Orbital

This moon has an orbital period of eighty-five hours! That is a crazy fast moon spinning around its planet. Europa is the smallest of the Galilean moons. Europa's surface and crust are made almost entirely of ice water. Observations made by the Galileo spacecraft show that…

temperatures at which liquid water could exist. In order to assess the habitability of a planet there are several requirements that need to be met for example, the planet parameters which include mass and radius, the planetary atmospheric composition, orbital properties, and stellar parameters. Carabrea states that, “we have a relatively large uncertainty in the stellar parameters.” there is little information on the planets mass, radius and effective temperature. Carabra also explains that…

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…

index indicated that specimen #301 had a very round-headed and was narrow-noosed. In the same way, specimen #301 presented the following characteristics: small overall skull size, rounded forehead shape, less prominent supraorbital ridge, rounded orbital shape, less pronounced nuchal area and occipital protuberance, and rounded chin shape. Most of the previous characteristics, excluding the mastoid process size, indicate that specimen #301 was a female. Even though, there is only one…

Sustainability in Space One may think that Earth’s orbit has an unlimited amount of space to hold whatever celestial bodies or satellites it may encounter, but like Earth’s population, there are always limits on space. NASA states that there are over 21,000 objects in Earth’s orbit today that can be considered debris over ten centimeters (Stansbery). Scientists worry about these objects colliding with one another. Collision could cause a major snowball effect that could end up damaging an…

procedures taking often as little as ten minutes. Freeman even received a Nobel Prize for his procedure (Phillips). The procedure started with the administer of up to three electric shocks to the patient. An icepick was then inserted through the trans orbital socket and into the brain. The ice pick was then moved around the damage the connections between the frontal lobe and the rest of the brain. This procedure was often used for the treatment schizophrenics as it was believed the severing…

killers lack material in proportion to an average human’s part of the brain called the orbital cortex.(NPR, 2010) That means that the orbital cortex plays a role in how we think, and based off of many theories of evolution, our brains evolved from out brain stem outward, thus, there is some type of moral code embedded into our brains from generations past. To follow up my point, “ according to Fallon” the orbital cortex puts a brake on another part of the brain called the amygdala, which 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…

Man Isn’t Center of the Universe Anymore? Before the sixteenth century, the common knowledge of astronomy was based off the Pythagoras, Aristotle, and the Ptolemaic model. They said the Earth was the center of the universe and everything, including the sun, planets, and the heavenly spheres rotated about its center. Aristotle established the principle that there were only seven planets considered wandering stars: Earth, moon, sun, Venus, Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter. Anything besides these stars…

Katherine C.G. Johnson was born August 26, 1918 in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia to Joshua Coleman, a blacksmith and farmer, and Joylette Coleman, a teacher, Katherine Johnson experienced childhood in a family unit that esteemed the significance of instruction. The Coleman’s set elevated requirement for their four offspring and did everything they could to support their most youthful little girl's conspicuous ability for math. As there was no Negro secondary school in White Sulfur…