1. How did the size of the Neanderthal brain compare to that of
... If a nearer star passes directly along the line of sight to a bright distant star, the gravitational field of the nearer star will bend the light and cause a brightening of the distant star. If that nearer star should have a planet, the planet’s gravitational field will cause a ‘blip’ on the light c ...
... If a nearer star passes directly along the line of sight to a bright distant star, the gravitational field of the nearer star will bend the light and cause a brightening of the distant star. If that nearer star should have a planet, the planet’s gravitational field will cause a ‘blip’ on the light c ...
gas planets
... as massive as all the other planets combined - It's 318 times bigger than the Earth! • Jupiter does not have a solid surface due to its gaseous composition. The swirls and bands we see when looking at Jupiter are the tops of clouds high in its atmosphere. ...
... as massive as all the other planets combined - It's 318 times bigger than the Earth! • Jupiter does not have a solid surface due to its gaseous composition. The swirls and bands we see when looking at Jupiter are the tops of clouds high in its atmosphere. ...
What If Earth Became Tidally Locked?
... if it manages to struggle along on such a planet, will either be underground or very, very hardy. So why are some planets and moons tidally locked while others are not? All planets bulge towards their stars, and all of them have their orbit slightly out of sync with their rotation. The mechanics of ...
... if it manages to struggle along on such a planet, will either be underground or very, very hardy. So why are some planets and moons tidally locked while others are not? All planets bulge towards their stars, and all of them have their orbit slightly out of sync with their rotation. The mechanics of ...
AST101 Lecture 16 Extra Solar Planets
... •Jupiter is 4 arcsec from Sol Can we see this? Yes, but it takes special techniques, and is not easy. ...
... •Jupiter is 4 arcsec from Sol Can we see this? Yes, but it takes special techniques, and is not easy. ...
epout10
... The giant blue planet inspired ancient peoples to name it after the god of the deep blue sea. We know less about Neptune than we do about the other eight planets, although Voyager 2 gave us new information. Pluto Pluto, the ninth and, as far as we know, last planet in our solar system, was predicte ...
... The giant blue planet inspired ancient peoples to name it after the god of the deep blue sea. We know less about Neptune than we do about the other eight planets, although Voyager 2 gave us new information. Pluto Pluto, the ninth and, as far as we know, last planet in our solar system, was predicte ...
The Night Sky
... planet in the solar system. Jupiter was just at opposition (point on the sky opposite to the sun) on October 29th. On that date, Jupiter was just rising in the east as the sun was setting in the west. Reddish Mars rises around 1 a.m. daylight-savings time at the beginning of November. Throughout the ...
... planet in the solar system. Jupiter was just at opposition (point on the sky opposite to the sun) on October 29th. On that date, Jupiter was just rising in the east as the sun was setting in the west. Reddish Mars rises around 1 a.m. daylight-savings time at the beginning of November. Throughout the ...
The Position of Our Solar System
... terms of… relative distance from the sun • How are distances measured in the solar system and the universe? • What is the order of the planets? How are the planets classified? • How have our ideas about the solar system changed ...
... terms of… relative distance from the sun • How are distances measured in the solar system and the universe? • What is the order of the planets? How are the planets classified? • How have our ideas about the solar system changed ...
name_____________________ period - ISS2009
... (1) A planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its selfgravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. (2) A dwarf planet is a celestial ...
... (1) A planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its selfgravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. (2) A dwarf planet is a celestial ...
Planets Worksheet
... System. Use the websites on the Information page, your own sites or the textbook to find the following facts. ...
... System. Use the websites on the Information page, your own sites or the textbook to find the following facts. ...
6.E.1.2 Credit Recovery
... Earth. The planet revolves around the star Gliese 581, one of the closest stars outside our solar system. Data collected over a number of years shows that Gliese 581 wobbled. This wobble indicates that a planet is orbiting the star. The orbit appears to last about 13 Earth days. The planet is in a r ...
... Earth. The planet revolves around the star Gliese 581, one of the closest stars outside our solar system. Data collected over a number of years shows that Gliese 581 wobbled. This wobble indicates that a planet is orbiting the star. The orbit appears to last about 13 Earth days. The planet is in a r ...
Astronomy
... Solar system quizes - How well do you know the solar system? This resource contains whiteboard activities to order and name the planets corrrectly as well as a palnet database - by eChalk Hidden Pairs Game on Planet Facts - by KT - Microsoft ...
... Solar system quizes - How well do you know the solar system? This resource contains whiteboard activities to order and name the planets corrrectly as well as a palnet database - by eChalk Hidden Pairs Game on Planet Facts - by KT - Microsoft ...
