Galactic planetary science
... lighter than ten Earth masses (super-Earths/sub-Neptunes, right-hand panel of Fig. 1) are even more enigmatic, as they often can be explained in different ways (Adams et al., 2008; Grasset et al., 2009; Valencia et al., 2013). Among those, Kepler-10 b, Kepler-78 b, CoRoT-7 b and 55 Cnc e all have hi ...
... lighter than ten Earth masses (super-Earths/sub-Neptunes, right-hand panel of Fig. 1) are even more enigmatic, as they often can be explained in different ways (Adams et al., 2008; Grasset et al., 2009; Valencia et al., 2013). Among those, Kepler-10 b, Kepler-78 b, CoRoT-7 b and 55 Cnc e all have hi ...
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... • 1991 Radio astronomers Alex Wolszczan & Dale Frail discovered planets around a pulsar PSR1257+12 – Variations in arrival times of pulses suggests presence of three or more planets – Planets probably formed from debris left after supernova explosion ...
... • 1991 Radio astronomers Alex Wolszczan & Dale Frail discovered planets around a pulsar PSR1257+12 – Variations in arrival times of pulses suggests presence of three or more planets – Planets probably formed from debris left after supernova explosion ...
Spectral evidence
... • Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 • From 1930 until 2006, beyond Neptune as the ninth planet in our solar system • In 2006, however, the definition of a planet was changed! • new rules adopted by the International Astronomical Union, to qualify as a planet: ...
... • Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 • From 1930 until 2006, beyond Neptune as the ninth planet in our solar system • In 2006, however, the definition of a planet was changed! • new rules adopted by the International Astronomical Union, to qualify as a planet: ...
Asteroids and Comets II
... • We cannot measure an exact mass for a planet without knowing the tilt of its orbit, because Doppler shift tells us only the velocity toward or away from us. • Doppler data give us lower limits on masses. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. ...
... • We cannot measure an exact mass for a planet without knowing the tilt of its orbit, because Doppler shift tells us only the velocity toward or away from us. • Doppler data give us lower limits on masses. © 2014 Pearson Education, Inc. ...
NASA Kepler EPO
... What would the transit of a planet look like if you made a graph of light intensity vs time? ...
... What would the transit of a planet look like if you made a graph of light intensity vs time? ...
to latest version of Skywatcher
... A ridge around Saturn's third-largest moon has scientists scratching their heads. Pan isn’t the only Saturnian moon with a ridge. Before scientists even spotted Pan’s tutu-shaped equatorial fringe, they knew about the one on Iapetus, Saturn’s third-largest moon. With a diameter of 1400 kilometers, I ...
... A ridge around Saturn's third-largest moon has scientists scratching their heads. Pan isn’t the only Saturnian moon with a ridge. Before scientists even spotted Pan’s tutu-shaped equatorial fringe, they knew about the one on Iapetus, Saturn’s third-largest moon. With a diameter of 1400 kilometers, I ...
Motion and Moon Phases
... Compared to other stars • Sun is a star • Sun is the closest star to the Earth • Mid sized star • Sun is much larger than Earth • Sun is 93 million (93,000,000) miles away • It takes light 8 minutes to travel from the sun to the Earth • Stars pass through a life cycle ...
... Compared to other stars • Sun is a star • Sun is the closest star to the Earth • Mid sized star • Sun is much larger than Earth • Sun is 93 million (93,000,000) miles away • It takes light 8 minutes to travel from the sun to the Earth • Stars pass through a life cycle ...
Birth of Stars and Planets
... Exoplanets Outside Our Solar System • Many other planets are being found • HUGE NEWS, SEVEN EARTH-SIZED WORLDS ORBITING A RED DWARF, THREE IN THE HABITABLE ZONE • http://www.universetoday.com/133556/huge-news-seven-earth-sizedworlds-orbiting-red-dwarf-three-habitable-zone/ ...
... Exoplanets Outside Our Solar System • Many other planets are being found • HUGE NEWS, SEVEN EARTH-SIZED WORLDS ORBITING A RED DWARF, THREE IN THE HABITABLE ZONE • http://www.universetoday.com/133556/huge-news-seven-earth-sizedworlds-orbiting-red-dwarf-three-habitable-zone/ ...
show listing by grade level
... fascinating Show at The Planetarium is a visually beautiful full-dome experience about the origin of life, the marvel of nature and significance of the human mind. It’s like taking a dreamy swim through time and space. With stunning special effects and excellent sound score, this superbly animated p ...
