Introduction to Astronomy
... Jupiter is the largest of the planets in the solar system. It is large enough to fit all of the other planets inside of it…twice! It can easily engulf over 1000 Earths. It has an extensive atmosphere tens of thousands of kilometers thick. It is believe to have been the first planet to form in the so ...
... Jupiter is the largest of the planets in the solar system. It is large enough to fit all of the other planets inside of it…twice! It can easily engulf over 1000 Earths. It has an extensive atmosphere tens of thousands of kilometers thick. It is believe to have been the first planet to form in the so ...
Solar System
... From Mercury to Pluto – we’ll learn about all nine planets – work with a partner to help fill in the table – visit a website and do some interactive learning – learn a trick to help you remember the order of the planets – learn about gravity from Miss Frizzle and see how much you would weigh on the ...
... From Mercury to Pluto – we’ll learn about all nine planets – work with a partner to help fill in the table – visit a website and do some interactive learning – learn a trick to help you remember the order of the planets – learn about gravity from Miss Frizzle and see how much you would weigh on the ...
Asteroids
... active (Figure 1.1). Collisions with other bodies may break up the asteroid or create craters on its surface. Asteroid impacts have had dramatic impacts on the shaping of the planets, including Earth. Early impacts caused the planets to grow as they cleared their portions of space. An impact with an ...
... active (Figure 1.1). Collisions with other bodies may break up the asteroid or create craters on its surface. Asteroid impacts have had dramatic impacts on the shaping of the planets, including Earth. Early impacts caused the planets to grow as they cleared their portions of space. An impact with an ...
Lesson 1 – Explain – Page 375 “The Structure of
... Dwarf planets are made of rock and ice and are much smaller than Earth. Asteroids Millions of small, rocky objects called asteroids orbit the Sun in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids range in size from less than a meter to several hundred kilometers in length. ...
... Dwarf planets are made of rock and ice and are much smaller than Earth. Asteroids Millions of small, rocky objects called asteroids orbit the Sun in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids range in size from less than a meter to several hundred kilometers in length. ...
CST Prep- 8th Grade Astronomy
... 1. The theory of how the universe was created is called the ____________________. 2. Which equation states that matter and energy are interchangeable? __________________ 3. All matter in the Universe today came from an original pin prick of limitless __________________. 4. Is the universe contractin ...
... 1. The theory of how the universe was created is called the ____________________. 2. Which equation states that matter and energy are interchangeable? __________________ 3. All matter in the Universe today came from an original pin prick of limitless __________________. 4. Is the universe contractin ...
Science 9 – Unit E - JA Williams High School
... Imagine that two new planets have been discovered. Planet X has been found between the orbits of Venus and Earth. Planet Y has been found between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. Use the following table to help you answer the questions below. ...
... Imagine that two new planets have been discovered. Planet X has been found between the orbits of Venus and Earth. Planet Y has been found between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. Use the following table to help you answer the questions below. ...
Venus - Overview Exploration of Venus Orbit and Rotation
... • ~76% of sunlight reflected by clouds & never reaches surface • Yet surface temperature extremely high! • Surface temperature high due to strong greenhouse effect • No oceans or life to remove CO2 ...
... • ~76% of sunlight reflected by clouds & never reaches surface • Yet surface temperature extremely high! • Surface temperature high due to strong greenhouse effect • No oceans or life to remove CO2 ...
Earth, Moon, and Beyond
... Mother- Mars Just- Jupiter Served- Saturn Us- Uranus Nine- Neptune Pizza’s- Pluto ...
... Mother- Mars Just- Jupiter Served- Saturn Us- Uranus Nine- Neptune Pizza’s- Pluto ...
Review Sheet - University of Mount Union
... 22. What are the steps of the scientific method? What is induction? Deduction? 23. How is an AU defined? How is a light year defined? 24. What are the 3 types of spectra? What does each look like? How are they produced? ...
... 22. What are the steps of the scientific method? What is induction? Deduction? 23. How is an AU defined? How is a light year defined? 24. What are the 3 types of spectra? What does each look like? How are they produced? ...
Motions of the Earth–Moon System The Earth–Moon–Sun System
... • The greater the mass of an object, the greater is its gravitational force. ...
... • The greater the mass of an object, the greater is its gravitational force. ...
