Dwarf Planets
... Eris is the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system —it has about 27% more mass than Pluto ( Figure 1.3). The object was not discovered until 2003 because it is about three times farther from the Sun than Pluto, and almost 100 times farther from the Sun than Earth is. For a short time Eris wa ...
... Eris is the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system —it has about 27% more mass than Pluto ( Figure 1.3). The object was not discovered until 2003 because it is about three times farther from the Sun than Pluto, and almost 100 times farther from the Sun than Earth is. For a short time Eris wa ...
Planet Data Collection WS Name
... chart on all planets and draws a well thought out conclusion based on the evidence Cooperative Partner: Give your partner a score based on their ...
... chart on all planets and draws a well thought out conclusion based on the evidence Cooperative Partner: Give your partner a score based on their ...
How Did We Get a Solar System?
... • Cold – ices, gases – 10x more particles than inner • May have formed icy center, then captured lighter gases (Jupiter and Saturn first? Took H and He?) Image: LPI http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/timeline/gallery/slide_5.html ...
... • Cold – ices, gases – 10x more particles than inner • May have formed icy center, then captured lighter gases (Jupiter and Saturn first? Took H and He?) Image: LPI http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/timeline/gallery/slide_5.html ...
Tidal Heating of Moons
... Since moons and planets are not points (they’re big balls), this results in tides being raised. For example, the Moon raises tides on the Earth. One side of the Earth is closer to the Moon than the other side. The closer side feels a stronger gravitational force than the center of the Earth, and the ...
... Since moons and planets are not points (they’re big balls), this results in tides being raised. For example, the Moon raises tides on the Earth. One side of the Earth is closer to the Moon than the other side. The closer side feels a stronger gravitational force than the center of the Earth, and the ...
Comparing and Contrasting between Earth and Saturn
... Earth is the places where it can support live. No other creatures have been discovered in other planets (yet). Earth has the right atmosphere, gravity, temperature and others. The atmosphere gave us oxygen. The gravity is not too little that it could make us float or even too much gravity. The tempe ...
... Earth is the places where it can support live. No other creatures have been discovered in other planets (yet). Earth has the right atmosphere, gravity, temperature and others. The atmosphere gave us oxygen. The gravity is not too little that it could make us float or even too much gravity. The tempe ...
The Sky Above: A First Look
... The program begins by showing several students looking through a telescope at the night sky. The program defines the sky as everything above Earth's surface. It introduces the things most obvious to the students: the stars, planets, sun, and moon. The video explains that many of the stars we see are ...
... The program begins by showing several students looking through a telescope at the night sky. The program defines the sky as everything above Earth's surface. It introduces the things most obvious to the students: the stars, planets, sun, and moon. The video explains that many of the stars we see are ...
Outer Space Vocabulary Solar System – The Sun and
... METEOR. If it hits the earth, it’s called a METEORITE! Asteroids – A small rocky object orbiting the sun. Thousands are in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Gravity – A pulling force that acts between all objects in the universe. We are attracted to the earth by gravity. Weight – A measu ...
... METEOR. If it hits the earth, it’s called a METEORITE! Asteroids – A small rocky object orbiting the sun. Thousands are in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Gravity – A pulling force that acts between all objects in the universe. We are attracted to the earth by gravity. Weight – A measu ...
Day_14
... planet with an orbit like Earth’s would: A. move faster when further from the Sun. B. move slower when closer to the Sun. C. experience a dramatic change in orbital speed from month to month. D. experience very little change in orbital speed over the course of the year. E. none of the above. ...
... planet with an orbit like Earth’s would: A. move faster when further from the Sun. B. move slower when closer to the Sun. C. experience a dramatic change in orbital speed from month to month. D. experience very little change in orbital speed over the course of the year. E. none of the above. ...
Venus and Uranus – The Strange Twins
... counterclockwise. Six of the planets rotate counterclockwise. What happened to these two planets? To answer that question, we have to go back to the beginning of the Solar System. While the planets were forming, more than our eight planets formed in the early history of the Solar System. Large bodie ...
... counterclockwise. Six of the planets rotate counterclockwise. What happened to these two planets? To answer that question, we have to go back to the beginning of the Solar System. While the planets were forming, more than our eight planets formed in the early history of the Solar System. Large bodie ...
