Planetary system

I could picture the Earth in my head. The blues of water, greens of vegetation, and whites of clouds, all the essentials of life swirling together as if left by brush strokes. I had been seeing it since my first earth science class in elementary school, glaring out at me from textbooks as if demanding an answer. How could you do this? The question reverberated in my head, the dull ache of cognitive dissonance setting in as I peered out the window. I didn’t have an answer. None of us did. That’s why we’re here, I thought to myself, because we couldn’t find an answer. Unable to bear the sight, I pulled my eyes away from the window and let my head loll back against the cool pleather of my seat, hoping that I might just be granted a brief reprieve from the guilt that I’d been feeling since the launch date had been announced. The announcement had been met with feverish celebration. Effervescent excitement bubbled up all over the air waves, dominating the news outlets for months. They had finally done it; they had finally found another mosaic of life just like the one I could picture so clearly on the pages of my textbook-- they had found us another home. Quickly dubbed New Earth by the talking heads, the planet was comparable to our own in its distance from its star and came complete with water, vegetation, and what the scientists called a “workable” atmosphere. I couldn’t help but feel resentment towards all those that filled the street, chanting jubilant hymns and saying…

Colonies on Other Planets Isaiah Dokus 1/12/2017 The Earth is deteriorating, and growing faster by the day. We are using up our natural resources faster than I can type this sentence. Eventually, we may need to move. Not to another oil drilling site, but to a completely different planet. Our knowledge of space travel and other technologies is quickly progressing. So we may have a chance on a new world. Other “habitable” planets have been found. The two most discussed are called KOI 326.01…

Each planet went through eight months without sunlight. Over 99.99% of all native life perished. The Hargons then introduced the flora they needed to adjust the atmosphere to fit their needs. The planets have been renamed Hargon801, Hargon802 and Hargon803.” “That’s a lot of military hardware. Do the Hargons understand diplomacy?” “To a certain extent. We have educated their diplomats and received good success in settling trade issues. But organized warfare was necessary for biological…

(CITE) Kepler’s Second Law, The Law of Areas is defined as showing why planets and other objects in our solar system move faster when they are closer to the sun. (CITE) Kepler’s Third Law, The Law of Periods, means “that if we square the time it takes a planet to complete one orbit around the sun, you can find it’s proportional to the plant’s distance from the sun cubed.” So, P^2=a^3 is also the equation that would be used to find the distance from a planets to its host star. Astronomers still…

Sarang Patel Mrs. Kopko Day of the Dead: Issac Newton Sir Isaac Newton was an English mathematician, cosmologist, scholar and physicist (depicted in his own day as a "characteristic savant") who is generally perceived as a standout amongst the most powerful researchers ever and a key figure in the logical upheaval. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"), first distributed in 1687, established the frameworks of traditional…

This was thought of by Nicolaus Copernicus. During those times Galileo, Johannes Kepler, Nicolaus Copernicus and René Descartes built the foundation of a new science. Who were these scientists? Well, Galileo was the scientist who published “The Operations of the Geometrical and Military Compass,” “The Starry Messenger,” “Discourse on Bodies in Water” and “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems,” Johannes Kepler was an astronomer who discovered the laws of planetary motion, Nicolaus…

circular motion, and took it for granted, when he reintroduces the heliocentric model, an ancient system like the geocentric model, stems from the Greek time. However, by unifying the universe by means of a great circle of the orbit of the earth, Copernicus revolutionized how the universe is conceived for a generation of astronomers, including Kepler himself. Despite the prevailing belief in the perfect motions of the planets, the actual observed phenomenon of the planets themselves by no means…

In the beginnings of the creation of a model of our planetary system, Greek philosopher Aristotle stated that Earth could be found at the center of the universe, giving birth to an idea called "geocentrism" around 300 B.C. This belief consisted of planets orbiting Earth in perfectly circular paths called "epicycles". This worked for a while, but as more and more observations were done, the model started to fall apart, with a multitude of additional corrections changing the model until it was no…

and directed to two contrary parts.” (p. 83) Three hundred and thirty years later, Newton’s laws continue to explain key concepts and revolutionize the ways in which we view objects in motion. II. The History of Scientific Understandings of Motion Sir Isaac Newton himself is attributed with the saying, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” (Koyré, 1952, p. 315) The study of motion can be traced to approximately 300 B.C. to the greek philosopher, Aristotle.…

315) Indeed the study of motion goes all the way back to Aristotle at approximately 300 B.C. His definition of motion is quite confusing to say the least, “Motion is the actuality of what potentially is.” (Kosman, 1969, p. 40) Although Aristotle thought long and hard specifically about planetary motion, he never answered the question of whether celestial bodies moved, and if so, by what force. Abu ‘Ali Ibn Sina, a Muslim scholar in 1000 AD, confirmed Aristotle’s suspicions by saying, “Nobody…