First evidence for water ice clouds found outside solar
... characterized. Their findings are the result of 151 images taken over three nights and combined. The object, named WISE J085510.83-071442.5, or W0855, was first seen by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Explorer mission and published earlier this year. But it was not known if it could be detected by Earth- ...
... characterized. Their findings are the result of 151 images taken over three nights and combined. The object, named WISE J085510.83-071442.5, or W0855, was first seen by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Explorer mission and published earlier this year. But it was not known if it could be detected by Earth- ...
Kepler`s Laws of Planetary Motion
... orbital orientation is described by the INCLINATION ( i ) - the tilt of the orbital plane to the orbital plane of the earth. ...
... orbital orientation is described by the INCLINATION ( i ) - the tilt of the orbital plane to the orbital plane of the earth. ...
Planets and Moons
... and is now considered a dward planet Since Pluto is far away and so small, you need a medium-sized professional telescope or a good amateur telescope to spot it. Noone knows what Pluto looks like – it‘s too far away and too small. The picture in the background is an artist‘s rendition. Pluto h ...
... and is now considered a dward planet Since Pluto is far away and so small, you need a medium-sized professional telescope or a good amateur telescope to spot it. Noone knows what Pluto looks like – it‘s too far away and too small. The picture in the background is an artist‘s rendition. Pluto h ...
Eight Planets
... Galileo was the first to observe it with a telescope in 1610. Like Jupiter, Saturn is a gas planet, about 75% hydrogen and 25% helium. Saturn's rings, unlike the rings of the other planets, are very bright. ...
... Galileo was the first to observe it with a telescope in 1610. Like Jupiter, Saturn is a gas planet, about 75% hydrogen and 25% helium. Saturn's rings, unlike the rings of the other planets, are very bright. ...
Activity: Planets and Scale - GK-12
... The ratio between the actual size of something and a representation of it; "the scale of the map"; "the scale of the model." Procedure Background Our solar system has at its center, an average star we call the Sun. In orbit around the Sun are the nine planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, S ...
... The ratio between the actual size of something and a representation of it; "the scale of the map"; "the scale of the model." Procedure Background Our solar system has at its center, an average star we call the Sun. In orbit around the Sun are the nine planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, S ...
Earth years
... system in which all of the planets revolve around the sun; Copernicus believed in this heliocentric system ...
... system in which all of the planets revolve around the sun; Copernicus believed in this heliocentric system ...
Ch. 3 Sec. 5 Notes
... *Most comets are found in one of two regions: 1. Kuiper belt: doughnut-shaped region that extends from beyond Neptune's orbit to 100 times Earth's distance from the sun 2. Oort Cloud: spherical region of comets that surrounds the solar system out to more than 1,000 times the distance between Pluto a ...
... *Most comets are found in one of two regions: 1. Kuiper belt: doughnut-shaped region that extends from beyond Neptune's orbit to 100 times Earth's distance from the sun 2. Oort Cloud: spherical region of comets that surrounds the solar system out to more than 1,000 times the distance between Pluto a ...
doc - UWM
... We always see the same side of the Moon because it doesn’t rotate. FALSE. We always see the same side of the Moon because it does rotate. Because it takes about the same amount of time to rotate as it does to revolve around the Earth, we always see the same side. The side we don’t see is known as “t ...
... We always see the same side of the Moon because it doesn’t rotate. FALSE. We always see the same side of the Moon because it does rotate. Because it takes about the same amount of time to rotate as it does to revolve around the Earth, we always see the same side. The side we don’t see is known as “t ...
Our Solar System
... Asteroids and Other Objects in Our Solar System Asteroids – rocks similar to that which ...
... Asteroids and Other Objects in Our Solar System Asteroids – rocks similar to that which ...
Creature Adaptations for the Universe
... 1. Ask students if they think life exists on their planet. “Could humans survive, why not?”, “What sort of life do scientists expect to find on planets?” 2. Tell students they will create a fictitious animal and model it out of clay. This animal has to meet certain criteria. The animal must have thr ...
... 1. Ask students if they think life exists on their planet. “Could humans survive, why not?”, “What sort of life do scientists expect to find on planets?” 2. Tell students they will create a fictitious animal and model it out of clay. This animal has to meet certain criteria. The animal must have thr ...
General Proper es of the Terrestrial Planets
... • All the planets revolve around the Sun in a counterclockwise (prograde) direcCon. As they move in their orbits, they also change their poisCon in the sky. • The apparent moCon of the planets in ...
... • All the planets revolve around the Sun in a counterclockwise (prograde) direcCon. As they move in their orbits, they also change their poisCon in the sky. • The apparent moCon of the planets in ...
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.