SC.4.E.5.4,5.1, 5.2, 5.3 Earth & Space
... Answer: The stars appear to move because of Earth’s rotation. Constellations or patterns of stars also change with the seasons because Earth is orbiting around the sun. 3. Why do constellations change with the seasons? Answer: The constellations have been in the same positions for thousands of years ...
... Answer: The stars appear to move because of Earth’s rotation. Constellations or patterns of stars also change with the seasons because Earth is orbiting around the sun. 3. Why do constellations change with the seasons? Answer: The constellations have been in the same positions for thousands of years ...
Magic
... Meridian. A circle of longitude passing from the South point of the horizon, through the zenith to the North point of the horizon. It coincides with geographical longitude - a great circle crossing the equator and passing through the poles. Every point on the Earth's surface has its own meridian or ...
... Meridian. A circle of longitude passing from the South point of the horizon, through the zenith to the North point of the horizon. It coincides with geographical longitude - a great circle crossing the equator and passing through the poles. Every point on the Earth's surface has its own meridian or ...
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... C2/C3: Remember back when we talked about the solar system a few weeks ago. Quick recap on Solar System: Remember the solar system is like the Earth’s neighborhood. Ask the class who remembers the Earth’s neighbors/other planets in the solar system? What is their order with respect to distance from ...
... C2/C3: Remember back when we talked about the solar system a few weeks ago. Quick recap on Solar System: Remember the solar system is like the Earth’s neighborhood. Ask the class who remembers the Earth’s neighbors/other planets in the solar system? What is their order with respect to distance from ...
Jumping on Another Planet!
... (the distance between its surface and its centre). Radius is a key factor for two reasons. First, an object’s gravity acts as if its entire mass were concentrated in its centre. Second, the “force” of an object’s gravity decreases with the square of the distance from the object’s centre. If this dis ...
... (the distance between its surface and its centre). Radius is a key factor for two reasons. First, an object’s gravity acts as if its entire mass were concentrated in its centre. Second, the “force” of an object’s gravity decreases with the square of the distance from the object’s centre. If this dis ...
HW #3 Solutions
... This is a slightly oddly worded question. However, I believe out textbook author is asking us to state the Elongation angle (i.e. Sun-Earth-Moon angle) of Moon when it is New and Gibbous. When the Moon is in the New Moon phase, it is in conjunction with the Sun and has an elongation angle near zero ...
... This is a slightly oddly worded question. However, I believe out textbook author is asking us to state the Elongation angle (i.e. Sun-Earth-Moon angle) of Moon when it is New and Gibbous. When the Moon is in the New Moon phase, it is in conjunction with the Sun and has an elongation angle near zero ...
HW #10 Solutions
... This is a slightly oddly worded question. However, I believe out textbook author is asking us to state the Elongation angle (i.e. Sun-Earth-Moon angle) of Moon when it is New and Gibbous. When the Moon is in the New Moon phase, it is in conjunction with the Sun and has an elongation angle near zero ...
... This is a slightly oddly worded question. However, I believe out textbook author is asking us to state the Elongation angle (i.e. Sun-Earth-Moon angle) of Moon when it is New and Gibbous. When the Moon is in the New Moon phase, it is in conjunction with the Sun and has an elongation angle near zero ...
Here - ScienceA2Z.com
... sun, solar energy begins to heat the ice and vaporize it. The gas flies off the comet, sometimes violently enough to break the nucleus apart, and throws dust up with it. The gases form a cloud around the nucleus called the coma. Some of the gas is stripped of electrons and blown back by the solar wi ...
... sun, solar energy begins to heat the ice and vaporize it. The gas flies off the comet, sometimes violently enough to break the nucleus apart, and throws dust up with it. The gases form a cloud around the nucleus called the coma. Some of the gas is stripped of electrons and blown back by the solar wi ...
Here - ScienceA2Z.com
... sun, solar energy begins to heat the ice and vaporize it. The gas flies off the comet, sometimes violently enough to break the nucleus apart, and throws dust up with it. The gases form a cloud around the nucleus called the coma. Some of the gas is stripped of electrons and blown back by the solar wi ...
... sun, solar energy begins to heat the ice and vaporize it. The gas flies off the comet, sometimes violently enough to break the nucleus apart, and throws dust up with it. The gases form a cloud around the nucleus called the coma. Some of the gas is stripped of electrons and blown back by the solar wi ...
