Our Solar System
... e. 6.2 million 2. Which of the following is not a characteristic of the terrestrial planets? a. low average density b. orbits inside the asteroids c. craters in old surfaces d. small diameters e. very few satellites 3. A future news release might report that a new planet has been found around a star ...
... e. 6.2 million 2. Which of the following is not a characteristic of the terrestrial planets? a. low average density b. orbits inside the asteroids c. craters in old surfaces d. small diameters e. very few satellites 3. A future news release might report that a new planet has been found around a star ...
Ch. 11 - Astro1010
... the Van Allen belts but vastly larger Magnetosphere is 30 million km across ...
... the Van Allen belts but vastly larger Magnetosphere is 30 million km across ...
The Planet Neptune
... It was named after the Greek god Neptune. During the Greek mythology times, astronomers named the 4 inner planets after the most important gods. Astronomers eventually found the outer planets and keep the tradition of naming them after the gods. Once they got to Neptune, they decided to name it afte ...
... It was named after the Greek god Neptune. During the Greek mythology times, astronomers named the 4 inner planets after the most important gods. Astronomers eventually found the outer planets and keep the tradition of naming them after the gods. Once they got to Neptune, they decided to name it afte ...
Sidereus Nuncius (Print Translation)
... But what greatly exceeds all admiration, and what especially impelled us to give notice to all astronomers and philosophers, is this, that we have discovered four wandering stars, known or observed by no one before us. These, like Venus and Mercury around the Sun, 21 have their periods around a cert ...
... But what greatly exceeds all admiration, and what especially impelled us to give notice to all astronomers and philosophers, is this, that we have discovered four wandering stars, known or observed by no one before us. These, like Venus and Mercury around the Sun, 21 have their periods around a cert ...
January 2014 Astronomy Calendar by Dave Mitsky Some
... Mars grows to almost nine arc seconds in angular size and brightens to magnitude +0.3 by the end of the month. It is at both aphelion (249.3 million kilometers or 154.9 million miles from the Sun) and western quadrature on January 2nd. Mars can be found 1.4 degrees southeast of the thirdmagnitude b ...
... Mars grows to almost nine arc seconds in angular size and brightens to magnitude +0.3 by the end of the month. It is at both aphelion (249.3 million kilometers or 154.9 million miles from the Sun) and western quadrature on January 2nd. Mars can be found 1.4 degrees southeast of the thirdmagnitude b ...
Some clicker questions to review
... Question 3 a) mass times surface gravity b) mass divided by volume c) size divided by weight d) mass times surface area e) weight divided by size ...
... Question 3 a) mass times surface gravity b) mass divided by volume c) size divided by weight d) mass times surface area e) weight divided by size ...
The Terrestrial Planets
... • Earth’s atmosphere would be like the atmosphere of Venus if the solid carbonates were put back into the atmosphere. • The atmosphere of Venus would be like that of Earth if you could take the CO2 out of the atmosphere. ...
... • Earth’s atmosphere would be like the atmosphere of Venus if the solid carbonates were put back into the atmosphere. • The atmosphere of Venus would be like that of Earth if you could take the CO2 out of the atmosphere. ...
PLUTO - science1d
... Charon orbits about 19,640 km from Pluto on average. It may be covered by water ice and probably has no atmosphere. Charon is in a synchronous orbit around Pluto. That is, Charon is always over the same spot on Pluto; Charon's orbit takes exactly one Pluto day. Charon was discovered by Jim Christy i ...
... Charon orbits about 19,640 km from Pluto on average. It may be covered by water ice and probably has no atmosphere. Charon is in a synchronous orbit around Pluto. That is, Charon is always over the same spot on Pluto; Charon's orbit takes exactly one Pluto day. Charon was discovered by Jim Christy i ...
Pluto http://cseligman.com/text/planets/pluto.htm Pluto / The Rotation
... When discovered, Pluto's had no atmosphere, but as it approached the Sun, dark areas absorbed sunlight and warmed up, and gradually, nitrogen and methane ices evaporated, forming a very rarefied atmosphere (perhaps 1/100th of one percent of an Earth atmosphere). This process is still going on, as Pl ...
... When discovered, Pluto's had no atmosphere, but as it approached the Sun, dark areas absorbed sunlight and warmed up, and gradually, nitrogen and methane ices evaporated, forming a very rarefied atmosphere (perhaps 1/100th of one percent of an Earth atmosphere). This process is still going on, as Pl ...
On the irrelevance of being a PLUTO! Size Scale of Stars and Planets
... – There are 2 kinds: Gas Giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) and Classical (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) ...
... – There are 2 kinds: Gas Giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) and Classical (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) ...
Origin and Evolution of Trojan Asteroids
... In recent years, only a few new Trojans have been found to be brighter than absolute magnitude H = 9.5, and the population seems to be more or less complete down to this limit (H = 9.5 corresponds to a radius of 43 km for an assumed geometric albedo of 0.04; H = 10 corresponds to 34 km). Presently t ...
... In recent years, only a few new Trojans have been found to be brighter than absolute magnitude H = 9.5, and the population seems to be more or less complete down to this limit (H = 9.5 corresponds to a radius of 43 km for an assumed geometric albedo of 0.04; H = 10 corresponds to 34 km). Presently t ...
Galileo`s miraculous year: 1609 and the revolutionary telescope
... “The mother of love (Venus) imitates the shape of Cynthia (the Moon)”. himself before Your Highness, watching carefully, and with all spirit of willingness, not only to satisfy what concerns the Sadly, we no longer report important scientific discovers reading of mathematics in the study of Padua, bu ...
