Astro110-01 Lecture 7 The Copernican Revolution
... • He set Kepler the task of understanding the orbit of the planet Mars, which was particularly troublesome. It is believed that part of the motivation for giving the Mars problem to Kepler was that it was difficult, and Brahe hoped it would occupy Kepler while Brahe worked on his theory of the Solar ...
... • He set Kepler the task of understanding the orbit of the planet Mars, which was particularly troublesome. It is believed that part of the motivation for giving the Mars problem to Kepler was that it was difficult, and Brahe hoped it would occupy Kepler while Brahe worked on his theory of the Solar ...
Planets orbiting stars more massive than the Sun
... surveys for planets of these types of stars are not efficient (Desort 2009a; Desort 2009b; Guenther et al. 2009; Galland et al. 2006; Galland et al. 2010; Borgniet et al. 2014). Transit surveys are more suitable, because they do not suffer from these difficulties. The only challenges of transit surv ...
... surveys for planets of these types of stars are not efficient (Desort 2009a; Desort 2009b; Guenther et al. 2009; Galland et al. 2006; Galland et al. 2010; Borgniet et al. 2014). Transit surveys are more suitable, because they do not suffer from these difficulties. The only challenges of transit surv ...
Chronological Constraints on Planetesimal Accretion
... closure events clearly marking either its onset or its termination for any given planetesimal associated with a specific meteorite type. Processes directly associated with early accretion, e.g., impacts, regolith mixing, and breccia formation, are probably insufficiently energetic to set or reset is ...
... closure events clearly marking either its onset or its termination for any given planetesimal associated with a specific meteorite type. Processes directly associated with early accretion, e.g., impacts, regolith mixing, and breccia formation, are probably insufficiently energetic to set or reset is ...
08_LectureOutline - UCO/Lick Observatory
... – Testing and observation leads from hypothesis to theory. • Where did the solar system come from? – The nebular theory states that solar system formed from a large interstellar gas cloud. – Galactic recycling built the elements from which planets formed. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. ...
... – Testing and observation leads from hypothesis to theory. • Where did the solar system come from? – The nebular theory states that solar system formed from a large interstellar gas cloud. – Galactic recycling built the elements from which planets formed. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. ...
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... – Testing and observation leads from hypothesis to theory. • Where did the solar system come from? – The nebular theory states that solar system formed from a large interstellar gas cloud. – Galactic recycling built the elements from which planets formed. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. ...
... – Testing and observation leads from hypothesis to theory. • Where did the solar system come from? – The nebular theory states that solar system formed from a large interstellar gas cloud. – Galactic recycling built the elements from which planets formed. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. ...
3 Satellites of Other Planets
... size from particles the size of dust to chunks as big as a house. Each piece follows its own orbit around Saturn. Scientists once thought that the material in Saturn’s rings was as old as Saturn itself. Evidence now shows that the rings are much younger. Scientists think the particles came from a la ...
... size from particles the size of dust to chunks as big as a house. Each piece follows its own orbit around Saturn. Scientists once thought that the material in Saturn’s rings was as old as Saturn itself. Evidence now shows that the rings are much younger. Scientists think the particles came from a la ...
Preview Sample 2
... (p. 10) This is another very subjective question, but it should get students thinking about the size of Earth in the cosmos. At the very least, most students will be very surprised at how small our planet seems in relation to the solar system. For most students, it makes Earth seem a little more fra ...
... (p. 10) This is another very subjective question, but it should get students thinking about the size of Earth in the cosmos. At the very least, most students will be very surprised at how small our planet seems in relation to the solar system. For most students, it makes Earth seem a little more fra ...
Intro to Solar System
... than from comets have enough density to make it through our atmosphere Identify a meteorite: etch a polished surface with acid and look for Widmanstatten figures They were originally inside a larger body and could cool slowly. Intro to Solar System ...
... than from comets have enough density to make it through our atmosphere Identify a meteorite: etch a polished surface with acid and look for Widmanstatten figures They were originally inside a larger body and could cool slowly. Intro to Solar System ...
SOLAR SYSTEM
... Day length: 17 hours 15 minutes (retrograde) Average temperature: -357 F Diameter: 37,764 miles Its axis point toward Sun most of the time. Spins on side. • Bright blue green color comes from methane in atmosphere. • Has 11 known rings • Uranus has 27 moons most very small. – Largest: Miranda, Ariel ...
