Theme 10 – Leftovers: Comets
... ice lumps – pristine comets that have never yet approached the sun also contains some larger Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO’s) the best-known of these is Pluto! ...
... ice lumps – pristine comets that have never yet approached the sun also contains some larger Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO’s) the best-known of these is Pluto! ...
Powerpoint to Solar System Scale Activity by Doreen Jarvis
... you vertically. In very small letters, write “Sun” on the very top edge of the strip and then write “Pluto” on the very bottom of the strip. ...
... you vertically. In very small letters, write “Sun” on the very top edge of the strip and then write “Pluto” on the very bottom of the strip. ...
Pluto
... of the official planets and now classified as a "dwarf planet“ In Roman mythology, Pluto (Greek: Hades) is the god of the underworld Pluto was discovered in 1930 by a fortunate ...
... of the official planets and now classified as a "dwarf planet“ In Roman mythology, Pluto (Greek: Hades) is the god of the underworld Pluto was discovered in 1930 by a fortunate ...
The Everest of Planetary Exploration: New Horizons Explores The
... • Pluto “saw” early cataclysmic events, including wholesale reorganization of the solar system • Pluto is an active world with (perhaps) a rock core and internal ocean • We will be surprised and thrilled! ...
... • Pluto “saw” early cataclysmic events, including wholesale reorganization of the solar system • Pluto is an active world with (perhaps) a rock core and internal ocean • We will be surprised and thrilled! ...
word
... Claims that the Solar System has a tenth planet are bolstered by the finding by a group lead by Bonn astrophysicists that this putative planet, announced last summer and tentatively named 2003 UB313, is bigger than Pluto. By measuring its thermal emission, the scientists were able to determine a dia ...
... Claims that the Solar System has a tenth planet are bolstered by the finding by a group lead by Bonn astrophysicists that this putative planet, announced last summer and tentatively named 2003 UB313, is bigger than Pluto. By measuring its thermal emission, the scientists were able to determine a dia ...
New "planet" is larger than Pluto
... Claims that the Solar System has a tenth planet are bolstered by the finding by a group lead by Bonn astrophysicists that this putative planet, announced last summer and tentatively named 2003 UB313, is bigger than Pluto. By measuring its thermal emission, the scientists were able to determine a dia ...
... Claims that the Solar System has a tenth planet are bolstered by the finding by a group lead by Bonn astrophysicists that this putative planet, announced last summer and tentatively named 2003 UB313, is bigger than Pluto. By measuring its thermal emission, the scientists were able to determine a dia ...
Exploration Strategy for the Outer Planets 2013
... some of the proposed science objectives for Europa and Titan/Enceladus focused mission concepts might be accomplished within the scope of New Frontiers. The $1B Mission Feasibility Study (www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/TitanEnceladusBillionDollarBox.pdf) validated the concept that flagship-class missions are ...
... some of the proposed science objectives for Europa and Titan/Enceladus focused mission concepts might be accomplished within the scope of New Frontiers. The $1B Mission Feasibility Study (www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/TitanEnceladusBillionDollarBox.pdf) validated the concept that flagship-class missions are ...
OPAG Steering Committee - Lunar and Planetary Institute
... system studies focused on the highest priority science objectives. The next Outer Planets Flagship Mission (after EJSM) may involve orbiting one or both of the saturnian satellites Titan and Enceladus. Other potential OP missions include atmospheric probes of the giant planets, in situ exploration a ...
... system studies focused on the highest priority science objectives. The next Outer Planets Flagship Mission (after EJSM) may involve orbiting one or both of the saturnian satellites Titan and Enceladus. Other potential OP missions include atmospheric probes of the giant planets, in situ exploration a ...
pluto and the dwarf planets quiz
... a) Haumea has two known moons. b) Haumea has no moons. c) A year on Haumea lasts for 307 ...
... a) Haumea has two known moons. b) Haumea has no moons. c) A year on Haumea lasts for 307 ...
jupiter facts for kids - National Astronomy Week 2014
... 9. How many space probes have been sent to Jupiter? Six have got there so far, although five of those went straight past without stopping. The first two probes to reach Jupiter were Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 which flew past in 1973 and 1974. These were followed by Voyagers 1 and 2, both in 1979. The ...
... 9. How many space probes have been sent to Jupiter? Six have got there so far, although five of those went straight past without stopping. The first two probes to reach Jupiter were Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 which flew past in 1973 and 1974. These were followed by Voyagers 1 and 2, both in 1979. The ...
Guide to the Sun Poster PDF
... The Sun is at the centre of the Solar System; all the other Solar System bodies revolve around it in their orbits. It is also a star: a typical, average dwarf G star. Ninety-nine per cent of the Solar System’s mass is accounted for by the Sun, and virtually all life on Earth is directly or indirectl ...
