ES Lesson Plans
... 23.3 The Outer Planets Saturn: The Elegant Planet The most prominent feature of Saturn is its system of rings. Features of Saturn • Saturn’s atmosphere is very active, with winds roaring at up to 1500 kilometers per hour. • Large cyclonic “storms” similar to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, although s ...
... 23.3 The Outer Planets Saturn: The Elegant Planet The most prominent feature of Saturn is its system of rings. Features of Saturn • Saturn’s atmosphere is very active, with winds roaring at up to 1500 kilometers per hour. • Large cyclonic “storms” similar to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, although s ...
Chapter 23 Review
... 23.3 The Outer Planets Saturn: The Elegant Planet The most prominent feature of Saturn is its system of rings. Features of Saturn • Saturn’s atmosphere is very active, with winds roaring at up to 1500 kilometers per hour. • Large cyclonic “storms” similar to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, although s ...
... 23.3 The Outer Planets Saturn: The Elegant Planet The most prominent feature of Saturn is its system of rings. Features of Saturn • Saturn’s atmosphere is very active, with winds roaring at up to 1500 kilometers per hour. • Large cyclonic “storms” similar to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, although s ...
Touring_Our_Solar_System_PowerPoint
... 23.3 The Outer Planets Saturn: The Elegant Planet The most prominent feature of Saturn is its system of rings. Features of Saturn • Saturn’s atmosphere is very active, with winds roaring at up to 1500 kilometers per hour. • Large cyclonic “storms” similar to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, although s ...
... 23.3 The Outer Planets Saturn: The Elegant Planet The most prominent feature of Saturn is its system of rings. Features of Saturn • Saturn’s atmosphere is very active, with winds roaring at up to 1500 kilometers per hour. • Large cyclonic “storms” similar to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, although s ...
Lecture14: Solar System Debris
... Its orbit is highly eccentric; at times it is closer to the Sun than Neptune. Its orbit inclination is also much larger than other planets. Pluto rotates in the opposite direction from most other planets. Pluto is smaller than 7 satellites in the solar system. It has an average density of about 1900 ...
... Its orbit is highly eccentric; at times it is closer to the Sun than Neptune. Its orbit inclination is also much larger than other planets. Pluto rotates in the opposite direction from most other planets. Pluto is smaller than 7 satellites in the solar system. It has an average density of about 1900 ...
Planetary Properties
... Planets move around the Sun in closed paths, referred to as orbits. Certain properties of a planet’s orbit can affect the probability of whether or not life will develop. The properties of orbital motion have been well understood ever since Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) first proposed his three laws ...
... Planets move around the Sun in closed paths, referred to as orbits. Certain properties of a planet’s orbit can affect the probability of whether or not life will develop. The properties of orbital motion have been well understood ever since Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) first proposed his three laws ...
Equipment: Rulers, meter sticks, string, tennis balls, transparent tape
... size of a tennis ball and the sizes of the planets and the sizes of the orbits will be calculated accordingly. For this exercise, you will work in groups of 6-9 students, each responsible for 1planet or up to 3 inner planets. If one team member is doing multiple planets (fewer than 9 team members), ...
... size of a tennis ball and the sizes of the planets and the sizes of the orbits will be calculated accordingly. For this exercise, you will work in groups of 6-9 students, each responsible for 1planet or up to 3 inner planets. If one team member is doing multiple planets (fewer than 9 team members), ...
PowerPoint
... Formation of OUR Solar System? • Looks like a supernova explosion nearby may have done the job… Probably a type II high-mass star supernova, from the relative abundances of elements in meteorites. • Blast wave compresses interstellar cloud, and the debris of that explosion is contained in the first ...
... Formation of OUR Solar System? • Looks like a supernova explosion nearby may have done the job… Probably a type II high-mass star supernova, from the relative abundances of elements in meteorites. • Blast wave compresses interstellar cloud, and the debris of that explosion is contained in the first ...
Lecture Exam 1 Review
... Lecture Exam 1 Review This review sheet serves as a reminder of the material covered in the lectures. It should be noted that some items from lecture may not be included on this review sheet, but will still be referenced on the exam. As such, use these questions as a reminder of the material that wa ...
... Lecture Exam 1 Review This review sheet serves as a reminder of the material covered in the lectures. It should be noted that some items from lecture may not be included on this review sheet, but will still be referenced on the exam. As such, use these questions as a reminder of the material that wa ...