Sweet Merciful Percival Lowell How I Hate Pluto
... A Brief History of the Solar System 2. The Solar Nebula (Kant 1775, Laplace 1796) a) Close to the Protosun (inside the “frostline”), volatiles are vaporized, and only refractory elements are available for planet building by accumulation and then accretion. ...
... A Brief History of the Solar System 2. The Solar Nebula (Kant 1775, Laplace 1796) a) Close to the Protosun (inside the “frostline”), volatiles are vaporized, and only refractory elements are available for planet building by accumulation and then accretion. ...
The Scientific Method
... Supposedly, Adams communicated his work to James Challis, director of the Cambridge Observatory, in mid‐September 1845 but there is some controversy as to how. On 21 October 1845, Adams, returning from a Cornwall vacation, without appointment, twice called on Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy in ...
... Supposedly, Adams communicated his work to James Challis, director of the Cambridge Observatory, in mid‐September 1845 but there is some controversy as to how. On 21 October 1845, Adams, returning from a Cornwall vacation, without appointment, twice called on Astronomer Royal George Biddell Airy in ...
Notes - Doc Murphy
... developed a Sun-centered model, with Earth and other planets revolving around it 3. The heliocentric model includes two motions for Earth: Rotation and Revolution a. Rotation 1. What is The Axis of Rotation? 1. Earth spins on an imaginary axis. this motion is called Rotation spins east to west ...
... developed a Sun-centered model, with Earth and other planets revolving around it 3. The heliocentric model includes two motions for Earth: Rotation and Revolution a. Rotation 1. What is The Axis of Rotation? 1. Earth spins on an imaginary axis. this motion is called Rotation spins east to west ...
EGU2017-10149 - CO Meeting Organizer
... The Neoproterozoic tectonic characteristics of the high grade metamorphic massifs along the Ailao Shan-Red River belt are debated. Controversies are on 1) whether the massifs were parts of the Yangtze block to the northeast or 2) parts of the Indochina block to the southwest and 3) the magmatic rock ...
... The Neoproterozoic tectonic characteristics of the high grade metamorphic massifs along the Ailao Shan-Red River belt are debated. Controversies are on 1) whether the massifs were parts of the Yangtze block to the northeast or 2) parts of the Indochina block to the southwest and 3) the magmatic rock ...
Comets do not orbit forever.
... spherical collection of bodies outside of the Kuiper Belt that are left over from the formation of the Solar System. 3. The trip inward towards the Sun begins with gravitational interactions with the _outer planets_ (in the case of Kuiper Belt objects) or nearby _stars_ (in the case of Oort Cloud ob ...
... spherical collection of bodies outside of the Kuiper Belt that are left over from the formation of the Solar System. 3. The trip inward towards the Sun begins with gravitational interactions with the _outer planets_ (in the case of Kuiper Belt objects) or nearby _stars_ (in the case of Oort Cloud ob ...
Late Heavy Bombardment
The Late Heavy Bombardment (abbreviated LHB and also known as the lunar cataclysm) is a hypothetical event thought to have occurred approximately 4.1 to 3.8 billion years (Ga) ago, corresponding to the Neohadean and Eoarchean eras on Earth. During this interval, a disproportionately large number of asteroids apparently collided with the early terrestrial planets in the inner Solar System, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. The LHB happened after the Earth and other rocky planets had formed and accreted most of their mass, but still quite early in Earth's history.Evidence for the LHB derives from lunar samples brought back by the Apollo astronauts. Isotopic dating of Moon rocks implies that most impact melts occurred in a rather narrow interval of time. Several hypotheses are now offered to explain the apparent spike in the flux of impactors (i.e. asteroids and comets) in the inner Solar System, but no consensus yet exists. The Nice model is popular among planetary scientists; it postulates that the gas giant planets underwent orbital migration and scattered objects in the asteroid and/or Kuiper belts into eccentric orbits, and thereby into the path of the terrestrial planets. Other researchers argue that the lunar sample data do not require a cataclysmic cratering event near 3.9 Ga, and that the apparent clustering of impact melt ages near this time is an artifact of sampling materials retrieved from a single large impact basin. They also note that the rate of impact cratering could be significantly different between the outer and inner zones of the Solar System.