... The Sun is at the centre of the Solar System; all the other Solar System bodies revolve around it in their orbits. It is also a star: a typical, average dwarf G star. Ninety-nine per cent of the Solar System’s mass is accounted for by the Sun, and virtually all life on Earth is directly or indirectl ...
Solar System
... longer glow so bright, and is generally considered the "surface" of the sun. Everything that is below the photosphere gives off light. The photosphere is also the very top of the convective zone of the sun. It is on the photosphere that you see sunspots. While you can say that the atmosphere of the ...
... longer glow so bright, and is generally considered the "surface" of the sun. Everything that is below the photosphere gives off light. The photosphere is also the very top of the convective zone of the sun. It is on the photosphere that you see sunspots. While you can say that the atmosphere of the ...
ES_CH3_L1 - AFJROTC Ar/Ld 4
... of the Sun An atom’s nucleus is made up of protons, positively charged particles; and neutrons, particles with no electrical charge In nuclear fusion, two nuclei combine to form a larger nucleus. They “fuse.” Primary source of the Sun’s energy is a series of nuclear fusion reactions Chapter 3, Le ...
... of the Sun An atom’s nucleus is made up of protons, positively charged particles; and neutrons, particles with no electrical charge In nuclear fusion, two nuclei combine to form a larger nucleus. They “fuse.” Primary source of the Sun’s energy is a series of nuclear fusion reactions Chapter 3, Le ...
New Horizons found that Pluto`s upper
... journal Science. Taken together, the five studies paint the Pluto system in sharp detail, shedding new light on the dwarf planet's composition, geology and evolution over the past 4.6 billion years. A distant world coming into focus New Horizons becomes the first probe to explore Pluto in mid-2015. ...
... journal Science. Taken together, the five studies paint the Pluto system in sharp detail, shedding new light on the dwarf planet's composition, geology and evolution over the past 4.6 billion years. A distant world coming into focus New Horizons becomes the first probe to explore Pluto in mid-2015. ...
Chapter 4
... fact, the International Space Station flies under this zone). At the magnetopause, the solar wind speed has dropped from a few hundred kilometers per second to zero. The Earth’s magnetosphere is not symmetrical. It is shaped like a teardrop, with the long end pointing away from the Sun. There are a ...
... fact, the International Space Station flies under this zone). At the magnetopause, the solar wind speed has dropped from a few hundred kilometers per second to zero. The Earth’s magnetosphere is not symmetrical. It is shaped like a teardrop, with the long end pointing away from the Sun. There are a ...
National Science Standards: Grades 5-8
... 2. Using this scale (one meter equals 1 AU) how far do you think the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, would be from our Sun? (Proxima Centauri would be more than 45,000 km away. To give you an idea of the distance, at the equator the circumference of the Earth is 40,000 km). 3. How fast do you think ...
... 2. Using this scale (one meter equals 1 AU) how far do you think the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, would be from our Sun? (Proxima Centauri would be more than 45,000 km away. To give you an idea of the distance, at the equator the circumference of the Earth is 40,000 km). 3. How fast do you think ...
Goal: To understand what the Kuiper Belt is, and why it is
... periods of less than 300 years). • How? If an object is thrown from the Kuiper Belt, it first ends up in the region of the gas giants. These objects are known as Centaurs. • Then, interactions with Jupiter can send it closer to the sun where it becomes a comet. • There are BILLIONs of them we have n ...
... periods of less than 300 years). • How? If an object is thrown from the Kuiper Belt, it first ends up in the region of the gas giants. These objects are known as Centaurs. • Then, interactions with Jupiter can send it closer to the sun where it becomes a comet. • There are BILLIONs of them we have n ...
Colburn Earth Science Museum - Asheville Museum of Science
... to be the movement of ice, back and forth across hemispheres depending on the season. It is even believed that it snows on Pluto! These new findings shed light and present new evidence to the complexity of Pluto. Pluto is the largest body in a region of our solar system called the Kuiper belt. Simil ...
... to be the movement of ice, back and forth across hemispheres depending on the season. It is even believed that it snows on Pluto! These new findings shed light and present new evidence to the complexity of Pluto. Pluto is the largest body in a region of our solar system called the Kuiper belt. Simil ...
The New Solar System - Assets - Cambridge
... had hoped to enlist the expertise of a science that had spent literally thousands of years preoccupied with the planets. Yet on the very eve of planetary exploration astronomers showed little interest.” Tatarewicz recalls that NASA officials even “stood before groups of astronomers and implored them ...
