Solar System

centuries, however, humankind still lacks an answer. Human beings are cognizant and curious of the world surrounding them. So much so that governments, including the United States government, spend billions of dollars on space programs to explore the solar system, the planet Mars in particular. As our earth develops into a planetary, polluted waste, Mars could eventually become our new home. Scientists believe Mars sustained or could sustain life, yet, they still can't uncover what lies…

the inner solar system has 4 billion 500 million years, but due to a series of gravity, comet 332P is pushed into a new orbit, but due to the new orbit too close to the sun, eventually led to the slow rotation of death ending. The Harbert space telescope to shoot to the final image after the demise of the comet aftermath this unlucky. To a large extent, the comet is a very unfortunate existence. Comets formed by ice, dust, or space rocks, the comet will wander in the outer solar system for…

interact with Jupiter’s gravitational pull. Modern systems are first simulated using computerized Software and their reactions studied when subjected to various dynamics. However, for the case of Voyager 1 during the time of its launch, the computer technology was dismal. Consequently, everything had to rely on human and engineering tests and accuracy (Brumfiel, 2011). Elements had to be tested elsewhere before being embedded into Voyager 1 system. This had risks of its own like making errors…

A Lack of this protective layer is a key factor in what may have caused the depletion of the atmosphere on Mars. Without protection, Mars’ atmosphere may have been stripped off from solar wind particles over the 4.5 billion years of its existence. Dr. Tamppari also talked about NASA’s thousands of detections of minerals. Certain locations have layers of minerals that required a lot of water, and show that the environment has transitioned…

life be like on a different planet? Would humans even exist? Would bugs rule the planet? The possible outcomes are endless. The Firefly Galaxy is a spiral galaxy far from the Milky Way Galaxy that contains a solar system, the Phoenix Solar System, favorable for life. In the Phoenix Solar System is the planet Bibea. Bibea is able to sustain life because of its placement in the universe, the conditions on the planet, and how it was formed. Firefly Galaxy is very similar to the Milky Way in that…

miles away from the sun by Clyde Tombaugh. "Clyde Tombaugh was an American astronomer who worked for the Lowell observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona" (Wikipedia). When Pluto was discovered it was classified as a planet, it became the 9th planet in the solar system. It wasn't much longer before its classification was in questioned, as a result people started saying that it was not a planet no more, but the classification was now a Kuiper Belt left over. "The Kuiper Belt was discovered by Gerard…

answer to! Will they last millions of years? Billions of years? I’ll just have to wait and see… Although one planet was extremely fortunate, I cannot say the same for one of my other planets. An asteroid came and nearly obliterated a planet in my solar system. This saddens me greatly because this planet had an atmosphere, and great potential for life. This planet won’t be having life on it soon, although I am extremely grateful for the one planet that does have life on it. Year 4,278,289,073:…

A planet bigger than any in our solar system may be lurking in the darkness slowly getting close to our solar system again from a 15,000 year journey. Now what might this planet’s name is? Planet X or Planet Phattie which was discovered in 1906 by Percival Lowell in the Lowell observatory in Flagstaff Arizona. But some farther into the past, a mathematician Urban le Verrier in 1846 discovered Neptune since there were irregular patterns in Uranus’s orbit, and scientists think since new little…

the word planet. Pluto has been a part of our solar system for a long time now, but the question is Pluto a planet is still upon us. Some consider Pluto a planet and some consider it a dwarf planet. By using Kepler’s Third Law we figured out that the mass of Object X is 1.476*10^22kg, and expressed it in Mearth which equals .00247, in other words 405 Object X will fit onto Earth, therefore Object X should be considered a planet. In our solar system we have moons, planets, dwarf planets, comets…

and how they came to Earth. STARS SPEWED OUT PRESOLAR GRAINS ALL OVER EARTH As one may assume, presolar grains are older than the sun. They were thrown up by the stars in the universe hundreds of millions of years ago. Way before Earth had a solar system. By analyzing these ancient grains, scientists can trace the origins from the stars and how they got to Earth. Thanks to the wonders of technology, researchers can build computers simulating these star explosions to see if they came from…