Planetary Chart
... - atmospheres formed from gases that poured out of volcanoes (atmosphere can make a surface warmer and more uniform in temperature) - four types of processes that shape planets’ surfaces (tectonics, volcanism, weathering and erosion, impact cratering) - asteroids are also located in the inner solar ...
... - atmospheres formed from gases that poured out of volcanoes (atmosphere can make a surface warmer and more uniform in temperature) - four types of processes that shape planets’ surfaces (tectonics, volcanism, weathering and erosion, impact cratering) - asteroids are also located in the inner solar ...
Space Explorations - Holy Cross Collegiate
... unmanned satellites or remote-controlled ‘landers’ that put equipment on or close to planets where no human has gone before. • Probes have done remote sensing on Mercury and Jupiter, taken soil samples on Mars, landed on Venus, and studied Saturn’s rings up close. • The most recent probes to explore ...
... unmanned satellites or remote-controlled ‘landers’ that put equipment on or close to planets where no human has gone before. • Probes have done remote sensing on Mercury and Jupiter, taken soil samples on Mars, landed on Venus, and studied Saturn’s rings up close. • The most recent probes to explore ...
The Solar System
... everything going around it. We now know that this is not correct. The idea that fits scientific observations and allows us to predict the movement of the planets is called the heliocentric model. This just means that the Sun is at the centre of the solar system, and the Earth and other planets go ar ...
... everything going around it. We now know that this is not correct. The idea that fits scientific observations and allows us to predict the movement of the planets is called the heliocentric model. This just means that the Sun is at the centre of the solar system, and the Earth and other planets go ar ...
PS Astronomy Notes part 5 (1/20, 2 pages, PDF)
... NASA spacecraft currently traversing Mars looking for signs of water and/or life. The surface of Mars is also similar to Earth, complete with dried river beds, canyons, plains and mountains. The largest and tallest mountain in the solar system, ______________ ________ (nearly 85,000 feet tall), is f ...
... NASA spacecraft currently traversing Mars looking for signs of water and/or life. The surface of Mars is also similar to Earth, complete with dried river beds, canyons, plains and mountains. The largest and tallest mountain in the solar system, ______________ ________ (nearly 85,000 feet tall), is f ...
Meteors and Meteorites
... A meteor produced by a particle from a comet may last less than a second. Bits of rock or metal from asteroids may produce brighter, longer-lasting meteors. Rarely, a very bright meteor, called a fireball, lights up the sky for several seconds. An object with greater mass, perhaps 10 grams or more, ...
... A meteor produced by a particle from a comet may last less than a second. Bits of rock or metal from asteroids may produce brighter, longer-lasting meteors. Rarely, a very bright meteor, called a fireball, lights up the sky for several seconds. An object with greater mass, perhaps 10 grams or more, ...
Week 7 Revision Lecture
... • The system tries to achieve the lowest energy = highest stability. • As everything orbits, some resonances are stable (Pluto-Neptune; Io, Europa and Ganymede). Others are not stable (cleared gaps in Saturn’s rings). ...
... • The system tries to achieve the lowest energy = highest stability. • As everything orbits, some resonances are stable (Pluto-Neptune; Io, Europa and Ganymede). Others are not stable (cleared gaps in Saturn’s rings). ...
Chapter 25.4: The Outer Solar System CPC 1. List the names of the
... A moon that has a thick smog atmosphere of nitrogen gas. A frozen moon of Jupiter that may have a salt water ocean and life under its surface The most volcanically active moon in the solar system. ...
... A moon that has a thick smog atmosphere of nitrogen gas. A frozen moon of Jupiter that may have a salt water ocean and life under its surface The most volcanically active moon in the solar system. ...
Saint Mary`s College ASTRONOMY EXAM -
... 29. Which planets have the greatest and least mean density, size , mass, and distance from the Sun, respectively? 30. Once the basic planet building process was complete in the solar system, what happened to left-over planetesimals? Hint: What do planetary surfaces look like and what do they have in ...
... 29. Which planets have the greatest and least mean density, size , mass, and distance from the Sun, respectively? 30. Once the basic planet building process was complete in the solar system, what happened to left-over planetesimals? Hint: What do planetary surfaces look like and what do they have in ...
Spicy Solar System Goal Model the solar system with edible
... This model aims at representing the solar system to scale (sizes of the objects) based on edible ingredients that can easily be found in most environments. If these ingredients are hard to find, they can of course be replaced by another of the same size. The Solar System Sun Mercury Venus Earth - Mo ...
... This model aims at representing the solar system to scale (sizes of the objects) based on edible ingredients that can easily be found in most environments. If these ingredients are hard to find, they can of course be replaced by another of the same size. The Solar System Sun Mercury Venus Earth - Mo ...
Inner Planets
... heavily cratered surface Venus second closest to Sun thick atmosphere traps solar energy = greenhouse effect hottest planet – about 470 C Earth’s “sister planet” – similar size slowest rotation Earth 3rd planet from Sun protective atmosphere allows life to flourish water exists as ...
