Should Pluto be a dwarf planet or a planet? There has been lots of debate on whether it should be a dwarf planet or a planet. Their is not a big difference between the dwarf planets and the planets. The only difference between the two is that a dwarf planet has an orbit around it which is not cleared out and the orbit around a planet is cleared out. Pluto has been a dwarf planet since 2006.…
“Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto” by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was painted in 1597 ,with oils on a plaster canvas. The painting show three men, in a dark night sky around the moon. The main background of the painting is a night sky with clouds in the background and a large moon in the center of the painting. The foreground of the painting is three men in the sky. The man at the top of the painting is nude with a white robe around him.…
On March 13, 1781, William Herschel was looking at the sky through one of his telescopes that he had built himself, looking for anything interesting, when he noticed something that wasn’t a star and he thought it was a comet. A year later astronomer A.J. Lexell calculated its path and discovered that it was actually a planet. Herschel wanted to name it after the king, but other astronomers wanted to name it after Herschel, which it was for a time until they changed it to Uranus after the sky-god of Greek mythology. Astronomers made predictions about the movement of Uranus, but after a few years, they saw that it wasn’t moving in the exact way that they thought it would. The way planets move is affected by the pull of other planets.…
As an ice giant, uranus is made up of more ice than gas. Uranus has a much different composition than saturn or jupiter even though they are all gas giants. Jupiter and Saturn are mostly composed of hydrogen and helium, while uranus is composed of ices like water, ammonia and methane. Astronomers think that between 9.3 and 13.5 earth masses of Uranus mass is made up of these ices. Hydrogen and Helium only account for about 0.5 to 1.5 earth masses(Cain).…
Raynel Grullon Mr. Beehler Earth and Space, Period:2 9/29/17 Uranus Uranus, also referred as an “Ice Giant,” is one of the planets with the most unique characteristics and qualities. It was discovered by an astronomer in 1781 called William Herschel with the help of a telescope and was recognized and accepted as a planet by Johann Elert Bode. According to solarsystem.nasa.gov, Uranus was named after the Greek god of the sky.” Being the seventh planet from the sun where its cold and windy and is four times as wide as earth having a radius of 15,759.2 miles. This planet also has a very unique tilt of 97.77 degrees, making it seem to rotate on its side while orbiting around the sun.…
Scientists have found that Neptune and Uranus are more likely to be ice giants rather than gas giants, making them different to Saturn and Jupiter. Due to their younger age, it is thought that they were unable to draw on the vast hydrogen…
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.…
In 1906 Percival Lowell, who was a wealthy Bostonian who founded Lowell Observatory, started a search for a ninth planet in our solar system which he called planet X. But as Percival was looking for it he died in 1916 with no prevail, he had gotten pictures but planet X was very faint in the pictures, and so after 10 years the search for the planet began again but this time a 23 year old astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh who proved the existence of the mysterious planet in 1930; the planet was named Pluto after discovery. Pluto was called the smallest planet in our solar system and the ninth planet from the star, and most of it is made up of frozen nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide and probably has a small core with some metals. It got it’s name from an eleven year old girl named Venetia Burney who suggested naming it after the Roman god of death because it was most likely beyond freezing there that far away from the sun. Pluto also has five moons, Kerberos, Styx, Nix, Hydra, and Charon which is about half the size of Pluto’s. The small planet is only 1,400 miles wide making it slightly smaller than Earth’s moon.…
Is the coastal eroding? Yes, along with the power of the waves and wind the coast is eroding. The coast is not only eroding because of the water and wind, it’s also eroding because of human activity. The one activity that we do causing erosion is dredging; it’s when we get shipped to us.…
Scientists have found that Neptune and Uranus are more likely to be ice giants rather than gas giants, making them different to Saturn and…
Combined, the 69 moons of various composition orbit the planet. The most interesting of the moons are the first four moons discovered beyond Earth, the Galilean Moons. Jupiter’s four largest moons are called the Galilean moons named after Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei who first observed them in 1610. The moons are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto and their names come from the lovers of Zeus. Ganymede, Io, and Europa are all in orbital resonance with Jupiter.…
Julia Piccolino Mr. Corso 15 January 2018 Jupiter Research Paper Our solar system is made up of 8 planets that vary from each other greatly. Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun, is the closest gas giant in orbit. It is made entirely of gases, and has no surface. Jupiter has the most moons out of any of the planets, and is also the largest planet in the solar system.…
Planet Jupiter, the largest of the gas planets, reigns superiority in the solar system. It is the fifth planet from the sun and features unique properties that are unlike Earth and other planets. Jupiter is one of the five planets including; Mars, Saturn, Venus, and Mercury, that can be seen with a naked eye. Its massive size makes it hard to miss in the gleaming night sky. Due to their visibility, the planets have been observed by many cultures and were given various names.…
Why would you choose Enceladus as your ideal place for living in? Encela-dus is the sixth - largest moon of Saturn, but is smaller than the Moon, or even the British Isles. However, it is more than enough. Warmth, Food and an Atmos-phere is naturally provided and was sus-tained for centuries. It is mostly covered by fresh, clean ice, reflecting almost all the sunlight that strikes it.…
Neptune's average day last up to 16 hours six minutes and thirty-six seconds because Neptune isn't a solid body some parts of it were that much faster or slower than others for example the equator takes 18 hours to orbit the whole planet average is 16.1 hours and yet again the polar regions beat the average by 4 hours at these regions the orbit is just 12 hours the average year on Neptune take 60198 days the atmosphere of Neptune contains gas gaseous hydrogen helium methane ethane that's fine ammonia and water vapor the methane absorbs red light giving the planet it's blue color the atmospheric pressure of a liquid surface is a hundred thousand times greater than it is on Earth. Neptune has the wildest and strongest weather in the solar system its atmosphere has dark spots which can come and go and it is the windiest planet in the solar system average temperatures equal -112 degrees Celsius because it's so far away from the sun doesn't receive as much solar energy many people discovered Neptune and all of them found it in different ways mathematician Alex Brevard astronomers John couch from Britain and her band Live we are from France and lastly astronomer Observer Zone Godfrey GAO German they all managed to predict and find Neptune the planet was named after the Roman God of oceans mostly because it's blue color we are already being able to discover parts of Neptune through the Voyager…