... fascinating Show at The Planetarium is a visually beautiful full-dome experience about the origin of life, the marvel of nature and significance of the human mind. It’s like taking a dreamy swim through time and space. With stunning special effects and excellent sound score, this superbly animated p ...
Vocabulary for Unit 4: Space File
... hemisphere One half of a sphere. The half of Earth that is north of the equator is the Northern Hemisphere; the half of Earth that is south of the equator is the Southern Hemisphere orbit To travel around another object in a circular or elliptical path (verb). The path an object follows as it revolv ...
... hemisphere One half of a sphere. The half of Earth that is north of the equator is the Northern Hemisphere; the half of Earth that is south of the equator is the Southern Hemisphere orbit To travel around another object in a circular or elliptical path (verb). The path an object follows as it revolv ...
Amazing Stargazing - University of Toledo
... that way. In fact, falling stars are actually meteors, tiny pieces of rock about the size of a pea or grain of sand. Meteors look like stars that fall from the sky because they burn and glow as they plunge into the earth’s atmosphere. To see why meteors get hot, try rubbing your hands together very ...
... that way. In fact, falling stars are actually meteors, tiny pieces of rock about the size of a pea or grain of sand. Meteors look like stars that fall from the sky because they burn and glow as they plunge into the earth’s atmosphere. To see why meteors get hot, try rubbing your hands together very ...
Mon Dec 19, 2011 INERTIA, MOTION AND ACCELERATION Inertia
... The new year begins with a pretty conjunction of the moon with the planet Jupiter. Both can be seen well up in the southern sky after sunset tonight. The moon is just past first quarter, and it’s waxing toward full over the next week. The planet Jupiter appears as a bright, star-like object right be ...
... The new year begins with a pretty conjunction of the moon with the planet Jupiter. Both can be seen well up in the southern sky after sunset tonight. The moon is just past first quarter, and it’s waxing toward full over the next week. The planet Jupiter appears as a bright, star-like object right be ...
Document
... •Anyways, Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. •It was named after the Greek God Uranus. •Uranus is very unique because when it orbits, it spins like a bowling ball, rather than spinning like a top. •With this weird position, each pole faces away from the sun 21 years at a time. • It was disco ...
... •Anyways, Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. •It was named after the Greek God Uranus. •Uranus is very unique because when it orbits, it spins like a bowling ball, rather than spinning like a top. •With this weird position, each pole faces away from the sun 21 years at a time. • It was disco ...
Planet Viewing in 2011 - Montana State University Extended
... view improves as the year progresses, though, with its best showing of the year in November and December. It more than doubles in brightness during that two-month period, and rises earlier each night. By year’s end, it rises around 11 p.m. and outshines all but a handful of planets and stars. ...
... view improves as the year progresses, though, with its best showing of the year in November and December. It more than doubles in brightness during that two-month period, and rises earlier each night. By year’s end, it rises around 11 p.m. and outshines all but a handful of planets and stars. ...
3. Extrasolar Planets
... Arecibo telescope around 6.2 ms pulsar PSR B1257+12 (Wolszczan & Frail 1992) The planets are small, coplanar, low eccentricity (Konacki & Wolszczan 2003); B and C are near 3:2 resonance Mutual gravitational interactions between B and C (Malhotra 1992) detected meaning that orbital planes and masses ...
... Arecibo telescope around 6.2 ms pulsar PSR B1257+12 (Wolszczan & Frail 1992) The planets are small, coplanar, low eccentricity (Konacki & Wolszczan 2003); B and C are near 3:2 resonance Mutual gravitational interactions between B and C (Malhotra 1992) detected meaning that orbital planes and masses ...
Extrasolar planets: where are we, and where do we want to be
... Increment Pb = [1/Pb-0.1/(tmax-tmin)]-1 Repeat these steps until an “acceptable” Pb has been reached Choose Pb for the smallest value of s2 ...
... Increment Pb = [1/Pb-0.1/(tmax-tmin)]-1 Repeat these steps until an “acceptable” Pb has been reached Choose Pb for the smallest value of s2 ...
Magnetospheric Emission from Extrasolar Planets
... be of order 10 hr, or for hot Jupiters taken to be the orbital period assuming that the planet is tidally locked to its host star. In the case of stars not yet known to have planetary companions, radio limits can be inverted to obtain constraints on the presence of planets, especially useful for act ...