... Day length: 17 hours 15 minutes (retrograde) Average temperature: -357 F Diameter: 37,764 miles Its axis point toward Sun most of the time. Spins on side. • Bright blue green color comes from methane in atmosphere. • Has 11 known rings • Uranus has 27 moons most very small. – Largest: Miranda, Ariel ...
Subunit 2 - UNIT NAME
... chemicals that also react to the light and heat of the Sun, they are different colors depending on what's blocking them or how deep they are. What does this say about the stripes of Jupiter? Or the Great Red Spot? What about storms on other planets? ...
... chemicals that also react to the light and heat of the Sun, they are different colors depending on what's blocking them or how deep they are. What does this say about the stripes of Jupiter? Or the Great Red Spot? What about storms on other planets? ...
Dorn_projectF08 - Bowling Green State University
... changing appearance of its surface. The Moon orbits at roughly 380,000 km. distance with a diameter of 3475 km., compared to Earth it is 27% smaller with a reflection magnitude at opposition of -12.7. The best views through a telescope are between the crescent and quarter phases when angled light fr ...
... changing appearance of its surface. The Moon orbits at roughly 380,000 km. distance with a diameter of 3475 km., compared to Earth it is 27% smaller with a reflection magnitude at opposition of -12.7. The best views through a telescope are between the crescent and quarter phases when angled light fr ...
The Planet Mercury and the Science Goals of the
... Why is Mercury so dense? What is the geologic history of Mercury? What is the structure of Mercury's core? What is the nature of Mercury's magnetic field? What are the unusual materials at Mercury's poles? What volatiles are important at Mercury? ...
... Why is Mercury so dense? What is the geologic history of Mercury? What is the structure of Mercury's core? What is the nature of Mercury's magnetic field? What are the unusual materials at Mercury's poles? What volatiles are important at Mercury? ...
ph709-14
... • In the Solar System, NOT same composition as Sun • Presence of gas implies formation while gas was still prevalent Cores: Gas giants may have a rocky or metallic core—in fact, such a core is thought to be required for a gas giant to form. ...
... • In the Solar System, NOT same composition as Sun • Presence of gas implies formation while gas was still prevalent Cores: Gas giants may have a rocky or metallic core—in fact, such a core is thought to be required for a gas giant to form. ...
Earth Science Exams and Keys 2014 Season
... 60. Which statement best describes how are galaxies distributed in space? A) the galaxies lie on sheets and chains surrounding empty space B) the galaxies are distributed uniformly in space C) there are a few large clusters of galaxies with nothing in between D) there are many clusters of galaxies n ...
... 60. Which statement best describes how are galaxies distributed in space? A) the galaxies lie on sheets and chains surrounding empty space B) the galaxies are distributed uniformly in space C) there are a few large clusters of galaxies with nothing in between D) there are many clusters of galaxies n ...
TLW design a model that describes the position and relationship of
... dwarf planets, plutoids, comets and asteroids orbit the Sun. Moons orbit the planets. There are currently eight planets and three or four (depending on the source) identified plutoids and dwarf planets in our solar system. Dwarf planets and plutoids are smaller, orbit the Sun, have enough mass and g ...
... dwarf planets, plutoids, comets and asteroids orbit the Sun. Moons orbit the planets. There are currently eight planets and three or four (depending on the source) identified plutoids and dwarf planets in our solar system. Dwarf planets and plutoids are smaller, orbit the Sun, have enough mass and g ...
The Grand Tour of Voyager An historic event occurred on August 25
... reason why wouldn’t be discovered until after Neptune was visited, but suspicions began to arise that Uranus was a different class of planet than the gas giants of Jupiter and Saturn. The Uranian moons continued the trend of providing new and unexpected characteristics not thought to belong to satel ...
... reason why wouldn’t be discovered until after Neptune was visited, but suspicions began to arise that Uranus was a different class of planet than the gas giants of Jupiter and Saturn. The Uranian moons continued the trend of providing new and unexpected characteristics not thought to belong to satel ...
with presentation
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Why do Earth satellites stay up?
... vector-based analysis of the long-term behavior of satellite orbits and apply this to several toy systems containing a single non-Keplerian perturbing potential. If only the quadrupole or J2 potential from the Earth’s equatorial bulge is present, all near-circular orbits are stable. If only the octu ...
