our solar system - brinson1to1presentation
... Neptune is more than two billion miles from the Earth. It has a Great Dark Spot similar to Jupiter’s Red Spot. Not all astronomers use telescopes. Some use mathematics. The eighth planet (Neptune) would have been found in 1845 if there were better telescopes available then. The planet was named Nept ...
... Neptune is more than two billion miles from the Earth. It has a Great Dark Spot similar to Jupiter’s Red Spot. Not all astronomers use telescopes. Some use mathematics. The eighth planet (Neptune) would have been found in 1845 if there were better telescopes available then. The planet was named Nept ...
Star - Danielle`s science9 weebly
... these celestial objects came to be are even more fascinating. Ancients developed their ideas of what was happening in the sky and explained it with their frame of reference. The constellations were patterns that seemed to tell stories about people. Stars are not always in the sky at the same time, b ...
... these celestial objects came to be are even more fascinating. Ancients developed their ideas of what was happening in the sky and explained it with their frame of reference. The constellations were patterns that seemed to tell stories about people. Stars are not always in the sky at the same time, b ...
Uninhabitableearth
... Write on the board before students enter the room: “What conditions are necessary to sustain life on earth?” Brainstorm to review the following term: “Habitable Zone.” As a class watch the Newsy.com video Study: Earth Will Be Uninhabitable in 1.75 Billion Years at http://www.newsy.com/videos/study-e ...
... Write on the board before students enter the room: “What conditions are necessary to sustain life on earth?” Brainstorm to review the following term: “Habitable Zone.” As a class watch the Newsy.com video Study: Earth Will Be Uninhabitable in 1.75 Billion Years at http://www.newsy.com/videos/study-e ...
Response to Matthew Miller re Geocentrism
... calculations for predicting a Transit of Venus simply wouldn't work, if transits still happened at all. Remember we're dealing with a sun slightly larger than the moon, orbiting a distance not that far beyond it. Venus would either be a large planet far beyond the sun's orbit, or a much smaller sate ...
... calculations for predicting a Transit of Venus simply wouldn't work, if transits still happened at all. Remember we're dealing with a sun slightly larger than the moon, orbiting a distance not that far beyond it. Venus would either be a large planet far beyond the sun's orbit, or a much smaller sate ...
Exam Name___________________________________
... 50) Which two jovian planets have magnetic field tilts that are not along their rotation poles? A) Saturn and Neptune B) Jupiter and Uranus C) Jupiter and Saturn D) Uranus and Neptune E) All jovian planets have magnetic fields close to their rotational axes. ...
... 50) Which two jovian planets have magnetic field tilts that are not along their rotation poles? A) Saturn and Neptune B) Jupiter and Uranus C) Jupiter and Saturn D) Uranus and Neptune E) All jovian planets have magnetic fields close to their rotational axes. ...
NEAR INFRARED CAMERA (NIRCAM) - Lunar and Planetary Institute
... planets in the sky from the perspective of the Earth. Finally, when we do our night time observing, they can see, for themselves, the placement of the planets in the night sky and compare what they see in the sky with the model they created with the Human Orrery. There are also plates to show the po ...
... planets in the sky from the perspective of the Earth. Finally, when we do our night time observing, they can see, for themselves, the placement of the planets in the night sky and compare what they see in the sky with the model they created with the Human Orrery. There are also plates to show the po ...
Solar System by Halfs
... ACTUAL AU distance? Hint: look at the ratios, not the actual measures. That is, Jupiter is 5.2 times as far as Earth is from the Sun. Is yours? 2. Pluto is not a planet, but Bode’s Law predicted the farthest planet to be at 78 AU (Pluto’s average orbital distance is 39.6 AU). Neptune and Pluto were ...
... ACTUAL AU distance? Hint: look at the ratios, not the actual measures. That is, Jupiter is 5.2 times as far as Earth is from the Sun. Is yours? 2. Pluto is not a planet, but Bode’s Law predicted the farthest planet to be at 78 AU (Pluto’s average orbital distance is 39.6 AU). Neptune and Pluto were ...
