ...
A QUANTITATIVE CRITERION FOR DEFINING PLANETS
... bodies are listed in Table 1 and shown in Figure 2. The proposed metric for classifying planets is attractive because it relies solely on properties that are typically known (i.e., host star mass) or observable from Earth shortly after discovery (i.e., planet mass and semimajor axis or orbital perio ...
... bodies are listed in Table 1 and shown in Figure 2. The proposed metric for classifying planets is attractive because it relies solely on properties that are typically known (i.e., host star mass) or observable from Earth shortly after discovery (i.e., planet mass and semimajor axis or orbital perio ...
meteor shower
... the Sun will display a visible coma (a thin, fuzzy, temporary atmosphere) and sometimes also a tail. • These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet. http://64.107.216.64/cyberspace/Explorers/Solar_System/Comets/ ...
... the Sun will display a visible coma (a thin, fuzzy, temporary atmosphere) and sometimes also a tail. • These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet. http://64.107.216.64/cyberspace/Explorers/Solar_System/Comets/ ...
Neptune Project
... diameter, and the third by mass. Neptune is also the most dense planet. It completes an orbit on average every 164.79 years. The average distance between Neptune and the sun is 4.50 billion km. (about 30.1 AUs) ...
... diameter, and the third by mass. Neptune is also the most dense planet. It completes an orbit on average every 164.79 years. The average distance between Neptune and the sun is 4.50 billion km. (about 30.1 AUs) ...
Quark Presents: Holiday Tour of the Star System Sol
... B. Nebula flattens, forms rotating disk, matter concentrates in center C. Disk cools, forms particles that grow into planetesimals - composition varies with temperature/distance from star ...
... B. Nebula flattens, forms rotating disk, matter concentrates in center C. Disk cools, forms particles that grow into planetesimals - composition varies with temperature/distance from star ...
L8 Condensation
... Grossman & Larimer (1974) computed the full sequence of condensation for a number of elements. The abundance of the different elements were taken to be solar and the total pressure was set to 10-4 atm. In order for the equilibrium condensation model to be correct, the various timescales for the chem ...
... Grossman & Larimer (1974) computed the full sequence of condensation for a number of elements. The abundance of the different elements were taken to be solar and the total pressure was set to 10-4 atm. In order for the equilibrium condensation model to be correct, the various timescales for the chem ...
Jupiter – friend or foe? I: the asteroids
... they examined the effect of the position and mass of a Jovian planet on the rate of ejection of particles placed on eccentric orbits that initially crossed the habitable zone (being the range of distances from a star within which water at the surface of an “Earth” would be stable in the liquid phase ...
... they examined the effect of the position and mass of a Jovian planet on the rate of ejection of particles placed on eccentric orbits that initially crossed the habitable zone (being the range of distances from a star within which water at the surface of an “Earth” would be stable in the liquid phase ...
PARAMOUNT SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE TIME AND SPACE
... 2. Begin by discussing the vastness of the universe. For example, tell students that light travels at the unimaginably fast speed of 300 million meters per second, and yet light takes years to travel to us from the stars and takes thousands or even millions of years to travel the depths of space bet ...
... 2. Begin by discussing the vastness of the universe. For example, tell students that light travels at the unimaginably fast speed of 300 million meters per second, and yet light takes years to travel to us from the stars and takes thousands or even millions of years to travel the depths of space bet ...
PSC100 Summary Chapters 1 to Chapter 9
... that are billions of light years away from us in space and which we will never be able to visit or experiment on first hand. When we study the universe outside of our Earth’s atmosphere, only two types of EM radiation make it through to the surface. Radio waves and visible light supply nearly all of ...
... that are billions of light years away from us in space and which we will never be able to visit or experiment on first hand. When we study the universe outside of our Earth’s atmosphere, only two types of EM radiation make it through to the surface. Radio waves and visible light supply nearly all of ...
Worksheet
... Tides Pre-Test & Post-Test How long does it take the Moon to complete a cycle of phases or a lunar month (new moon to new moon)? A. 15 days B. 29.5 days C. One year D. 365 ¼ days ...
... Tides Pre-Test & Post-Test How long does it take the Moon to complete a cycle of phases or a lunar month (new moon to new moon)? A. 15 days B. 29.5 days C. One year D. 365 ¼ days ...
September 2011 - Newbury Astronomical Society
... The positions of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune at 22:00 BST (21:00 GMT) on 19th September JUPITER rises at rises at 21:21 on 1st September, 20:41 on 15th and 19:00 on 30th. It will be low in the east at the time shown in the chart above but will be observable for the rest of the night in the constella ...
... The positions of Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune at 22:00 BST (21:00 GMT) on 19th September JUPITER rises at rises at 21:21 on 1st September, 20:41 on 15th and 19:00 on 30th. It will be low in the east at the time shown in the chart above but will be observable for the rest of the night in the constella ...
Powerpoint slides - Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences
... exception. Why are binaries useful? • How did these binaries form? • Collisions not a good explanation – low probability, and orbits end up tightly bound (e.g. Earth/Moon) • A more likely explanation is close passage (<~1 Hill sphere), with orbital energy subsequently reduced by interaction with swa ...
... exception. Why are binaries useful? • How did these binaries form? • Collisions not a good explanation – low probability, and orbits end up tightly bound (e.g. Earth/Moon) • A more likely explanation is close passage (<~1 Hill sphere), with orbital energy subsequently reduced by interaction with swa ...
the 2012 transit of venus - Astronomical Society of the Pacific
... Venus) passes between us and the Sun, A transit takes place when an inner planet, during inferior conjunction, passes across any part of the Sun’s face as seen from Earth. Because we think of the planets as orbiting the Sun in a flat plane (called the ecliptic), it might be assumed that we should se ...
... Venus) passes between us and the Sun, A transit takes place when an inner planet, during inferior conjunction, passes across any part of the Sun’s face as seen from Earth. Because we think of the planets as orbiting the Sun in a flat plane (called the ecliptic), it might be assumed that we should se ...
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.