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Center Of The Universe Force Of Gravity
1,271 wordsThe human conceptualization of the solar system dates back to the beginning of time. The early Egyptians worshipped the sun as a source of life and then the area called space was becoming a curiosity to humans. Throughout history, our knowledge of the solar system has increased and there is still much to learn. Through the research and studies of Brahmagupta, Ptolemy, Kepler, Brahe, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, and Einstein. With this knowledge, laws and equations for physical science have been ...
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Billion Years Ago Solar System
2,233 words... alvarez's case, and see if it was flawed. This job was turning out to be more fun than I had expected. On my second reading of Alvarez's letter, I found it particularly dubious that the Cretaceous and Eocene extinctions should be excluded. How do we know that asteroids do not hit the Earth periodically? I asked. Maybe our failure to arrive at a theory just meant that we hadn't been clever enough. Not finding something is not the same as proving it is not there. I decided to reserve judgment....
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Planet From The Sun Solar System
1,232 words... eld, it is so week that no instrument has been able to detect it. Mars like the Earth is tilted on its rotational axis. Liquid water cannot exist on Mars's surface because of the low temperature and pressure' water exists only as ice deposited at the poles and perhaps trapped below the surface and as vapor in the atmosphere. Mars is very desolate and barren and is covered in craters and are prone to violent sandstorms. The UV radiation of Mars would kill any known life. Mars has the largest ...
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Planets And Solar System
1,809 words"A planet is a celestial body that revolves around a central star and does not shine by its own light " (Grolier, 1992). The only planetary system that is known to man is our solar system. It is made up of nine planets which range in size and make-up. The nine major planets in our solar system are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. There are also many other minor planets which are also in our solar system, but they are unimportant compared to the nine major ...
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Carbon Dioxide Solar System
1,582 wordsHumans live on a small planet in a tiny part of a vast universe. This part of the universe is called the solar system, and is dominated by a single brilliant star-the sun. The solar system is the earths neighbourhood and the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are the Earths neighbours. They all have the same stars in the sky and orbit the same sun. Scientists believe the solar system began about 5 billion years ago, perhaps when a nearby star exploded and ca...
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Planet From The Sun Carbon Dioxide
2,115 wordsWhat are planets? Planets are kinda like asteroid around the sun. There are nine planets in the solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth (Our planet), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. The Terrestrial Planets The terrestrial planets are the four innermost planets in the solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. They are called terrestrial because they have a compact, rocky surface like the Earth's. The planets, Venus, Earth, and Mars have significant atmospheres while Mercury has...
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Dust Particles Magnetic Fields
2,093 words... planet from the Sun and is the third largest in the solar system. It has an equatorial diameter of 51, 800 kilometers (32, 190 miles) and orbits the Sun once every 84. 01 Earth years. It has a mean distance from the Sun of 2. 87 billion kilometers (1. 78 billion miles). The length of a day on Uranus is 17 hours 14 minutes. Uranus has at least 22 moons. The atmosphere of Uranus is composed of 83 % hydrogen, 15 % helium, 2 % methane and small amounts of acetylene and other hydrocarbons. Methan...
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Life On Earth Liquid Water
1,175 wordsThe view of Christiaan Huygens, the Dutch mathematician and physicist who discovered Saturn's moon Titan in 1655, was as follows: Now can anyone look upon, and compare these systems (of Jupiter and Saturn) together, without being amazed at the vast magnitude and noble attendants of these two planets, in respect of this little pitiful Earth of ours? Or can they force themselves to think, that the wise Creator has disposed of all his animals and plants here, has furnished and adorned this spot onl...
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Degrees Fahrenheit Surface Temperature
1,087 wordsOur planet Uranus. Uranus is the seventh planet of our solar system. Uranus is the mysterious blue planet that circles the sun, far from the Earth. A man named William Herschel first discovered this mysterious planet in 1781, he was a German musician living in England who had a great interest in Astronomy. He believed the sky held secrets he wanted to know. He couldnt afford to buy a big telescope, so he made his own. One night in March 1781, Herschel was studying constellations of Gemini. He sp...
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Thousand Six Hundred Planet From The Sun
1,448 wordsOn a hot summer night, as you are sitting outside enjoying the evening, you tilt your head back and look into the night sky. You begin to wonder what is really out there? How far away are the stars? Are they stars or are they planets? We live in a part of the night sky called the Milky Way Galaxy. Our galaxy can be seen with the naked eye on a clear summer night. It resembles a ribbon stretched across the night sky. During the summer is when the Milky Way is at its fullest with the stars so clus...