... “The mother of love (Venus) imitates the shape of Cynthia (the Moon)”. himself before Your Highness, watching carefully, and with all spirit of willingness, not only to satisfy what concerns the Sadly, we no longer report important scientific discovers reading of mathematics in the study of Padua, bu ...
The Exploration of Neptune and Triton
... styles of ring systems help us understand the conditions and processes of early planetary formation. The last decade has seen the discovery of new groups of irregular satellites at each of the giant planets. In addition to 340-km Nereid, Neptune is now known to retain at least six irregular satellit ...
... styles of ring systems help us understand the conditions and processes of early planetary formation. The last decade has seen the discovery of new groups of irregular satellites at each of the giant planets. In addition to 340-km Nereid, Neptune is now known to retain at least six irregular satellit ...
PLUTO - Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern
... of Lowell observatory at the time, recruited a good amateur astronomer who might be trained to take long-exposure photographs with their new 13-inch astrograph – a telescope specially built to continue the search for a 9th planet. Percival Lowell, the founder of the observatory thought, if he could ...
... of Lowell observatory at the time, recruited a good amateur astronomer who might be trained to take long-exposure photographs with their new 13-inch astrograph – a telescope specially built to continue the search for a 9th planet. Percival Lowell, the founder of the observatory thought, if he could ...
A coupling of the origin of asteroid belt, planetary ring
... hand, the Saturnian F ring and the Uranian ε ring are both narrow, and are generally 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 o ...
... hand, the Saturnian F ring and the Uranian ε ring are both narrow, and are generally 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 o ...
The Jovian Planets
... farther from the Sun — more subdued. © 2007 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Addison-Wesley ...
... farther from the Sun — more subdued. © 2007 Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Addison-Wesley ...
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 ...
Jupiter
... • If Jupiter had 10x its mass, it would have same radius ! Add even more mass, and Jupiter would get smaller ! • Jupiter is about as large as a planet can get. • Uranus & Neptune have less mass than Saturn, yet • they have higher densities ...
... • If Jupiter had 10x its mass, it would have same radius ! Add even more mass, and Jupiter would get smaller ! • Jupiter is about as large as a planet can get. • Uranus & Neptune have less mass than Saturn, yet • they have higher densities ...
IAU GA, Prague, Aug 2006 - Spanish Virtual Observatory
... • WHT: 2 nights (Aug 1st-2nd). 35 candidates observed. • NOT/ALFOSC: 5 nights granted in Winter 06-07. IAU GA, Prague, Aug 2006 ...
... • WHT: 2 nights (Aug 1st-2nd). 35 candidates observed. • NOT/ALFOSC: 5 nights granted in Winter 06-07. IAU GA, Prague, Aug 2006 ...
The Interior Structure, Composition, and Evolution of Giant Planets
... planets. Jupiter and Saturn, our solar system’s gas giants, combine to make up 92% of the planetary mass of our solar system. Giant planets are also vast natural laboratories for simple materials under high pressure in regimes that are not yet accessible to experiment. With the recent rise in number ...
... planets. Jupiter and Saturn, our solar system’s gas giants, combine to make up 92% of the planetary mass of our solar system. Giant planets are also vast natural laboratories for simple materials under high pressure in regimes that are not yet accessible to experiment. With the recent rise in number ...
The Interior Structure, Composition, and Evolution of Giant Planets
... planets. Jupiter and Saturn, our solar system’s gas giants, combine to make up 92% of the planetary mass of our solar system. Giant planets are also vast natural laboratories for simple materials under high pressure in regimes that are not yet accessible to experiment. With the recent rise in number ...
... planets. Jupiter and Saturn, our solar system’s gas giants, combine to make up 92% of the planetary mass of our solar system. Giant planets are also vast natural laboratories for simple materials under high pressure in regimes that are not yet accessible to experiment. With the recent rise in number ...
Year 7 Module 3 Practice Paper
... (a) Sita made a model of three parts of the solar system, the Sun, Earth and Moon. She used a marble, a torch and a tennis ball. Draw a line from each part of the solar system to the object she used. Draw only three lines. ...
... (a) Sita made a model of three parts of the solar system, the Sun, Earth and Moon. She used a marble, a torch and a tennis ball. Draw a line from each part of the solar system to the object she used. Draw only three lines. ...
1. Uranus and Neptune
... it is not a star. However, the farther a planet is from the Sun, the more slowly it moves. Uranus moves so slowly that a careful astronomer is needed to note that it is moving. In other words, Uranus is so dim and moves so slowly that it’s not surprising it was discovered only in 1781, when the othe ...
... it is not a star. However, the farther a planet is from the Sun, the more slowly it moves. Uranus moves so slowly that a careful astronomer is needed to note that it is moving. In other words, Uranus is so dim and moves so slowly that it’s not surprising it was discovered only in 1781, when the othe ...
VARIABILiTY IN THE OUTER PLANET AURORAE
... longitude of Saturn (Fig. 1, /111). This relationship may also indicate an Earth-like auroral process if it means that the orientation of Saturn’s magnetic field to the solar wind determines the strength of the aurora. Uranus. Much less observational data are available for the auroraeon Uranus and N ...
... longitude of Saturn (Fig. 1, /111). This relationship may also indicate an Earth-like auroral process if it means that the orientation of Saturn’s magnetic field to the solar wind determines the strength of the aurora. Uranus. Much less observational data are available for the auroraeon Uranus and N ...
The dynamics of Jupiter and Saturn in the gaseous protoplanetary disk
... © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Keywords: Disks; Extrasolar planets; Origin, Solar System; Planetary dynamics; Planets, migration; Solar nebula ...
... © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Keywords: Disks; Extrasolar planets; Origin, Solar System; Planetary dynamics; Planets, migration; Solar nebula ...