Solar System

For years, astronomers have debated if Pluto is a planet or not. Pluto has been taken off the list of planets, and has now been classified as a Dwarf Planet. According to IAU.org, “A dwarf planet is classified as an object in orbit around the Sun that is large enough to have its own gravity pull itself into a round shape... A dwarf planet may also orbit in a zone that has many other objects in it.” Pluto now falls into the dwarf planet category because of its size and because it is in a zone of…

Characteristics of Sun As matter of fact, our solar system is composed of the Sun and all things which orbit around it in the nature of the Earth, the other eight planets, asteroids, and also comets. Even though the sun is a normal star but it is much closer to us compared to any other star. By studying the sun, we do notonly acquire about stars and galaxies but in the end, we can also learn more about the universe. Another significance of learning more about the sun is we will apprehend more…

Audience Analysis Student 1 Lorraine: Lorraine’s native language is Spanish. She has been studying English since kindergarten and has been my student since the beginning of the school year. Lorraine is in the intermediate fluency stage of language development. She is able to read text and relate the context of the reading to the lesson. She does well on critical thinking test questions. Lorraine is able to write brief paragraphs on context. Unfortunately, Lorraine is very shy and when she…

scenario where a rogue black hole comes into our solar system swallowing our sun and brings darkness to all of human kind. It will follow a group of survivors that were able to get off the planet in an attempt to get to the nearest star. Leaving behind a slowly dying planet. They are met with a number of challenges. The most pressing being the increasing emission in solar weather produced by the black hole’s accretion disk, they constantly need to fix the solar electric sail that not only…

Sedna- Formally known as 90377 Sedna is a large minor planet. It is in the far reaches of the solar system. It was discovered 11/14/2003. It's Aphelion (the far extreme of it's orbit) is a jaw dropping 937AU, or 87,099,591,409 miles, from the sun. It is made up of Water, Methane, and Nitrogen ices. It's orbit is insanely long, the last time Sedna was in the same place in it's orbit as it is now, the New Stone Age was just beginning. It is a member of the inner oort cloud as well. It was…

small and insufficient that there are some many unknowns out there. 2. Trappist-1 system Highlights: a recently found solar system located 40 light years away that house 7 earth-size planets,…

Within our solar system, exists a collection of eight planets, their moons, asteroids, meteoroids, and comets. These eight planets in our solar system are generally categorized into two types: terrestrial planets, and gas giants. The word terrestrial comes from the Latin word terra which means earth, land, or territory according to dictionary.com. From this, terrestrial planets literally means Earth-like rocky planets. This contrasts from gas giants, since gas giants are mostly composed of gases…

The inner solar system planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are fascinating because they orbit closest to the sun. In fact, a human could possibly stand on the four inner planets, unlike the four outer planets that are made of gas. Earth, Mercury, Venus, and Mars provide crucial information for researchers who need additional information about the four inner planets. I chose this topic because I thought it would be facilitating to learn about a different world, and how they are similar, yet…

Lesson Plans Teach children to tie shoe laces Grade level: PK, Kindergarten Subject: Science (shoes is placed on your feet so that’s body part) Objective: • Students will learn how to tie shoes into bunny style way. • Students will get used to tie their own shoe. Primary Standards Addressed: PE.K.R.2.2 willingly try new movements and motor skills. Materials: • Tennis shoe template printed on construction paper (1 per child) • Crayons or markers • Long strands of yarn (1 per child) •…

You may call it the Big Bang Theory or even the Big Splash, but the Theia Impact is the biggest contribution to our planet and is timeless to us humans. Although the impact happened 4.5 billion years ago, and 30 to 50 million years after the solar system began to form, a mars sized rock created a modern tool used everyday by everybody. Earth’s moon is unique in matter and how it became apart of our planet's orbit. Moons are captured by their planets by their rings and pull of the orbit of the…