Dwarf planet

others would follow and build their solutions based on his conclusions. Johannes Kepler, a Lutheran pater, fell into the study of astronomy. A believer of the heliocentric model of Copernicus, discovered the solution was the ellipse. The orbits of the planets around the Sun are ellipses with the Sun at its focus. He recognized the elliptical shape of the orbits,…

Paragraph 2: What are sun and moon dogs? A moon dog is a relatively rare bright circular spot on a lunar halo caused by the refraction of moonlight. A sundog is also known as mock suns or “parhelia”, are a pair of brightly colored spots, one on either side of the sun. Sun dogs form as sunlight is refracted by hexagonal- plate like ice crystals with diameters larger than 30 micrometer and their flat faces horizontally oriented. By day, with the sun, one of these phenomena (fa-nom-a-nin) is called…

That’s when he noticed an object that moved in front of the star background over time, clearly demonstrating it was closer to us than the distant stars. At first he thought he had found a comet, but later realized this object was a new planet in orbit around our sun – the first discovered since ancient times” (Earthsky 2015). It turned out that astronomers had actually observed Uranus as far back as 1960, but had miscategorized it as a star. They did not look at Uranus in relation to other…

the world. This means Primeval nebula means a cloud of gas and dust in outer space a long time ago. It was how people think the galaxy was created. This is saying that the universe was always there. The galaxy was created. Then all the stars and planets were created. They were all made from small clouds of dust and gas in space. The nebular hypothesis is the most widely used theory for the formation of the Solar System. It suggests that the Solar System was formed of nebulous material. It…

Mars, a beautiful planet far away from Earth. People on Earth are planning to live on it, to explore new things and find ways to survive, but is it really worth it? Going to Mars is bongers and unsafe. It is dangerous and most unlikely that people will not live on Mars until few hundred years later. By then we might have already come to extinction. The colonist have made some progress but did they make enough for the years to come? I mean the colonist already found froze toxic water but they…

Neil deGrasse Tyson is an active Astrophysicist coming out of New York City where he Graduated from Bronx High School Of Science and went on to Achieve his PhD in Astrophysics from Columbia University and his BA at Harvard. Tyson later was chosen by George W. Bush twice, once in 2001 to join a twelve-member commission where he studied the Future of the US Aerospace industry and second, in 2002 to join a nine-member commission that focused on the implementation of the United States Space…

When we first get there it is extremely cold it’s around -87 degrees. I also notice almost instantly is that there is two moons. Also I notice that the day is a little bit longer than on Earth. Also the sun looks pretty far away too. And the planet is overall smaller. It is also very broad and plain. I see brownish terrain and brown rocks. The landform is very rough, including sandy dunes, to giant boulders. One thing I will need to bring is a space suit because of the atmosphere in Mars. I will…

The excerpt Crash Course (Nancy Honovich) describes what asteroids are and everything about them to how often they occur and how close they have to be to be too close for comfort. At the beginning of the story, it tells about what asteroids are and their history. They even said that a comet called the Shoemaker-Levy 9 sped towards Jupiter at sixty kilometers a second. That is really fast! It also told about how sixty-five million years ago, it is thought that one measly asteroid could have…

The Inner Jovian Moons For the moon project I recieved the Inner Jovian moons. The Inner Jovian Moons are four different moons of Jupiter. The names of these moons are Adrastea, Metis, Amalthea, and Thebe. Each of these moons get their names from Greek Mythology. They Were all discovered by different people. As it goes for research I found that all of these moons have very little to be known about them. They do not know the rotational period of any of these moons. A lot of the pictures at are…

For years the Catholic Church has viewed the universe as a place of stars and heavenly perfection. Geocentricity has been acknowledged, as the universe revolves around the Earth. Our opinions of a place beyond our world has been influenced by the theories of ancient writers such as Ptolemy and Aristotle, and our views shan’t be altered! This Aristotelian view of the universe has been widely accepted by both scientists and theologians, though, Galileo Galilei’s observations in Siderius Nuncius,…