Life on Other Planets Life on other planets‚ Is there another titan planet out there that harbors life? Scientist have found two such planets in a neighboring but distant Solar System. Which planets are habitable and is there already life there or basically in general‚ “Is there life in outer space?” That is the question and debate among astrologists and scientist alike about this discovery of two planets that orbit the red dwarf star of Gliese 581 (Gliese 581c.eu). The fascination of intelligent
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found more and more ‘super-Earths’‚ which is a term used for an extrasolar planet that has a mass higher than planet Earth’s but below the mass of the solar systems’ gas giants. In some cases‚ these super-Earths contain water as well as potential living support. In 2011‚ fifty new planets were found. Sixteen of them are super-Earths. As the article states‚ these planets were found by a High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher – HARPS for short. This instrument has found two-thirds of known
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Why do the planets have different colours? The answer is that the planets are different colors because they are made of different materials. Planets have the colours that they have because of what they are made of and how their surfaces or atmospheres reflect and absorb sunlight. Mercury has a dark grey‚ rocky surface which is covered with a thick layer of dust. The surface is thought to be made up of igneous silicate rocks and dust. Venus is entirely covered with a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere
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Terrestrial and Jovian Planets Our solar system contains nine planets‚ which are broken down into 2 classifications known as terrestrial planets and jovian planets. The terrestrial planets are composed primarily of rock and metal. They also generally have high densities‚ slow rotation‚ solid surfaces‚ no rings‚ and few satellites. These planets include Mercury‚ Venus‚ Earth‚ and Mars. On the other hand‚ the jovian planets are composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. They generally have
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The “Planet” Pluto was discovered by scientist in 1930. Even then‚ there was argument over whether this little ball of ice should be considered a planet. It was decided it should‚ mainly because since the gravity of the eighth planet‚ Neptune‚ was found because it was tugging on the seventh planet‚ Uranus‚ and then Pluto was found when its gravity tugged on the orbit of Neptune. Pluto was just a continuation in the time-tested practice of discovering the existence of planets from the behavior of
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The Giant planets Lesson 8.8 Introduction: Gas giants fall into different categories. So-called “traditional” gas giants include Jupiter. Jupiter is such a classic example of a gas giant that gas giants are often referred to as Jovian planets despite the fact that some gas giants ‚ice giants for instance are very different from Jupiter. Traditional gas giants have high levels of hydrogen and helium. Another category of gas giants is ice giants. Ice giants are also composed of small amounts
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Culler‚ J. (2011‚ December 7). Kepler A search for Habitable Planets. Retrieved from NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepscicon-briefing.html Jones‚ J. (2011‚ May 1). Nanomaterials Transforms Hairstyling Tools. Retrieved from NASA: http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2010/cg_5.html Wilson‚ J. (2011‚ August 25). About NASA. Retrieved from NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/what_does_nasa_do.html Living On Another Planet | Kepler 22-b | | Jessica Loyd | 11/1/2012 | For my
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The solar system consists of the Sun and 9 planets revolving around it in different orbits. The statistics of the sun and the planets are given below : SUN Age : About 5 Billion years Distance : 149.8 Million Kms Diameter : 1‚38‚400 Kms. Photosphere temperature : 5‚770 K Core temperature : 150‚000‚000 K Absolute visual magnitude : 4.75 Rotation (as seen from the earth at the equator) : 25.38 days Rotation (near the poles) : 33 days The sun consists of 71% of Hydrogen‚ 26.5% Helium and
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Shoemaker is a comet that hit the planet Jupiter in July of 1994. It was discovered by three expert comet detectors‚ Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker‚ and David Levy‚ in 1992. The comet originated its name by its discoverers the “Shoemaker- Levy 9: Comet”. As information came it they started to realize that the comet had been orbiting Jupiter and not the Sun itself. They discovered that the comet might have even been orbiting the planet as late as the year 1966. The impacts ended up being a multi-day
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of Zeus (Jupiter); • The only planet whose name is derived from a figure from Greek mythology rather than Roman mythology: II. Characteristics • Dim; • Slow orbit; • Atmosphere contains more "ices" such as water‚ ammonia and methane‚ along with traces of hydrocarbons; • Coldest planetary atmosphere in Solar System; • Axis of rotation is tilted sideways; • Uranus’s rings can sometimes appear to circle the planet like an archery target and
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