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Important To Note Amount Of Energy
1,728 wordsThere are nine planets in our solar system and we have visited all of these but one. Even though Pluto is the smallest and furthest planet from the sun, it is no way inferior to the other planets. It in fact is possibly one of the most unique bodies in the solar system. There is much that we do not know about this tiny world and its equally unique moon, Charon. For this reason we are proposing to send a flyby mission to the Pluto-Charon system as soon as possible. Pluto was discovered on Februar...
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Magnetic Field Solar System
1,666 words... are fired into a cavity of xenon gas. Once in the cavity, the electrons knock some of xenon's electrons off. Since electrons are negatively charged, the entire xenon atom becomes positively charged and therefore ionized. These ionized particles will now fly out of the back of the spacecraft at an incredible rate of more than 62, 000 miles per hour! The xenon ions would be going in the opposite direction of the craft. Due to Newton's third law, which was discussed above, the spacecraft will b...
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Star Traveling To The Millennium
1,884 wordsNASA's goal of faster, better, cheaper has been the motivation for them to develop new mission concepts, and to validate never-before-used technologies in space. The new technologies, if proven to work, will revolutionize space exploration in the next century. According to NASA's New Millennium Program home page, last updated on September 16, 1999, NASA's current project of Deep Space 1 demonstrates some of their most exotic technologies. One of the most impressive is the testing of an ion engin...
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Celestial Bodies General Assembly
1,370 wordsWhy Pluto Is Not a Planet? According to the 26 th General Assembly for the International Astronomical Union, Pluto is no longer a planet. More than 2, 500 astronomers, who took part in 7 Symposia, 17 Joint Discussions, and 7 Special Sessions adopted new definition of a planet. From now on, Resolution 5 A defines the planet as a celestial body that: Is in orbit around the Sun; Has enough mass for its self-gravity to overcome the rigid body forces to assume a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round)...
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Kilometers In Diameter Solar System
1,940 wordsHave you Comet Comets Have you ever looked up in the sky and seen a little ball creeping by? If so, did you wonder what it was? That little ball is called a comet. Comets are small, fragile, and irregularly shaped. Most are composed of frozen gas. However, some are composed of frozen gas and non-volatile grains. They usually follow very strict paths around the sun. Comets become most visible when they cross the sun. This also applies to people who view comets with telescopes. When a comet gets n...
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Planet From The Sun Center Of The Universe
2,375 wordsAssignment 1: The Solar System The solar system consists of the Sun; the nine planets, 67 satellites of the planets and a large number of small bodies (comets and asteroids). The inner solar system contains the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars: The planets of the outer solar system are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto: The orbits of the planets are ellipses with the Sun at one focus, though all except Mercury and Pluto are very nearly circular. The orbits of the planets are all more...
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Cooperative Learning Solar System
522 wordsSara Bartalo 11 / 20 / 00 Grade 4 Solar System I. Pre- Instruction Phase 1. NYS Standards: ELA Standards 1, 2 &# 038; 4 - Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking for -information and understanding -literary response and expression -social interaction MST Standard 6 - Understand the relationships and common themes that connect mathematics, science, and technology and apply the themes to these and other areas of learning Social Studies 3 - Use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate thei...
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Planet From The Sun Outer Planets
2,417 wordsThe Solar System consists of the Sun, the nine planets and their satellites; the comets, asteroids, meteoroids, and interplanetary dust and gas. It is composed of two systems, the inner solar system and the outer solar system. The inner solar system contains the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. The outer solar system contains Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The inner planets are relatively small and made primarily of rock and iron. The asteroids orbit the sun in a belt beyond the...
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Gas And Dust Solar System
893 wordsOrigin Of The Solar System For more than 300 years there has been serious scientific discussion of the processes and events that led to the formation of the solar system. For most of this time lack of knowledge about the physical conditions in the solar system prevented a rigorous approach to the problem. Explanations were especially sought for the regularity in the directions of rotation and orbit of objects in the solar system, the slow rotation of the Sun, and the Titles-Bode law, which state...
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Carbon Dioxide Mercury Venus
1,583 wordsA Planets The Planets A planet is a celestial body that revolves around a central star and does not shine by its own light. The only planetary system that is known to man is our solar system. It is made up of nine planets, which range in size and characteristics. The nine major planets in our solar system are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. There are also many other minor planets which are also in our solar system, but they are unimportant compared to the...
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