... had hoped to enlist the expertise of a science that had spent literally thousands of years preoccupied with the planets. Yet on the very eve of planetary exploration astronomers showed little interest.” Tatarewicz recalls that NASA officials even “stood before groups of astronomers and implored them ...
Goal: To understand what the Kuiper Belt is, and why it is
... • We are seeing similar surface conditions on other large outer solar system objects which have moons. • So, there might be some small amount of tidal heating from its large moon Charon (Charon is half the diameter of Pluto). • This could create just enough heating to generate Nitrogen volcanoes! (d ...
... • We are seeing similar surface conditions on other large outer solar system objects which have moons. • So, there might be some small amount of tidal heating from its large moon Charon (Charon is half the diameter of Pluto). • This could create just enough heating to generate Nitrogen volcanoes! (d ...
ASTRO-114--Lecture 23-
... discussing the four inner planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. They may be the most important to us because they’re the nearest to us and we’re living on one of ‘em. But as far as the solar system is concerned, those four planets are minor. The large planets, the ones that have most of the mate ...
... discussing the four inner planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. They may be the most important to us because they’re the nearest to us and we’re living on one of ‘em. But as far as the solar system is concerned, those four planets are minor. The large planets, the ones that have most of the mate ...
Juno
... secrets to the fundamental processes and conditions that governed our solar system during its formation. As our primary example of a giant planet, Jupiter can also provide critical knowledge for understanding the planetary systems being discovered around other stars. Back to Table of Contents ...
... secrets to the fundamental processes and conditions that governed our solar system during its formation. As our primary example of a giant planet, Jupiter can also provide critical knowledge for understanding the planetary systems being discovered around other stars. Back to Table of Contents ...
By: Zach Morgan Tyler Calkins Ryan Murray Nick Wurtz Pluto`s
... January 23, 1930 was spotted by Clyde Tombaugh Because of its cold temperature (-360 degrees F) it was given the name of the Roman name for the god of the underworld In 1978, James Christy & Robert Harrington discovered Plutos only known moon Charon In August 2006, Pluto was no longer considered a p ...
... January 23, 1930 was spotted by Clyde Tombaugh Because of its cold temperature (-360 degrees F) it was given the name of the Roman name for the god of the underworld In 1978, James Christy & Robert Harrington discovered Plutos only known moon Charon In August 2006, Pluto was no longer considered a p ...
Pluto or Bust - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
... way out on the frigid fringes of the solar system. At 3 billion miles from Earth, never attracted close-up inspection from one of our robotic envoys, which have all the other planets and a host of moons, comets, and asteroids, to boot. Now, Pluto is about to enjoy its moment in the — albeit distant ...
... way out on the frigid fringes of the solar system. At 3 billion miles from Earth, never attracted close-up inspection from one of our robotic envoys, which have all the other planets and a host of moons, comets, and asteroids, to boot. Now, Pluto is about to enjoy its moment in the — albeit distant ...
Design your own Solar Cupcakes!
... A solar flare is a sudden huge explosion of energy on the Sun, caused by magnetic fields tangling, twisting, breaking, then quickly reconnecting. The flares send out dangerous X-rays into space. The image below shows the Sun in ultraviolet light, which our eyes cannot see. So scientists colored the ...
... A solar flare is a sudden huge explosion of energy on the Sun, caused by magnetic fields tangling, twisting, breaking, then quickly reconnecting. The flares send out dangerous X-rays into space. The image below shows the Sun in ultraviolet light, which our eyes cannot see. So scientists colored the ...
Interstellar probe
An interstellar probe is a space probe that has left—or is expected to leave—the Solar System and enter interstellar space, which is typically defined as the region beyond the heliopause. It also refers to probes capable of reaching other star systems (capable of interstellar travel within a galaxy).There are five interstellar probes: Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11 and New Horizons. As of 2015, Voyager 1 is the only probe to have actually reached interstellar space. The other four are on interstellar trajectories.The termination shock is the point in the heliosphere where the solar wind slows down to subsonic speed. Even though the termination shock happens as close as 80–100 AU, the maximum extent of the region in which the Sun's gravitational field is dominant (the Hill sphere) is thought to be at around 230,000 astronomical units (3.6 light-years). This point is close to the nearest known star system, Alpha Centauri, located 4.36 light years away. Although the probes will be under the influence of the Sun for a long time, their velocities far exceed Sun's escape velocity, so they will eventually leave forever.Interstellar space is thought to lie beyond a magnetic region that begins at about 122 AU, as detected by Voyager 1. The probe entered interstellar space in 2013.Interstellar Probe is also the name of a proposed NASA space probe intended to travel out 200 AU in 15 years, studied in 1999.