Jupiter - Uplift Williams Preparatory
... Jupiter is the largest planet and is the fourth brightest object in the sky, after the Sun, the Moon and Venus. Its volume can fit in more than one thousand Earths and contains more matter than all of the other planets combined. Jupiter's magnetosphere, measured by the Cassini spacecrsft is found to ...
... Jupiter is the largest planet and is the fourth brightest object in the sky, after the Sun, the Moon and Venus. Its volume can fit in more than one thousand Earths and contains more matter than all of the other planets combined. Jupiter's magnetosphere, measured by the Cassini spacecrsft is found to ...
Astronomy - Learn Earth Science
... Use the Luminosity & Temperature of Stars diagram on the ESRTs to identify the characteristics of specific stars in relation to Earth’s sun. ...
... Use the Luminosity & Temperature of Stars diagram on the ESRTs to identify the characteristics of specific stars in relation to Earth’s sun. ...
The Solar System - Solon City Schools
... Temperature -153oC to 20oC. Polar caps of dry ice. Olympus mons is the largest volcano in the solar system. ...
... Temperature -153oC to 20oC. Polar caps of dry ice. Olympus mons is the largest volcano in the solar system. ...
A significant impact - Australian Council for Educational Research
... The claim of a legislative change to the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159265358979323846 to 3 was an April Fool’s joke by Mark Boslough published in the April 1998 edition of NMSR Reports, the newsletter of New Mexicans for Science and Reason. The Indiana Pi Bill – or bill #246 of ...
... The claim of a legislative change to the value of the mathematical constant pi from 3.14159265358979323846 to 3 was an April Fool’s joke by Mark Boslough published in the April 1998 edition of NMSR Reports, the newsletter of New Mexicans for Science and Reason. The Indiana Pi Bill – or bill #246 of ...
Sorting the Solar System - California Academy of Sciences
... Scientific Terms for Students asteroid: A rocky space object that can be a few feet wide to several hundred miles wide. Most asteroids in our solar system orbit in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. ...
... Scientific Terms for Students asteroid: A rocky space object that can be a few feet wide to several hundred miles wide. Most asteroids in our solar system orbit in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. ...
For Space: Our Solar System and Beyond The Solar System Planets
... The inner planets of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are small and mostly solid. The outer planets of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are large and made mostly of gases. Between the inner and outer planets is a belt of rocks called asteroids that orbit the sun. Lying beyond the gas giants, the ...
... The inner planets of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are small and mostly solid. The outer planets of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are large and made mostly of gases. Between the inner and outer planets is a belt of rocks called asteroids that orbit the sun. Lying beyond the gas giants, the ...
PTYS/ASTR 206 – Section 2 – Spring 2007 Activity #2: 1/18/07
... # 2. (3 pts) Consider the table below listing the eccentricity of the orbit for each planet in the solar system. Recall that an orbit with an eccentricity of zero is perfectly circular. (a) Which planets in the solar system would experience the largest change in orbital speed and which would experi ...
... # 2. (3 pts) Consider the table below listing the eccentricity of the orbit for each planet in the solar system. Recall that an orbit with an eccentricity of zero is perfectly circular. (a) Which planets in the solar system would experience the largest change in orbital speed and which would experi ...
SNC 1D Astonomy
... • The time it takes for the Earth to make one revolution around the sun is 365.24 days. • It takes one day for Earth to make one rotation on its axis. • The first clocks were pillars and sticks in the ground and people used the shadows they made to tell the time. ...
... • The time it takes for the Earth to make one revolution around the sun is 365.24 days. • It takes one day for Earth to make one rotation on its axis. • The first clocks were pillars and sticks in the ground and people used the shadows they made to tell the time. ...
How Many Regions Are There In The Solar System?
... In astronomy, the interstellar medium (or ISM) is the matter that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy. This matter includes gas in ionic, atomic, and molecular form, dust, and cosmic rays. It fills interstellar space and blends smoothly into the surrounding intergalactic space. ...
... In astronomy, the interstellar medium (or ISM) is the matter that exists in the space between the star systems in a galaxy. This matter includes gas in ionic, atomic, and molecular form, dust, and cosmic rays. It fills interstellar space and blends smoothly into the surrounding intergalactic space. ...
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.