At first it was thought that Uranus was a comet. As Herschel’s sister mapped the night sky it was shown that Uranus was a planet. The movement of this planet showed that it had other effect on it than just the sun which lead to the discovery of Neptune and several satellites…
This Book, The Son of Neptune written by Rick Riordan, is based on Greek mythology and three kids that try to find their destiny and their meaning as Heroes. First, there is Percy Jackson, Percy lost his memory and woke up in a forest stranded by wolves. He was raise by the pack of wolves and the Alpha male Lupa. These wolves could talk. Lupa then sent Percy to the south to continue his destiny as a Hero. Percy later found out that he was the son of Neptune, the god of sea, and he began to have powers and met two other strong and encouraging heroes along the way.…
Julie Wakefield explains, “Uranus possesses a long history of intrigue. The mysterious fleck befuddled Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Among the first to point a telescope toward the heavens, the keen Italian observer likely spotted the faint pearl about a decade into the 17th century, but Galileo assumed it was a star, much as he had dismissed Neptune. Britain's first Royal Astronomer, John Flamsteed (1646-1719), appointed in 1675, the year the Greenwich Observatory debuted, saw the unidentified object in 1690. Flamsteed recorded it as "34 Tauri" in the constellation Taurus the Bull. A later Royal Astronomer, James Bradley (1673-1762), observed Uranus three times in the mid-18th century and dismissed it as well. And French astronomer Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715-1799) sighted the celestial body a dozen times, with his last sighting in 1771, and never guessed it might be something other than a…
The book I read was Son of Neptune, by Rick Riordan. It was 513 pages long.…
* Caloris Basin – huge circular basin more than half as wide as Mercury’s radius…
1) What do we mean by a geocentric universe? Contrast a geocentric view with our modern view of the universe.…
The word planet is derived from the ancient Greek word planetes, or “wanderers.” Though the visible planets of that time did appear to be wandering in the sky, the science of Astronomy has broadened this term as well as our understanding of what, in fact a planet is. By modern definition, “planet” is described as a celestial body other than a star, which orbits a star. Our Solar System orbits the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and has a rich and varied structure. It consists of the Sun, four small inner planets, four outer gas giant planets, and the distant, but small planet Pluto. These planets do not wander erratically; instead they are inherently orbiting the Sun. The delineation of these planets do not end at their identification, rather they are subcategorized as…
Planet Nine, the new planet that has been discovered inside of our solar system. Planet Nine is a planet that astronomers,Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, have found with research and evidence. Because they used research and evidence Planet Nine hasn't been seen but astronomers believe that they have enough evidence to prove that it is in our solar system. The evidence to prove that it is in our solar system is that scientists have recently noticed a change in orbits of space objects near by,and that can only be caused by a massive planet.This is also how astronomers discovered the planet of Neptune because they also noticed a change in gravity with the other planets .This planet is also causing a clustering of asteroids and comets in the Kuiper Belt.The astronomers used the space-based Kepler Mission Telescope to see the changes and to locate where this planet might be.There are about 2,000 identified planets that are surround our solar system but none are a big deal because there is nothing unique about them like Planet Nine.Planet Nine is different from the other 2,000 identified planets because this planet is actually in our solar system, a place we should have known a lot about by…
Neptune, like Uranus, is one of the two outer planets known as an "ice giant." Made up of more ices than Jupiter and Saturn, the chilly body almost seems to be in a class by itself.…
My client Nicolaus Copernicus was very known and a great polymath at his age. He is a priest, mathematician, astronomer, doctor, jurist, physician, classical scholar, governor, administrator, diplomat, economist, and soldier. Even then he still managed to have astronomy as a hobby. My client is known for one thing and one thing only for his ideas and Hypothesis about the sun and the Earth. I believe that my client should be let free for creating the most important scientific hypothesis in history.…
Saturn's rings, originally observed by Galileo in the 1600s, have been marveled at for centuries as the mystery behind their formation increased. It was not until 1980 when Voyager 1 flew by Saturn that a well-developed and precise image of Saturn's rings were collected. Saturn's rings were discovered to be made up of billions of particles ranging from the size of a grain of sand to the size of boulders. The rings, consisting of remains from rocky asteroids and icy comets, are about one kilometer wide. One of the most interesting parts about Saturn's rings, however, is the gaps that separate each ring from each other. The gaps were first discovered by Giovanni Cassini in 1675, who dubbed one of the largest gaps in Saturn's rings the Cassini…
The bacterium called Unununium is a very rare but, serious disease; more and more people are getting this disease day after day. It is caused because people ate too much onions or something related to onions in one day. This disease may last for 1 or 2 years. There is no cure found yet. Scientists are trying their best to find the cure as soon as possible. If you have the disease the symptoms may be: having bad breath, your hands smell like onions, people staying away from you, unusual behavior, headaches, sore throat, somehow taste of onions, unusual cravings for onions, illusions that people are onions, not eating things without onions, yelling out “Eat your onions” to people, listening to songs about onions,…
The average distance from Uranus to the sun is 2,877,000,000 km. It takes 84.02 Earth years for Uranus to Orbit around the sun. Each Uranus day is equal to 17.24 Earth hours. Uranus is a greenish blue planet, it rotational axis different from all other planets as it rotates on its side, like a ball.…
Neptune's diameter is about 49,100 kilometres, or almost 4 times that of Earth. The planet is about 13 times as massive as Earth, but it is not so dense as earth. It has 8 satellites (moons). Astronomers have also detected several rings around Neptune. Neptune cannot be seen without a telescope. Pluto crossed Neptune's orbit on January 23, 1979, and will remain within it until March 15, 1999. So that is how Neptune was…
In 1960s, the USSR and the US, as pioneers, devoted dramatic enthusiasm to exploring the Venus. However, from 1961 to 1969, there were only 2 successful ones from 18 missions.…