Studying Planets in the Solar System
... The materials created by each group will be part of a class solar system display. 2. Have the class brainstorm information to be included in the planetary profiles. Suggested topic questions include the following: ...
... The materials created by each group will be part of a class solar system display. 2. Have the class brainstorm information to be included in the planetary profiles. Suggested topic questions include the following: ...
November Puppy Dog New Notes
... preceded them in history. We began with a simple story. We imagined a time before people, animals, plants, a time before, earth, a time when there was nothing at all. Then out of the quiet, black darkness came a great big bang and out of this big bang swirled gas and dust. As the gases clumped toget ...
... preceded them in history. We began with a simple story. We imagined a time before people, animals, plants, a time before, earth, a time when there was nothing at all. Then out of the quiet, black darkness came a great big bang and out of this big bang swirled gas and dust. As the gases clumped toget ...
The Solar System
... Pluto is the ninth and usually the farthest planet from the sun in our solar system. It also the smallest planet in our solar system and the last to be discovered. ...
... Pluto is the ninth and usually the farthest planet from the sun in our solar system. It also the smallest planet in our solar system and the last to be discovered. ...
Neptunus
... The first accurate predictions of Uranus' motion were published in 1792. Within a few years, it was obvious that there was something wrong with the motion of the planet, as it did not follow the predictions. Alexis Bouvard, the director of the Paris Observatory, attempted to calculate improved table ...
... The first accurate predictions of Uranus' motion were published in 1792. Within a few years, it was obvious that there was something wrong with the motion of the planet, as it did not follow the predictions. Alexis Bouvard, the director of the Paris Observatory, attempted to calculate improved table ...
Ch. 4 review
... The planetary system is highly differentiated. Asteroids are very old, and not similar to terrestrial planets or Jovian planets. The Kuiper belt is a group of asteroid-sized icy bodies orbiting outside the orbit of Neptune. (KBO – Kuiper Belt Objects) The Oort Cloud is composed of icy cometary objec ...
... The planetary system is highly differentiated. Asteroids are very old, and not similar to terrestrial planets or Jovian planets. The Kuiper belt is a group of asteroid-sized icy bodies orbiting outside the orbit of Neptune. (KBO – Kuiper Belt Objects) The Oort Cloud is composed of icy cometary objec ...
HW Solar System Mnemonic
... memorizing. NASA has already visited all eight planets that retain their official title: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. In addition, the agency has its New Horizons spacecraft en route to Pluto, which the astronomical union has re-assigned to a new category of cele ...
... memorizing. NASA has already visited all eight planets that retain their official title: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. In addition, the agency has its New Horizons spacecraft en route to Pluto, which the astronomical union has re-assigned to a new category of cele ...
small rocky planets
... straight up, and one of its poles points directly at the sun. • Pluto has only one moon (Charon). Pluto’s moon is half the size of Pluto itself, which is unusually large for a moon. Because they are so close in size, sometimes Pluto and its moon are considered to be a double planet system. • Pluto w ...
... straight up, and one of its poles points directly at the sun. • Pluto has only one moon (Charon). Pluto’s moon is half the size of Pluto itself, which is unusually large for a moon. Because they are so close in size, sometimes Pluto and its moon are considered to be a double planet system. • Pluto w ...
2.13 Understanding our Universe
... Objects in the night sky (2) • If you are lucky you may see an object with a bright tail • This is likely to be a comet, which are made from rock, dry ice and frozen gases such as CO2 and CH4.They come from outside our Solar System • You may also see ‘shooting stars’ which are meteors, ...
... Objects in the night sky (2) • If you are lucky you may see an object with a bright tail • This is likely to be a comet, which are made from rock, dry ice and frozen gases such as CO2 and CH4.They come from outside our Solar System • You may also see ‘shooting stars’ which are meteors, ...
The Solar System
... __________ - belief that the ________ ________ revolves around still incorrectly believed that planets revolved in perfect circles ...
... __________ - belief that the ________ ________ revolves around still incorrectly believed that planets revolved in perfect circles ...
Origin of the Universe and of the Solar System
... atom), with a density and temperature that had of being very high. 2º Suddenly, the atom primigenius expanded abruptly in a great explosion that initiated the expansion of the universe. The energy moved away in all directions and it was transformed into matter (by means of the theory of relativity). ...
... atom), with a density and temperature that had of being very high. 2º Suddenly, the atom primigenius expanded abruptly in a great explosion that initiated the expansion of the universe. The energy moved away in all directions and it was transformed into matter (by means of the theory of relativity). ...
Solar System
... smallest of the gas giants. Even so, if Neptune were hollow, it could hold about 60 Earths. It is so far away that it can't be seen without a telescope. In 1846 astronomers discovered Neptune. A few days later they spotted Triton, Neptune's largest moon. ...
... smallest of the gas giants. Even so, if Neptune were hollow, it could hold about 60 Earths. It is so far away that it can't be seen without a telescope. In 1846 astronomers discovered Neptune. A few days later they spotted Triton, Neptune's largest moon. ...
Astronomy
... kg/m3) are as large or larger than Jupiter (1330 kg/m 3) and Saturn (690 kg/m3). Both planets have a higher concentration of heavy elements that Jupiter or Saturn which is unexpected. Their great distances from the sun is also surprising. That far out there should have not been enough material to fo ...
