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Exoplanet Essay 1.0 Introduction An extrasolar planet also known as exoplanet is any planet that orbits a star not within our solar system. The first real discovery of an exoplanet was made in 1995 by the Swiss team of Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of Geneva. The planet that they discovered was at least half the mass of Jupiter and smaller in size. NASA has confirmed 1746 exoplanets exist and there is surely more to be discovered. The Kepler mission was too find and statistically characterizes…

Thesis: Galileo's works mainly contributed to the new perspective of the universe and his work and ideas contributed to humanity. These new perspectives and ideas all started with Copernicus and many other revolutionists expanded on his ideas and theories. First paragraph: The start of the scientific revolution began with Nicolaus Copernicus. Copernicus created chaos with his books and theories. He believed in the heliocentric view of the universe, which was that the earth revolves around the…

there is no gravity, so the objects that fall, will fall differently. For example, if a feather and a bowling ball were in a vacuum, both objects will fall at the same rate due to no air. The astronauts experience sensations of weightlessness while in orbit in the space station. The term “zero gravity” is misleading because people will think there is no gravity in space, but there can be a small amount of gravity found on different places in outer space,…

Introduction to the Pluto system science special issue, published by Elsevier Inc. in 2015, is considered as an academic journal. The first paragraph notice the Pluto in detail. The Pluto orbit in an average 39.44 AU from the Sun and have a high eccentricity, have a radius of 1137km which is much smaller than the Moon. For the article I’m evaluating, it indicate that the Pluto’s aphelion is about 4.6 billion miles (50.13 AU). The diameter…

electrons could only orbit the nucleus in specific orbits or shells with a fixed radius. The electrons could only be within a radius based on the r(1)= 0.529 multiplied by 10^-10 m and a electron could not exist between the shells. Mathematically the allowed values of the atomic radius could be written as r (n)=n^2 times r(1), where n is a positive integer, and r(1) is the Bohr radius, which is the smallest allowed radius for a hydrogen atom. With the electrons in a circular, quantized orbits…

taught me something. Works Cited Blitz, Matt. "The True Story Of 'Hidden Figures' And The Women Who Crunched The Numbers For NASA". Popular Mechanics. N.p., 2017. Web. 15 Apr. 2017. Day, Dwayne A. "The Space Review: Apocrypha Now: No Go For Seven Orbits". Thespacereview.com. N.p., 2017. Web. 15 Apr. 2017. Holtzclaw, Mike. "Hollywood Spotlight Hits…

consisted of a cosmic-ray detection package, temperature sensors, and a micrometeorite detector “(Jet Propulsion Laboratory).” Although it’s primary instrument was the cosmic-ray detector, which revealed what seemed to be fewer cosmic rays in its orbit. Van Allen, then theorized that the: “instrument may have been saturated by very strong radiation from a belt of charged particles trapped in space by Earth's magnetic field.” “(NASA).” Two months, later this was confirmed by another U.S.…

though one could ever get the credit for how Venus was ever discovered,after researching several website I found that: Jeremiah Horrock was an English astronomer who was the first to demonstrate that the moon moved around the Earth in a orbit. In…

planet in the Solar System. Uranus is visible with a naked eye and appears to be a faint star under dark sky conditions. Orbit distance is 2,870,658,186 km and Orbit period is 30,687.15 Earth days. Uranus takes 84 Earth days to orbit the Sun, its axis is at 98 degrees, this means that the north and south poles of Uranus lie near the equator of earth. During parts of its orbit one or other of the poles direct face the sun which means the planets get around 42 years of direct sunlight followed by…

Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and immediately after creating the Mercury program that had the goal to put a human into orbit. The Soviets made good use of their lead, though, and in April, 1961, they put the first person (Yuri Alekseyevich) into orbit aboard Vostok 1. NASA was closer to the Soviets this time and one month later Friendship 7 was put into orbit with John Glenn aboard.…