... heavily cratered surface Venus second closest to Sun thick atmosphere traps solar energy = greenhouse effect hottest planet – about 470 C Earth’s “sister planet” – similar size slowest rotation Earth 3rd planet from Sun protective atmosphere allows life to flourish water exists as ...
Lecture18
... •C) Asteroids orbit the Sun continuously, whereas all comets approach the Sun’s vicinity only once before leaving the Solar System •D) Come orbits are highly elliptical and at random inclinations to the ecliptic plane, whereas asteroids have circular orbits in the ecliptic plane ...
... •C) Asteroids orbit the Sun continuously, whereas all comets approach the Sun’s vicinity only once before leaving the Solar System •D) Come orbits are highly elliptical and at random inclinations to the ecliptic plane, whereas asteroids have circular orbits in the ecliptic plane ...
Ch. 23: “Touring Our Solar System”
... The current balance of opinion favors the latter, due to the existence of stable orbits between Mars and Jupiter. An asteroid is a small, rocky body whose diameter can range from a few hundred kilometers to less than a kilometer. Most lie between Mars and Jupiter and have orbital periods of 3-6 year ...
... The current balance of opinion favors the latter, due to the existence of stable orbits between Mars and Jupiter. An asteroid is a small, rocky body whose diameter can range from a few hundred kilometers to less than a kilometer. Most lie between Mars and Jupiter and have orbital periods of 3-6 year ...
Lecture18 - UCSB Physics
... • C) Asteroids orbit the Sun continuously, whereas all comets approach the Sun’s vicinity only once before leaving the Solar System • D) Come orbits are highly elliptical and at random inclinations to the ecliptic plane, whereas asteroids have circular orbits in the ecliptic plane ...
... • C) Asteroids orbit the Sun continuously, whereas all comets approach the Sun’s vicinity only once before leaving the Solar System • D) Come orbits are highly elliptical and at random inclinations to the ecliptic plane, whereas asteroids have circular orbits in the ecliptic plane ...
CHAP
... There is a theory that large amounts of water may have flowed on Mars’ surface in the long distance past due to evidence of ___________ and ___________. ...
... There is a theory that large amounts of water may have flowed on Mars’ surface in the long distance past due to evidence of ___________ and ___________. ...
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... 24. True or False (circle) Time of rotation is how long it takes something to get all the way around the sun one time. 25. How is it possible for Venus to have a negative period of rotation? ___________________________________________________________________ 26. Which inner planet tilts the least on ...
... 24. True or False (circle) Time of rotation is how long it takes something to get all the way around the sun one time. 25. How is it possible for Venus to have a negative period of rotation? ___________________________________________________________________ 26. Which inner planet tilts the least on ...
Document
... Roughly 4.5 billion years old Will last another 4.5 billion years A very typical star ...
... Roughly 4.5 billion years old Will last another 4.5 billion years A very typical star ...
24.Comets
... • Breakup of asteroid may have caused multiple impacts • Manson impact structure in central Iowa is also 65 million years old, but only 35 km in diameter – too small to be main impact site ...
... • Breakup of asteroid may have caused multiple impacts • Manson impact structure in central Iowa is also 65 million years old, but only 35 km in diameter – too small to be main impact site ...
Solar system intro and formation
... Outer parts cooler: ices form (but still much gas), also ice "mantles" on dust grains => much more solid material for accretion => larger planetesimals => more gravity => even more material. Jovian solid cores ~ 10-15 MEarth . Strong gravity => swept up and retained large gas envelopes. ...
... Outer parts cooler: ices form (but still much gas), also ice "mantles" on dust grains => much more solid material for accretion => larger planetesimals => more gravity => even more material. Jovian solid cores ~ 10-15 MEarth . Strong gravity => swept up and retained large gas envelopes. ...
introduction to astronomy phys 271
... • About 240,000 miles (similar to the Diameter of Saturn’s Rings) ...
... • About 240,000 miles (similar to the Diameter of Saturn’s Rings) ...
Chapter 9 Solar System Test Multiple Choice Identify the choice that
... d. liquid water. ____ 13. Copernicus explained that a. the sun is at the center of the system of planets. b. the sun and the planets revolve around Earth. c. the geocentric system is correct. d. there are only six planets. ____ 14. Venus and Earth are much alike in terms of a. their size and density ...
... d. liquid water. ____ 13. Copernicus explained that a. the sun is at the center of the system of planets. b. the sun and the planets revolve around Earth. c. the geocentric system is correct. d. there are only six planets. ____ 14. Venus and Earth are much alike in terms of a. their size and density ...
5th Grade Solar System - Mrs. Kellogg`s 5th Grade Class
... Center of our solar system – all planets orbit around the sun Nuclear Fusion- protons combine to form a helium nucleus-energy released *Mostly composed of (made up of) Hydrogen and Helium ...
... Center of our solar system – all planets orbit around the sun Nuclear Fusion- protons combine to form a helium nucleus-energy released *Mostly composed of (made up of) Hydrogen and Helium ...
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.