August05 - Holt Planetarium
... in the context of its environment. This city-sized object is floating around in a vacuum. The only time it gets bothered is when the sun cooks it a little or when someone slams a 370 kg. wakeup call at it at 37,000 km. per hour! In other solar system news, a planet larger than Pluto has been discove ...
... in the context of its environment. This city-sized object is floating around in a vacuum. The only time it gets bothered is when the sun cooks it a little or when someone slams a 370 kg. wakeup call at it at 37,000 km. per hour! In other solar system news, a planet larger than Pluto has been discove ...
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... The Sun is made up of mostly hydrogen gas. It is 1.4 million km in diameter. Its temperature is about 15 million degrees Celsius. 600t of hydrogen are converted, by nuclear fusion, into helium per second. This is the energy released from the Sun. The Sun emits charged particles in all directions. Th ...
... The Sun is made up of mostly hydrogen gas. It is 1.4 million km in diameter. Its temperature is about 15 million degrees Celsius. 600t of hydrogen are converted, by nuclear fusion, into helium per second. This is the energy released from the Sun. The Sun emits charged particles in all directions. Th ...
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... The Jovian, or gaseous, planets have rocky cores surrounded by thick atmospheres. The radius is measured to the point at which the pressure drops to 1 atmosphere. ...
... The Jovian, or gaseous, planets have rocky cores surrounded by thick atmospheres. The radius is measured to the point at which the pressure drops to 1 atmosphere. ...
Solar System Cornell Notes - CE Williams Middle School
... Earth's atmosphere and reaches Earth's surface. asteroid - large pieces of rock with same composition of planets. Large What is the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter believed to be from unformed Kuiper Disk? planet. Life Beyond Earth * Space exploration began in 1957 with the Soviet launch of t ...
... Earth's atmosphere and reaches Earth's surface. asteroid - large pieces of rock with same composition of planets. Large What is the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter believed to be from unformed Kuiper Disk? planet. Life Beyond Earth * Space exploration began in 1957 with the Soviet launch of t ...
Guided Notes on Our Solar System
... pair of bodies in the universe attract each other with a force that is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the ...
... pair of bodies in the universe attract each other with a force that is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the ...
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... Use the Distance Table data sheet to mark the distances for the rest of the solar system. Be sure to start from the Sun for each measurement. Draw in and color each planet. Be sure to make the planets the correct relative size in relation to each other and the correct colors. Feel free to add in som ...
... Use the Distance Table data sheet to mark the distances for the rest of the solar system. Be sure to start from the Sun for each measurement. Draw in and color each planet. Be sure to make the planets the correct relative size in relation to each other and the correct colors. Feel free to add in som ...
Meter-Stick Solar System
... Exceeds: In this model, one inch equals one astronomical unit (AU) and one lightyear is a mile. Alpha Centuri is the closest star to the sun. It is about 26,395,632,000,000 miles away. How far would it have to be placed from the end of the ruler? (Hint: we have converted lightyears to miles before) ...
... Exceeds: In this model, one inch equals one astronomical unit (AU) and one lightyear is a mile. Alpha Centuri is the closest star to the sun. It is about 26,395,632,000,000 miles away. How far would it have to be placed from the end of the ruler? (Hint: we have converted lightyears to miles before) ...
Solar System Study Guide
... The solar system is a system of objects around the Sun A satellite is an object in space that circles another object. A mixture of ice, dust, and rock that circles the Sun is a comet. The order of the planets in our Solar System from closest to the Sun to furthest from the Sun is Mercury, Ve ...
... The solar system is a system of objects around the Sun A satellite is an object in space that circles another object. A mixture of ice, dust, and rock that circles the Sun is a comet. The order of the planets in our Solar System from closest to the Sun to furthest from the Sun is Mercury, Ve ...
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.