... kg/m3) are as large or larger than Jupiter (1330 kg/m 3) and Saturn (690 kg/m3). Both planets have a higher concentration of heavy elements that Jupiter or Saturn which is unexpected. Their great distances from the sun is also surprising. That far out there should have not been enough material to fo ...
Problems 4 File
... ”Oh look at that!” Then whoosh, and I’m gone... and they’ll never see anything like it ever again... and they won’t be able to forget me ever.” Jim Morrison (a) The asteroid 2060 Chiron is 8.5 astronomical units from the Sun at perihelion (when it is closest to the Sun). Chiron’s elliptical orbit is ...
... ”Oh look at that!” Then whoosh, and I’m gone... and they’ll never see anything like it ever again... and they won’t be able to forget me ever.” Jim Morrison (a) The asteroid 2060 Chiron is 8.5 astronomical units from the Sun at perihelion (when it is closest to the Sun). Chiron’s elliptical orbit is ...
Test#2
... Please indicate the best answer to the following questions on the answer sheet provided. 1. The greenhouse effect occurs because a) carbon dioxide is transparent to visible light and opaque to infrared radiation. b) carbon dioxide is transparent to infrared radiation and opaque to ultraviolet radiat ...
... Please indicate the best answer to the following questions on the answer sheet provided. 1. The greenhouse effect occurs because a) carbon dioxide is transparent to visible light and opaque to infrared radiation. b) carbon dioxide is transparent to infrared radiation and opaque to ultraviolet radiat ...
worksheet.
... The tails are gases evaporated from the icy cores and dust freed as the ices melt. Comets that stray into the inner (planetary part) of the solar system are often gravitationally "captured" by a jovian planet causing them to have smaller orbits and highly shortened periods. The resulting repeated pa ...
... The tails are gases evaporated from the icy cores and dust freed as the ices melt. Comets that stray into the inner (planetary part) of the solar system are often gravitationally "captured" by a jovian planet causing them to have smaller orbits and highly shortened periods. The resulting repeated pa ...
Word Meaning The Solar System and Beyond – Word Bank
... The length of time it takes a planet to go around the Sun. One year on Earth is 365.25 days ...
... The length of time it takes a planet to go around the Sun. One year on Earth is 365.25 days ...
Beyond Pluto
... Nowadays Brown, a planetary astronomer at Caltech, has no doubt about Pluto‘s place in the solar system: ―Pluto is not a planet. There is no logical reason to call Pluto a planet.‖ Like a growing number of his colleagues, Brown believes Pluto is best understood as the largest known member of the Kui ...
... Nowadays Brown, a planetary astronomer at Caltech, has no doubt about Pluto‘s place in the solar system: ―Pluto is not a planet. There is no logical reason to call Pluto a planet.‖ Like a growing number of his colleagues, Brown believes Pluto is best understood as the largest known member of the Kui ...
File
... moon orbits the earth, affecting the ocean tides, and slowing the Earth’s rotation with its gravity. The Earth and its solar system are part of a bigger area of space called the Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way is a galaxy named this way because it appears in the sky as a “Milky” glowing band. In 161 ...
... moon orbits the earth, affecting the ocean tides, and slowing the Earth’s rotation with its gravity. The Earth and its solar system are part of a bigger area of space called the Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way is a galaxy named this way because it appears in the sky as a “Milky” glowing band. In 161 ...
Day-26
... have 1 to ten times the mass of Jupiter. Some of these orbit close to their stars and are called hot Jupiters. It is easier to find these very large planets due to the greater “wobble” they cause for their stars. ...
... have 1 to ten times the mass of Jupiter. Some of these orbit close to their stars and are called hot Jupiters. It is easier to find these very large planets due to the greater “wobble” they cause for their stars. ...
STREAMing THE SOLAR SYSTEM with Third Grade
... LESSON REFLECTIONS: Student Observations: The students were very excited about this lessons. They were astounded by the distance between each planet, especially the outer planets. ...
... LESSON REFLECTIONS: Student Observations: The students were very excited about this lessons. They were astounded by the distance between each planet, especially the outer planets. ...
1 When Is a Planet Not a Planet? The Story of Pluto
... they determined Piazzi had found another new planet. It was named Ceres. But the following year, astronomers found an object similar to Ceres in the same orbit. Then they found another. And another. The astronomers were puzzled. Could there be that many new planets? William Herschel suggested they ...
... they determined Piazzi had found another new planet. It was named Ceres. But the following year, astronomers found an object similar to Ceres in the same orbit. Then they found another. And another. The astronomers were puzzled. Could there be that many new planets? William Herschel suggested they ...
Large and small planets Journey through the Solar System
... Using the table below, write the information from the second column (the diameter) next to the planets on the board. Explain clearly to the children that the Sun is very large, and that it is not a planet at all, but a star. It is interesting to see how large the sun is compared to the planets. Use ...
... Using the table below, write the information from the second column (the diameter) next to the planets on the board. Explain clearly to the children that the Sun is very large, and that it is not a planet at all, but a star. It is interesting to see how large the sun is compared to the planets. Use ...
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.