... be of order 10 hr, or for hot Jupiters taken to be the orbital period assuming that the planet is tidally locked to its host star. In the case of stars not yet known to have planetary companions, radio limits can be inverted to obtain constraints on the presence of planets, especially useful for act ...
Eve J. Lee - UC Berkeley Astronomy
... • Holding mentor-mentee lunch every semester to monitor academic progress and general morale of first and second year graduate students. • Meeting with the head graduate advisor at least once a year to address any concerns raised by students and faculty members. Graduate Student Representative, CITA ...
... • Holding mentor-mentee lunch every semester to monitor academic progress and general morale of first and second year graduate students. • Meeting with the head graduate advisor at least once a year to address any concerns raised by students and faculty members. Graduate Student Representative, CITA ...
Earth/Space Systems and Cycles
... _____ 5. Large glob of hot gas with a surface temperature of 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit _____ 6. Third planet from the Sun _____ 7. One of the four rocky (terrestrial) inner planets _____ 8. Pitted with small craters _____ 9. 1.4 million kilometers (870,000 miles) in diameter ____ 10. Smallest of the ...
... _____ 5. Large glob of hot gas with a surface temperature of 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit _____ 6. Third planet from the Sun _____ 7. One of the four rocky (terrestrial) inner planets _____ 8. Pitted with small craters _____ 9. 1.4 million kilometers (870,000 miles) in diameter ____ 10. Smallest of the ...
minimum mass extrasolar nebula derived from the
... system’s mass distribution is quite different from the majority of extrasolar systems explored which can be confirmed in Table 3.1. The deviation of the candidate planets surface density slopes relative to those of the confirmed planets was expected due to the fact that 87,7% of the confirmed planet ...
... system’s mass distribution is quite different from the majority of extrasolar systems explored which can be confirmed in Table 3.1. The deviation of the candidate planets surface density slopes relative to those of the confirmed planets was expected due to the fact that 87,7% of the confirmed planet ...
Dynamical relaxation and the orbits of low
... rapidly through a fragmentation process occurring in a thick disc or protostellar envelope on a scale of 100 au. Such a system then underwent dynamical relaxation on a time-scale of hundreds of orbits which resulted in ejection of most of the objects. It was found that the characteristics of massive ...
... rapidly through a fragmentation process occurring in a thick disc or protostellar envelope on a scale of 100 au. Such a system then underwent dynamical relaxation on a time-scale of hundreds of orbits which resulted in ejection of most of the objects. It was found that the characteristics of massive ...
MS Word basic text version of the above
... Astronomical and Non Astro Societies, Clubs, Groups, WI's, Scouts/Guides etc In fact - any group that will have me :-) The cost of the talks is dependant upon the distance travelled and the time spent away from home thus contact me with the details of where you are and I can then give you a quote. A ...
... Astronomical and Non Astro Societies, Clubs, Groups, WI's, Scouts/Guides etc In fact - any group that will have me :-) The cost of the talks is dependant upon the distance travelled and the time spent away from home thus contact me with the details of where you are and I can then give you a quote. A ...
The Existence of an Exoplanet Methodology Description of
... light recorded. Our data supports the notion that an exoplanet exists and orbits the star WASP-1. By the shape of our data, we can determine that the exoplanet orbits its host star on a direct viewing angle as seen from Earth. The entire transit, as recorded, took a little under four hours. From thi ...
... light recorded. Our data supports the notion that an exoplanet exists and orbits the star WASP-1. By the shape of our data, we can determine that the exoplanet orbits its host star on a direct viewing angle as seen from Earth. The entire transit, as recorded, took a little under four hours. From thi ...
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
... season at location X is winter. Because the Earth is tilted 23.5˚, the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun and receives indirect light. The indirect rays spread the energy over a larger area and don’t produce as much Return heat as direct rays would ...
... season at location X is winter. Because the Earth is tilted 23.5˚, the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun and receives indirect light. The indirect rays spread the energy over a larger area and don’t produce as much Return heat as direct rays would ...
Super-Earth
A super-Earth is an extrasolar planet with a mass higher than Earth's, but substantially below the mass of the Solar System's ice giants Uranus and Neptune, which are 15 and 17 Earth masses respectively. The term super-Earth refers only to the mass of the planet, and does not imply anything about the surface conditions or habitability. The alternative term ""gas dwarfs"" may be more accurate for those at the higher end of the mass scale, as suggested by MIT professor Sara Seager, although mini-Neptunes is more common.