... vector-based analysis of the long-term behavior of satellite orbits and apply this to several toy systems containing a single non-Keplerian perturbing potential. If only the quadrupole or J2 potential from the Earth’s equatorial bulge is present, all near-circular orbits are stable. If only the octu ...
A coupling of the origin of asteroid belt, planetary ring
... narrow, and are often shepherded by a pair of moons (Esposito 2002), the outer rings of Uranus are similar to the outer G and E rings of Saturn (Pater et al. 2006), narrow ringlets in the Saturnian rings also resemble the narrow rings of Uranus, the Neptunian ring system is quite similar to that of ...
... narrow, and are often shepherded by a pair of moons (Esposito 2002), the outer rings of Uranus are similar to the outer G and E rings of Saturn (Pater et al. 2006), narrow ringlets in the Saturnian rings also resemble the narrow rings of Uranus, the Neptunian ring system is quite similar to that of ...
Origins: Where Are the Aliens?
... looks like in a continuous spectrum and represented as a graph. (The overhead shows hydrogen being absorbed in four specific bands of visible light. The two absorption lines just beyond 400 nanometers are caused by calcium in the Sun’s atmosphere.) Note to students that this graphic represents stell ...
... looks like in a continuous spectrum and represented as a graph. (The overhead shows hydrogen being absorbed in four specific bands of visible light. The two absorption lines just beyond 400 nanometers are caused by calcium in the Sun’s atmosphere.) Note to students that this graphic represents stell ...
The Solar System
... Jupiter (a.k.a. Jove; Greek Zeus) was the King of the Gods, the ruler of Olympus and the patron of the Roman state. Zeus was the son of Cronus (Saturn). Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the sky (after the Sun, the Moon and Venus). It has been known since prehistoric times as a bright "wande ...
... Jupiter (a.k.a. Jove; Greek Zeus) was the King of the Gods, the ruler of Olympus and the patron of the Roman state. Zeus was the son of Cronus (Saturn). Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the sky (after the Sun, the Moon and Venus). It has been known since prehistoric times as a bright "wande ...
The Story of Planet Building
... Task: Create a book that illustrates the story of how our solar system formed. Guidelines & Expectations ___/2 pts.-Title page that includes a title and your name ___/2 pts.- Minimum of 8 pages ___/6 pts.- Book is in correct chronological order ___/6 pts.- All significant steps in the formation of t ...
... Task: Create a book that illustrates the story of how our solar system formed. Guidelines & Expectations ___/2 pts.-Title page that includes a title and your name ___/2 pts.- Minimum of 8 pages ___/6 pts.- Book is in correct chronological order ___/6 pts.- All significant steps in the formation of t ...
Dwarf Planets
... Two planets circle the sun in the twilight beyond Saturn. You will find Uranus and Neptune strangely different from Jupiter and Saturn, but recognizable as planets. As you explore you will also discover a family of dwarf planets, which includes Pluto, which will give you important clues to the origi ...
... Two planets circle the sun in the twilight beyond Saturn. You will find Uranus and Neptune strangely different from Jupiter and Saturn, but recognizable as planets. As you explore you will also discover a family of dwarf planets, which includes Pluto, which will give you important clues to the origi ...
Editorial Introduction: Planetary geosciences, the Dutch contribution
... core formation in the Earth and the other terrestrial planets (and larger asteroids), but the authors show that a much larger experimental database will be required to be able to translate these sample measurements to quantitative information on core formation in the early solar system. We then trav ...
... core formation in the Earth and the other terrestrial planets (and larger asteroids), but the authors show that a much larger experimental database will be required to be able to translate these sample measurements to quantitative information on core formation in the early solar system. We then trav ...
Giant Planets
... Saturn was the first planet known to have rings. A planetary ring is a wide, flat zone of small particles that orbit a planet. All four gas giants have rings around their equators. Saturn’s rings are made of chunks of water ice the size of a building or smaller. Larger chunks, considered to be tiny ...
... Saturn was the first planet known to have rings. A planetary ring is a wide, flat zone of small particles that orbit a planet. All four gas giants have rings around their equators. Saturn’s rings are made of chunks of water ice the size of a building or smaller. Larger chunks, considered to be tiny ...
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.