Planetary system

the solar system. Processed meteorites are fragments of larger asteroids that underwent differentiation. 8. The Kuiper Belt is a ring of comets that orbit the Sun beyond the orbit of Neptune. The Oort cloud is located in the the outer solar system and the comets orbit around the Sun.These were developed from planetesimals that were thrown outward after their formation between the Jovian planets. However the Kuiper Belt comets that formed still remain in the outer regions of the planetary realm.…

like the other chip just a little unrelated to the other planets.Pluto is a planet because it complies with two requirements to be a planet.Pluto orbits around the sun,and Pluto also spherical.Pluto is dwarf planet like the others in the our solar system. To be a planet you have to orbit around the sun.Pluto orbits around the sun like the other planets.Pluto's orbit is inclined at 17-degrees.It takes pluto 248 years to fully orbit around the sun.Because the orbit of Pluto is so wide, it…

Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer, mathematician, translator, artist, and physicist. Nicolaus Copernicus is the first astronomer to discover that earth and the other planets within the solar system all revolve around the sun. As before the discovery, astronomers believed that earth was the center of the solar system and everyone revolved around it. Therefore, based on Nicolaus Copernicus discovery, it has contributed to astronomical history Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer,…

Occasionally, once I opened “YouTube”, in recommended videos, I saw a video which name is “To Scale: The Solar System”. With the curiosity, I opened and watched the video. On a dry lakebed in Nevada, A team of LA filmmakers of people build a “true illustration of our place in the universe” -- the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits. At the beginning of the video, I was immediately attracted to it. It shows nothing else, but two sentences from James (James Irwin,…

with respective latitude, longitude and brilliance of each. Composed 500 years after the death of Aristotle, the Almagest would go on to serve as the foremost source for the planetary studies for the next 14 centuries (Hoskin…

as a planet because it interferes in Neptune’s orbit; again, this can be controversial among different people. I believe that the reason behind all the controversy about Pluto’s planetary status is because Pluto was first classified as a planet for many years. When scientists changed their thoughts about Pluto’s planetary status and instead classified it as a dwarf planet people got angry about the…

AST 1002 Horizons in Astronomy Unit Two Book Assignment 1. Astropedia 5.4: From the moon, the Earth would appear to have a full moon since it would all be illuminated. The first quarter is the highest point, which is at 6:00 PM. The full moon will rise at 6:00 PM and reaches it highest point at 12:00 AM, midnight. 2. Astropedia 5.6: During a new or a full moon, the gravitational pull that the moon has on the earth that causes the tides is a bit stronger. The gravitational pull is what…

For our lab presentations, Natalie Lutz and I chose to research other planetary systems. We knew this was a topic that would lightly be discussed in class and therefore decided we could educate our peers further on the topic. It offered a look into the different types of ways planetary systems are discovered and the different ones that have already been discovered. Extrasolar planets are defined as planets rotating around other stars- or remnants of stars. This is comparable to our planet…

but it hasn’t cleared the neighborhood. 20. When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere, they disintegrate before they hit the ground. When a meteoroid does hit Earth’s surface, those are called meteorites. 21. The Nebular theory states that the solar system was a rotating disk of gas and dust. As the speed started to increase, the middle of the disk began to flatten. And as the middle started…

has combined over the years to advance our pursuit the discovery of new astronomical findings. One such ongoing effort is the Voyager Program. Two space probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, were launched in the late 1970s to collect data about our solar system. Voyager 2 was launched from the Kennedy Space Center on August 20, 1977. Voyager 1 was also launched from the Kennedy Space Center 15 days after Voyager 2 on September 5, 1977. The reason for the seemingly backwards numbering is that they…