Mercury

I believe that knowing the impermanence of Earth us humans have and extreme obligation to find and explore habitable worlds out side of Earth. Furthermore, impermanence is the decline or depletion of a mental or compounded object(s) during a continuous change in condition. Humans have not only destroyed our home planet we have depleted it to where will will not be about to sustain life in the future. Therefore, I feel that it is really important to find ways to improve our daily lifestyle habits…

There is several different theories of how the sun and the planets orbit in the universe. The geocentric models such as the Greek Geocentric model portrays the earth in the center of the universe. The heliocentric models such as the Tycho Heliocentric Model displays the sun being more the center of the universe. Greek Geocentric Model In many ancient civilizations such as the Ancient Greeks, the geocentric model was the predominant theory. An observation of this particular model was the stars,…

HOW THE SUN CAME TO BE By Coleton Frizzle Long ago before the Sun was a huge star, it was a normal day until the smallest star ever born. Its name was “Sun.” Everyday Sun tried to talk to the other stars, all they did was laugh and say. “Look it’s midget man! The smallest star in-the galaxy!” All Sun could do was bow down his head and say nothing. One day the Sun ran into Sundray, the biggest star of them all, and his guards, the planets. “Look who it is, its Sun the smallest of them all…

Jupiter and Mercury are both named after Roman gods. Jupiter is named after the king of the gods and Mercury is named after the messenger god. Jupiter is named after the king of the gods because it is the biggest planet. Mercury is named after the messenger god because it’s orbital period is so fast. Mercury and Jupiter’s names are for a reason. Mercury and Jupiter both fit very cohesively into solar system. For example, both planets have their own spot in the order from the sun. Mercury is…

Fig. 11: Residuals in the osculating orbital elements of Nereid for long time interval. The semi-major axis is given in km, eccentricity in radians and the rest of elements are in degree (Saad & Kinoshita 2001). Vashkov’yak and Teslenko (2010) in addition to the effects of the mother planet Neptune, they considered the influence of the attraction of the internal satellite Triton on the evolution of the orbit of the external satellite Nereid. The disturbing function of Triton is…

Ptolemy is a astronomer that made many observations of his time and they were accepted by many and he even developed the name “al-Magistri” or “The Greatest.” Ptolemy made observations of the universe, the article stating, “Ptolemy accepted Aristotle’s idea that the Sun and the planets revolve around a spherical Earth, a geocentric view. Ptolemy developed this idea through observation and in mathematical detail.” Even though in the early decades of Ptolemy’s life and the limitations of…

gas giants are mostly composed of gases, as assumed from its name. Terrestrial planets are also known for their solid surfaces made out of rocks or metals with a massive metal core. Only four known planets fit this description in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Interestingly enough, these four terrestrial planets are the planets closest to the sun. Although these four planets are in the category…

The rapid spread of mercury poisoning and the increase of whaling in Eastern Asia have a very evident positive correlation. Although the whaling of large whales has seen quite a dramatic drop since the boom in the 1950’s and early 1960’s right before the Marine Mammal Protection Act was enacted in 1972, there has been a significant increase in the amount of dolphins and small whales being killed and sold in Eastern Asian Countries. One sample of Dolphin meat can contain up to 10 times the…

Vaccines Cause Depression There is a popular misconception within the world of the internet regarding potential effects vaccination could have on mental health. These include, but are not limited to, claims such as it causes autism, weaker immune systems, and risky exposure to diseases. It is, however, important to realize that they all derived from misunderstanding of current data or based on outdated research. There exist many components to vaccines that have been blown-up out of proportion…

According to Mr. Donahue in the footnote for Chapter 7, “Mars and Mercury are the only planets whose orbits differ enough from circles for that difference to have an effect observable by Brahe’s instruments. Mercury is too near the sun to afford reliable observations of its entire orbit. Therefore, only the observations of Mars could have led Kepler to his ‘new astronomy.’” As soon as he discovered…