Carter K 1 - Mrs. Anthony`s English 2
... tell us the probability of intelligent life. The Equation is N=R*-fp-n-fl-fi-fc-L. N is the number of civilizations in the Milky Way, which give off detectable electromagnetic emissions. Meaning there may be life, because things like microwaves give off these types of emissions, as well as the sun a ...
... tell us the probability of intelligent life. The Equation is N=R*-fp-n-fl-fi-fc-L. N is the number of civilizations in the Milky Way, which give off detectable electromagnetic emissions. Meaning there may be life, because things like microwaves give off these types of emissions, as well as the sun a ...
Asteroid Belt
... the main belt has 700 000 to 1.7 million asteroids with a diameter of 1 km or more. The apparent magnitudes of most of the known asteroids are 11–19, with the median at about 16. The total mass of the asteroid belt is estimated to be 3.0×1021–3.6×1021 kilograms, which is just 4% of the Earth's Moon. ...
... the main belt has 700 000 to 1.7 million asteroids with a diameter of 1 km or more. The apparent magnitudes of most of the known asteroids are 11–19, with the median at about 16. The total mass of the asteroid belt is estimated to be 3.0×1021–3.6×1021 kilograms, which is just 4% of the Earth's Moon. ...
Name
... 36) The planets, the Earth, and the Sun all tend to fall in the same plane called … A) perihelion. B) aphelion. C) the ecliptic. D) retrograde motion. E) the umbra. 37) All stars in the sky appear to lie on the … A) celestial equator. B) celestial sphere. C) zodiac. D) celestial north pole. E) celes ...
... 36) The planets, the Earth, and the Sun all tend to fall in the same plane called … A) perihelion. B) aphelion. C) the ecliptic. D) retrograde motion. E) the umbra. 37) All stars in the sky appear to lie on the … A) celestial equator. B) celestial sphere. C) zodiac. D) celestial north pole. E) celes ...
Chapter 8 Concept Review - Cambridge University Press
... know little about it (Sec. 8.1). The discovery of its moon, Charon, allowed us to calculate that Pluto contains only 1/500 the mass of the Earth (Sec. 8.1a). Mutual occultations of Pluto and Charon revealed sizes and surface structures of each. Pluto has a very thin nitr ...
... know little about it (Sec. 8.1). The discovery of its moon, Charon, allowed us to calculate that Pluto contains only 1/500 the mass of the Earth (Sec. 8.1a). Mutual occultations of Pluto and Charon revealed sizes and surface structures of each. Pluto has a very thin nitr ...
Why was Pluto once considered a planet?
... to be in error that predicted a planet beyond Neptune, based on the motions of Uranus and Neptune. • Not N t kknowing i off the th error, Clyde Cl d W. W Tombaugh T b h att Lowell L ll Observatory in Arizona did a very careful sky survey. For 14 years Tombaugh scanned the skies, and discovered: ...
... to be in error that predicted a planet beyond Neptune, based on the motions of Uranus and Neptune. • Not N t kknowing i off the th error, Clyde Cl d W. W Tombaugh T b h att Lowell L ll Observatory in Arizona did a very careful sky survey. For 14 years Tombaugh scanned the skies, and discovered: ...
Exploring the Outer Solar System Jane Luu When I was
... the occulting body is; this technique has long been used for astronomers to measure the size of nearby asteroids. In our case, we just wanted to use occultations to indicate the presence of distant objects; size was a secondary issue. The whippoorwills of Arizona quickly put an end to our occultatio ...
... the occulting body is; this technique has long been used for astronomers to measure the size of nearby asteroids. In our case, we just wanted to use occultations to indicate the presence of distant objects; size was a secondary issue. The whippoorwills of Arizona quickly put an end to our occultatio ...
Solar System Model
... IV. Astronomical Distance Units for the Solar System Even in the relatively small neighborhood of our solar system, the distances become large very quickly. Using units such as kilometers becomes unwieldy when they reach the billions and beyond. Astronomers have therefore created their own unit for ...
... IV. Astronomical Distance Units for the Solar System Even in the relatively small neighborhood of our solar system, the distances become large very quickly. Using units such as kilometers becomes unwieldy when they reach the billions and beyond. Astronomers have therefore created their own unit for ...
