At first they considered Ceres and Vesta part of the planets we have today but then astronomers decided to just call them…
Most Holy Lord Pluto, King of the Underworld. I invoke you to curse (maledictionem) the success of the charioteer on the far right side, called Scorpus of the Green faction, who is twenty seven years old and has acquired many wins he does not deserve. May you bind his body, his mind, his hands, his eyes, his courage, his nerves, his victory, and his legs, so that he may not be able to properly steer his chariot at the Royal Games tomorrow. May you also bind the body, mind, and legs of his horses, so that they are not able to react in the Hippodrome when they are supposed to overtake any other team. If they must collide, let it be with any team of the Red, White or Green factions, but let it not be with any of the Blue.…
The discussion for this assessment is to explain, “Why was Pluto demoted to a dwarf planet?” While searching for another planet to explain irregularities in Neptune’s orbit, Pluto was discovered in 1930 by astronomers. At that time, the astronomers gave Pluto very little consideration due to its size, about the size of earth, and way too small to have any affect in altering Neptune’s orbit. As time passed, and technology improved, the size of Pluto was reexamined through improved satellite images, and found to be less than half of Earth’s diameter. Most recently, calculations established on images obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope, show that Pluto’s about one- fifth the diameter of earth and half that of Mercury (considered the runt of…
Mary Rojas-Bueno 11/15/2017 Astr101 Uranus There are many planets out there in the vast expanse of space. There are eight planets in our solar system, barring pluto which is a dwarf planet and not an actual planet. I will be discussing the seventh planet of our solar system, the lovely ice giant Uranus. The first ever sighting of Uranus was in 1680 by John Flamsteed, he categorized it as 34 Tauri, he thought it to be a star or comet.…
19. Pluto is no longer considered a planet, and is considered a dwarf planet because it has not “cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. This saying pretty much means that Pluto has gained control of the gravity around it. So astronomers made a name for these planets known as the dwarf planets, to show that it is a planet that continues to orbit the sun, but it hasn’t cleared the neighborhood. 20.…
The solar system of Trappist-1 is very much different from the one that we live in. For starters, the size of this host star, Trappist-1, is remarkably only one-tenth the size of the sun or just only twice the size of our planet Jupiter. Compared to our solar system, Trappist-1 only consists of three planets that orbits around it. However, the length of time these tiny planets take to orbit around Trappist-1…
Neptune is one of the four large planets in our Solar System known as Gas Giants. It is the eighth planet in order from the Sun, and was seen through a telescope for the first time on the 23rd of September 1846. Keeping to the traditional naming system used for all the previous planets, Neptune was given its name based on the Roman god of the sea, in reference to Greek and Roman mythology. General Information: Neptune has a vivid blue colouration to its layer of cloud cover. Higher absorption levels of red light caused by methane in its atmosphere is thought to be the cause of this bright blue tint.…
The scientist wanted to keep the tradition of naming the Planets after Roman Gods of the Underwold. Pluto was said to be the smallest Planet in the solar system and the ninth Planet from the sun, little after Pluto was recategorized From a planet to a Dwarf Planet, but still smaller than other Dwarf Planets meaning that It can not clear any objects out of its path. Dwarf Planet Pluto was discovered to have five moons Hydra, Kerberos, Nix, Styx, and Charon the largest moon.…
This moon has an orbital period of eighty-five hours! That is a crazy fast moon spinning around its planet. Europa is the smallest of the Galilean moons. Europa's surface and crust are made almost entirely of ice water. Observations made by the Galileo spacecraft show that Europa has a metallic core and a rocky mantle (The Galilean).…
This case study is a story of a young African American man named Orion who grew up not being able to embrace his racial identity. Throughout his life, he attended elite schools, filled primarily with white students, which did not allow him to develop his racial identity or pride in his race. Orion’s racial experiences at school also negatively affected his self-esteem and caused him to develop anxiety issues. The schools he attended did not allow him to be in a culture where his race was something that he could and should be proud of. As a result, Orion tried to suppress his race and any race related so that he would not be different from his white companions.…
Occasionally, once I opened “YouTube”, in recommended videos, I saw a video which name is “To Scale: The Solar System”. With the curiosity, I opened and watched the video. On a dry lakebed in Nevada, A team of LA filmmakers of people build a “true illustration of our place in the universe” -- the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits. At the beginning of the video, I was immediately attracted to it. It shows nothing else, but two sentences from James (James Irwin, Apollo 15).…
The sky tingled with the scent of the glorious Capitoline, and light shone through the colored windows of the building. While Rome lay beautiful with its gardens and blossoming architecture; the gods met to decide all that lay beneath the mortals. All of time had Jupiter awaited the birth of his younger brother, Pluto, but then a startling prophecy shook the walls of his palace. Pluto was a scripture interlaced with the somberness of the forgotten; he had been born crying in the womb of Gaea. He never interacted with any of the other gods, and only Jupiter loved him dearly.…
"The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. "-Brainy Quote. There are a hundred stars in the sky on a clear night. There are also hundred more when looking through a telescope.…
Our Sun: A Trip to the Planetarium On September 19, 2015 I arrived at the Thomas Planetarium of the Anchorage Museum. The place was almost empty, it was just me, another female student who I found was there for the same class assignment as me and the woman who was responsible for managing the projector and answering our questions. The name of the presentation was “Sunstruck” and it was meant to educate the public on the power of the sun. I had been at that planetarium before, but I decided to go for this assignment because I have always been curious about the sun, astronomy and places that are not too demanding of social skills.…
Scientists believe that at one time Venus had a moon. They believe that it was “slammed” early, and a piece of it was possibly a moon that drifted away. However, Venus does interact with our moon. Venus appears to be nearby our moon in the night sky and is the brightest object in the night sky besides our moon. It’s so bright that it’s known as the “Morning Star” and “Evening Star”, because it can be seen at night and occasionally during the day.…