Planet

researched Pluto’s orbit, physical properties, and history to give us a broad understanding of what Pluto is like and to see if a mission to Pluto would be feasible and beneficial to NASA. We found that Pluto has a unique orbit compared to other planets — it is both extremely elliptical and sometimes crosses Neptune's orbit. Pluto is also incredibly small and cold. It contains ice on it’s surface and was only discovered about 100 years ago. Because of what I learned, I believe that It would be…

soon enough he realized that he had discovered the 7th planet at the time. At first, he wanted to name it Georgium Sidus which translates to “George’s star” after his king George the III. A fellow astronomer named Johann Bode helped Herschel crush the idea and instead the name “Uranus” (father of Saturn) was put in place to carry on the tradition of using names from ancient mythology. The discovery of Uranus was the reason that the next planet, Neptune, was discovered. As astronomers kept…

Space exploration has the opportunity to critically make a change in life here on earth. It has the potential to change how we live and how it can benefit even the most poor people on the planet. Improvements in medicine and energy production can result in the exploration of space and the colonization of other planets. “The Gemini and Apollo programs were child’s play in comparison to the threat of human life posed by long duration, deep space missions to such places as Mars” (Launius 124).…

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems P1) Over a twenty four hour period, the sun and planets can be seen moving from the east direction to the west direction. P2) The earth could not be moved by two motions like other planets, because there is no variance in the rising and setting of the heavens. P3) If the Earth moved, a dropped object would travel in the direction that the earth itself is moving and would be slowed down by said motion. Scientific experiments have exhibited that…

Over time we’ve changed our minds about how the Earth came to be. Through the study of our planet and solar system we’ve widened our understanding of where we began. We went from thinking the Earth was the center of the universe to knowing for a fact that we are just a small spec in a huge ocean of planets and stars. After watching the documentary presented in class, the major theme I noticed was how over time and after years of research our ideas around how things worked and how they…

Planet colonization is a theoretical belief that can save the human population when Earth has become too hazardous to live on. The rise of human pollution is a global crisis that causes many of the Earth’s resources to be unusable. The most compelling evidence is that there are over 7.5 billion people in the human population that need Earth’s resources. But the pollution the people have created on Earth endangers these resources. Aaron Friedman provided a public argument for his company, “Beyond…

The Gift of Interstellar Travel For centuries humans have lived on earth and growing expanding and claiming this giant space rock a home, but as time goes on planet earth is becoming not enough to sustain mankind’s way of living. Now with the technological advantages of the 21st centuries there is an answer to this problem and it is interstellar travel. With this one form of research mankind can thrive and exist beyond the stars. The earth simply cannot shelter the ever-growing human race,…

facilitation activity that was presented was called, Two Planets. Each team lives on their own planet and with this, they have a lot of their own resources, however, they need another resource, but this resource is only on the other team’s planet. Objective of this team building activity is to transfer all the people on one planet to the other planet and vice versa without falling into “outer space” or touching the area around the planets. Working as a team can truly make a difference in any…

that the Earth was the center of our Universe opposed to the Sun — referred to as a geocentric universe. The ancient Greeks has considered the Moon and the Sun as planets in addition to Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The days of the week were later named after the gods who were believed to have been represented by these “planets”. In the third century B.C.E., Aristarchus of Samos presented the first known model in which the Sun was at the centre of the universe and the Earth…

of space with smaller versions of itself all around -that can be made into shapes (constellations) when you play connect the dots with them-, surrounding the planet holding the resources to produce life along with a small moon circling the planet as it orbits around the big ball of fire that is made of Hydrogen and Helium. That little planet that can create life was populated and civilization has grown from there and the humans have come up with theories as to what their world looked like from…