Lecture4
... The HR (Hertzsprung-Russell) Diagram (1913) Notice that a 100 solar mass star is about a million times brighter than the Sun. It has 100 times more fuel but uses it up a million times faster. It therefore lives only about 10-4 times as long as the Sun. Since the Sun lives 10 billion years, a 100 so ...
... The HR (Hertzsprung-Russell) Diagram (1913) Notice that a 100 solar mass star is about a million times brighter than the Sun. It has 100 times more fuel but uses it up a million times faster. It therefore lives only about 10-4 times as long as the Sun. Since the Sun lives 10 billion years, a 100 so ...
Word - El Camino College
... image). The planet has about 5 times Jupiter’s mass, well within the range of being a planet and way too low to be even a brown dwarf, let alone a star. It orbits the star at about 1.5 times the distance Pluto orbits from the Sun. The two are close by as these things go: just 70 parsecs (230 light y ...
... image). The planet has about 5 times Jupiter’s mass, well within the range of being a planet and way too low to be even a brown dwarf, let alone a star. It orbits the star at about 1.5 times the distance Pluto orbits from the Sun. The two are close by as these things go: just 70 parsecs (230 light y ...
Johannes Kepler
... Thinking Before Kepler’s Discoveries Many astronomers theorized about the planets and stars in the nighttime sky. As astronomical technology increased in accuracy, so did the theories of planetary motion which were mostly driven from observation. ...
... Thinking Before Kepler’s Discoveries Many astronomers theorized about the planets and stars in the nighttime sky. As astronomical technology increased in accuracy, so did the theories of planetary motion which were mostly driven from observation. ...
astronomy notes2013
... 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the Special Theory of Relativity, positing that space and time are not separate continuums. 1915 - Albert Einstein publishes the General Theory of Relativity, which requires a finite spherical universe. 1922 - The Russian mathematician and meteorologist Friedmann rea ...
... 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the Special Theory of Relativity, positing that space and time are not separate continuums. 1915 - Albert Einstein publishes the General Theory of Relativity, which requires a finite spherical universe. 1922 - The Russian mathematician and meteorologist Friedmann rea ...
Grade 9 Science – Unit 4 Space Quiz
... 25. What is “…the apparent looping motion of a planet in the night sky so the planet appears to move east to west rather than its normal west to east motion?” a. Gravitational Force b. Celestial Sphere c. Retrograde Motion d. Azimuth and Altitude 26. During the lifetime of a star, why does a star b ...
... 25. What is “…the apparent looping motion of a planet in the night sky so the planet appears to move east to west rather than its normal west to east motion?” a. Gravitational Force b. Celestial Sphere c. Retrograde Motion d. Azimuth and Altitude 26. During the lifetime of a star, why does a star b ...
chapter 7 - Stonebraemandarin
... a year that is smallest gas 84 Earth years giant long a year that is 165 Earth a gas giant years long has rings a gas giant at least has rings 27 moons rotates on its side ...
... a year that is smallest gas 84 Earth years giant long a year that is 165 Earth a gas giant years long has rings a gas giant at least has rings 27 moons rotates on its side ...
Parent Meeting Materials
... Home Run: ball is hit out of the area of play; batter scores a run. Inning: the way a baseball game is divided; each team has nine opportunities to attempt to score runs. Walk: when four pitches fall outside of the strike zone, the batter moves to first base without hitting. Base: where players need ...
... Home Run: ball is hit out of the area of play; batter scores a run. Inning: the way a baseball game is divided; each team has nine opportunities to attempt to score runs. Walk: when four pitches fall outside of the strike zone, the batter moves to first base without hitting. Base: where players need ...
Tidal Mechanism as an Impossible Cause of the Observed Secular
... Astronomical Unit (AU) of 15 meters per century. Recently, Miura et al. (2009, PASJ, 61, 1247) proposed that angular-momentum transfer from the rotation of the Sun to the orbital motion of the solar-system planets may explain the observed increase of the AU. They assumed that the tidal effect betwee ...
