Jupiter

Angular velocity, with the addition of a product’s moment of inertia is what creates an angular momentum quantity (Bi 2014). Moving objects keep a constant velocity, however, if acted on by outside forces this would not occur. Say a moving object like, the planet Saturn keeps this constant speed, it thus keeps a constant momentum, since the system is conserved. This conserved system of the planet Saturn would be referred to as angular momentum, since Saturn rotates about an axis. Saturn is also…

naked eye. Galilei’s third discovery concludes that Jupiter has four moons because the four masses that orbit around the planet do not twinkle and have nearly equal magnitudes. He describes how the moons are “wandering around Jupiter like the moon around the Earth while all together with Jupiter traverse a great circle around the sun in the space of 12 years” (86-87). This explains how they are moons rather than stars because they orbit around Jupiter rather than being…

Jupiter is 142,984 kilometers where as Saturn is 120,536 kilometers. With Saturn being the second largest planet it still is not big enough to withstand fusion that is needed to power up a star. Saturn is also a gas planet just like Jupiter. It is mostly made of the two basic gases which are helium and hydrogen but its ice particles contain methane, water, and ammonia…

surrounding a planet or other material body, that is held in place by the gravity of that body. An atmosphere is more likely to be retained if its gravity is high and the atmosphere 's temperature is low”. Spectroscopy (along with atmospheric probes; Jupiter for example) has determined the Jovian planets contain hydrogen, helium, methane, ammonia, and water gas in their thick…

Stage One - The Chicxulub Impactor Origin Theory and how Asteroids enter the Earth's Atmosphere. Origin Theory The Chicxulub Impactor is an asteroid whose origin is unknown. A theory orchestrated by David Nesvorný, William F. Bottke and David Vokrouhlický however suggests that it is part of the Baptistina family of asteroids which was the result of a collision in the Asteroid Belt 160 million years ago (2). This theory is supported by the evidence of carbonaceous material that is present in…

But in 1990 researchers say that these comets looked odd and the mass quantities of oddball comets led them to believe a Planet as big as Jupiter and they also found a faint glow of a planet using many telescopes in Chile Argentina. The plot thickens when they find Sedna’s strange long orbit may have pulled it into a more or so distant orbit this was discovered by Mike Brown 2003. In 2014 Mike…

During the Scientific Revolution, new discoveries in astronomy sparked the interest of scientists leading to further development to future ideas. Before the 1500s, civilization had concluded that the theory of a geocentric system, originally proposed by Claudius Ptolemy in 140 AD, was accurate. The Geocentric Theory is the belief that Earth is the center of the Universe and everything revolves around it (chuckfarlieAUS). Although in the 16th and 17th century, there was a rapid succession of new…

Aristotle published studies based on geocentrism and believed that Earth was stationary at the centre of the solar system, and stars and planets rotated around the Earth on concentric spheres arranged in the order: Moon, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the fixed stars were located on the celestial sphere aligned with the north and south pole of Earth. According to the Aristotelian system, the uniform circular motion of bodies around the Earth can be explained by the transparent…

the planet’s atmosphere. The cause remains uncertain. As Saturn is the sixth planet, it is said to be cold. It is about 886,700,000 miles from the sun, the main source of heat in our solar system. Saturn is also the second largest planet, second to Jupiter. Saturn is so big it’s the equivalent of 764 earths! It takes 29 Earth years for Saturn to orbit the sun. Saturn is a tannish-beige color. The websites used for this report are: NASA National…

it became apart of our planet's orbit. Moons are captured by their planets by their rings and pull of the orbit of the planet. Jupiter has 60 captured moons all with different molecular material than the other. Earth's moon was discovered to have matched a sample of earth's soil indicating the making of the moon involved earth rather than a capturing of this mass as jupiter…