Solar System

on earth, will help us predict the effects that different radiations will have on objects in outer space. This will help us learn more about matter in our universe and help us make educated guesses on why currently unexplainable things in the Solar System happen. In specification, using infrared, visible, and X-rays waves for experimentation on earth, will tell us discern the temperature and help us see through thick clouds of dust and particles on the dwarf planet, Pluto. Pluto gives off many…

Slide 1 The Formation of the Solar System Since time immemorial, scientists have worked and conducted numerous researches to find out how the universe came into being. Up to today, there is no single model that can be singled out to explain exactly how the universe formed. However, scientists have agreed on a model that attempts to explain how the universe was formed. Notably, this is termed as the most popular model. The latter is commonly known as the nebular theory hypothesis. Slide 2…

The Hunt for Planet X Ever since the proposition of a ninth planet within our solar system by Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo in 2014 (Hunt 1) the hunt has been on for the elusive object. The use of extreme Kuiper Belt objects (eKBOs) which are objects believed to not be significantly influenced by Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, contributed to the idea of another object in the solar system influencing them (Malhotra 1). The study of the eKBOs orbit around our sun lead to the…

This astronomical study will define the development of Pluto from being a planet to a “dwarf planet” in the solar system. Pluto is a planet with about 30 to 49 astronomical units away from the sun, and it takes about 5 hours for the light of sun to reach its surface. Pluto also has an orbit of 248 years, which makes the longest orbital time period for a planetary object in the solar system. The mass of Pluto is 1.303±0.003)×1022 kg and the radius of the planet is 0.1863 Earths. The small size of…

is: Astronomy for Kids. The URL for the site is: http://www.kidsastronomy.com/solar_system.htm. The user of this site would be: the students. On this site the student will be able to find information about the sun or any of the planets in our solar system. Another aspect of the site is that students can learn about the different moons of the planets. This site also contains interesting information about Saturn’s rings. Finally, the students will be able to learn about asteroids, comets, and…

in 1930 by Clyde W. Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona. For a long period of time it was considered that should be the ninth planet in the Solar System, which was called as Planet X. After a year of hard work the young astronomer Tombaug, announced that he found a small dot, which was moving – Pluto. The Solar System now had 9 planets. 2.Observation of distance objects Scientists were not sure about the mass of Pluto, until the largest moon of the planet – Charon was…

The Jupiter Adventures At long last the Jupiter Spacecraft Voyager has finished its exploration of the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter. The Galileo spacecraft was launched on October 19, 1989. It has been through a lot to get to the Jovian system. Even though it had malfunctions in mechanical problems the space probe still managed to survive and keep going on. Very little is known about the outside world, (space) but the discoveries that the Galilean probe has brought back will…

Air Writing Prompt C Vonderhaar, Max There is a lot of aspects of our solar system that we don’t know about. Aspects such as what comets do day to day and what our solar system is completely made up of. The Philae mission helped us out on some of those aspects and was important for scientific research because of how they learned more information about comets and how our solar system works. Learning more information about comets is one of the main aspects in this story. For example, Cameron…

Pluto We know Pluto as the dwarf planet that had its planetary status revoked. We know it as the distant 9th planet in our solar system. We know it as the planet billions of miles away from the sun. Even though all of these facts about pluto might be right, we do not know so much about this glorious planet. Pluto is a dwarf planet that was discovered at the beginning of the twentieth century. Over the years, there has been much debate over whether or not we should qualify Pluto as a planet,…

laws and geocentricism of astronomy help understand the possibilities of extraterrestrial life. Planetary science is the scientific study of planets and their planetary systems which includes moons, ring systems, gas clouds, and magnetospheres6. This type of science helps us understand how all the components of planetary systems interact with each other giving us a deeper insight in the nature of planetary science3. This concept also includes geology and atmospheric science. Learning and…