Space - Great Barr Academy
... Earth is the only KNOWN planet that capable of supporting life. This does not mean that it is the only one! ...
... Earth is the only KNOWN planet that capable of supporting life. This does not mean that it is the only one! ...
Click for More Missions.
... have the option of watching a movie or taking a quiz. Watch the movie first and fill out the answers on your exploration guide. ...
... have the option of watching a movie or taking a quiz. Watch the movie first and fill out the answers on your exploration guide. ...
File - Mr. Dudek`s Science
... Understanding the Solar System • In the early 1600s, a German mathematician Johannes Kepler calculated the speeds of the planets and found that they were ellipses. • He also learned that the speed of each of the planets was different and the outer planets took much longer to orbit the Sun (Mercury= ...
... Understanding the Solar System • In the early 1600s, a German mathematician Johannes Kepler calculated the speeds of the planets and found that they were ellipses. • He also learned that the speed of each of the planets was different and the outer planets took much longer to orbit the Sun (Mercury= ...
Exam 1 Review
... Can you describe the basic structure of the Earth’s geology? Do you understand how scientists know the properties of the Earth’s interior? Do you know what types of geologic formations are located above the three different plate boundaries? Can you describe the basic structure of the Earth’s atmosph ...
... Can you describe the basic structure of the Earth’s geology? Do you understand how scientists know the properties of the Earth’s interior? Do you know what types of geologic formations are located above the three different plate boundaries? Can you describe the basic structure of the Earth’s atmosph ...
Astronomy From Å to ZZ — Howard L. Cohen
... same face toward the other but also causes each to remain stationary over one point on their surfaces. (The Moon’s rotation period is also synchronous with its orbit period around Earth so the Moon keeps the same face toward Earth. However, Earth’s rotation is not synchronous.) Charon’s orbit about ...
... same face toward the other but also causes each to remain stationary over one point on their surfaces. (The Moon’s rotation period is also synchronous with its orbit period around Earth so the Moon keeps the same face toward Earth. However, Earth’s rotation is not synchronous.) Charon’s orbit about ...
Universal Gravitation
... of the work of early scientists (Galileo, Kepler, Newton, etc..) we know that planets, stars, comets and other bodies follow the same laws as objects do on Earth. ...
... of the work of early scientists (Galileo, Kepler, Newton, etc..) we know that planets, stars, comets and other bodies follow the same laws as objects do on Earth. ...
Planets beyond Neptune
Following the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846, there was considerable speculation that another planet might exist beyond its orbit. The search began in the mid-19th century and culminated at the start of the 20th with Percival Lowell's quest for Planet X. Lowell proposed the Planet X hypothesis to explain apparent discrepancies in the orbits of the giant planets, particularly Uranus and Neptune, speculating that the gravity of a large unseen ninth planet could have perturbed Uranus enough to account for the irregularities.Clyde Tombaugh's discovery of Pluto in 1930 appeared to validate Lowell's hypothesis, and Pluto was officially named the ninth planet. In 1978, Pluto was conclusively determined to be too small for its gravity to affect the giant planets, resulting in a brief search for a tenth planet. The search was largely abandoned in the early 1990s, when a study of measurements made by the Voyager 2 spacecraft found that the irregularities observed in Uranus's orbit were due to a slight overestimation of Neptune's mass. After 1992, the discovery of numerous small icy objects with similar or even wider orbits than Pluto led to a debate over whether Pluto should remain a planet, or whether it and its neighbours should, like the asteroids, be given their own separate classification. Although a number of the larger members of this group were initially described as planets, in 2006 the International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto and its largest neighbours as dwarf planets, leaving Neptune the farthest known planet in the Solar System.Today, the astronomical community widely agrees that Planet X, as originally envisioned, does not exist, but the concept of Planet X has been revived by a number of astronomers to explain other anomalies observed in the outer Solar System. In popular culture, and even among some astronomers, Planet X has become a stand-in term for any undiscovered planet in the outer Solar System, regardless of its relationship to Lowell's hypothesis. Other trans-Neptunian planets have also been suggested, based on different evidence. As of March 2014, observations with the WISE telescope have ruled out the possibility of a Saturn-sized object out to 10,000 AU, and a Jupiter-sized or larger object out to 26,000 AU.