... Astronomical Unit (AU) of 15 meters per century. Recently, Miura et al. (2009, PASJ, 61, 1247) proposed that angular-momentum transfer from the rotation of the Sun to the orbital motion of the solar-system planets may explain the observed increase of the AU. They assumed that the tidal effect betwee ...
Evolution of the Solar System and Planets Homework
... D. the effect of a mountain system on Jupiter's wind system. ...
... D. the effect of a mountain system on Jupiter's wind system. ...
The birth and evolu\on of galaxies, stars
... 2. Stars: A massive luminous sphere of plasma in hydrosta0c equilibrium (gravity <-‐> gas pressure) producing fusion energy. 3. Planets: An object that is massive enough to be round, but not massive ...
... 2. Stars: A massive luminous sphere of plasma in hydrosta0c equilibrium (gravity <-‐> gas pressure) producing fusion energy. 3. Planets: An object that is massive enough to be round, but not massive ...
Power Point Presentation
... about 4 light years away It will therefore take about 80,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri The correct answer is therefore C ...
... about 4 light years away It will therefore take about 80,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri The correct answer is therefore C ...
Planet Project
... Decide what Planet you will research: Make a list of the top 3 planets you wish to ...
... Decide what Planet you will research: Make a list of the top 3 planets you wish to ...
File1 - School of Astronomy, IPM
... Exoplanets (1st session) Sohrab Rahvar physics Department, Sharif University of Technology International School for Young Astronomers ...
... Exoplanets (1st session) Sohrab Rahvar physics Department, Sharif University of Technology International School for Young Astronomers ...
EDCI 270 Project III
... Saturn is the least dense planet. If there were an ocean big enough, Saturn would float in it. Saturn is most known for it's amazing rings, hundreds of thousands of miles wide. Saturn is the farthest planet that can be seen without the aid of a telescope. ...
... Saturn is the least dense planet. If there were an ocean big enough, Saturn would float in it. Saturn is most known for it's amazing rings, hundreds of thousands of miles wide. Saturn is the farthest planet that can be seen without the aid of a telescope. ...
Chapter 19
... Section 1: Sun, Earth, and Moon Section 2: The Inner and Outer Planets Section 3: Formation of the Solar System ...
... Section 1: Sun, Earth, and Moon Section 2: The Inner and Outer Planets Section 3: Formation of the Solar System ...
21trans-neptunian2s
... Needed new definition when rest of solar system was discovered with telescopes ...
... Needed new definition when rest of solar system was discovered with telescopes ...
Definition of planet
The definition of planet, since the word was coined by the ancient Greeks, has included within its scope a wide range of celestial bodies. Greek astronomers employed the term asteres planetai (ἀστέρες πλανῆται), ""wandering stars"", for star-like objects which apparently moved over the sky. Over the millennia, the term has included a variety of different objects, from the Sun and the Moon to satellites and asteroids.By the end of the 19th century the word planet, though it had yet to be defined, had become a working term applied only to a small set of objects in the Solar System. After 1992, however, astronomers began to discover many additional objects beyond the orbit of Neptune, as well as hundreds of objects orbiting other stars. These discoveries not only increased the number of potential planets, but also expanded their variety and peculiarity. Some were nearly large enough to be stars, while others were smaller than Earth's moon. These discoveries challenged long-perceived notions of what a planet could be.The issue of a clear definition for planet came to a head in 2005 with the discovery of the trans-Neptunian object Eris, a body more massive than the smallest then-accepted planet, Pluto. In its 2006 response, the International Astronomical Union (IAU), recognised by astronomers as the world body responsible for resolving issues of nomenclature, released its decision on the matter. This definition, which applies only to the Solar System, states that a planet is a body that orbits the Sun, is massive enough for its own gravity to make it round, and has ""cleared its neighbourhood"" of smaller objects around its orbit. Under this new definition, Pluto and the other trans-Neptunian objects do not qualify as planets. The IAU's decision has not resolved all controversies, and while many scientists have accepted the definition, some in the astronomical community have rejected it outright.