Physical Science Planet Project 5/3/11 [pic] After the discovery of Uranus‚ scientist noticed the orbit was not as it should be in accordance to Newton’s law. Neptune was discovered by Johann Galle on September 23‚ 1846. Neptune has been visited by the Voyager 2; it flew by the planet on August 25‚ 1989. It was the first planet to be found by a mathematical prediction. Alexis Bouvard thought the change in Uranus’s orbit changed by gravitational perturbation by an unknown planet. The
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“OUR PLANET OUR HOME” God create our planet earth for us to have a home so we have to take care of our planet because God gave it to us and if we don’t take care of our planet someday our planet earth will be destroy or it will be gone. We have to protect our nature specially the trees because if we don’t protect our nature and if we cut down all the trees we will experience stronger floods and typhoon that will destroy our planet. We can save our planet earth by simply throwing your garbage in
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Earth: The Goldilocks Planet Earth has often been called the “Goldilocks Planet” of our solar system and even our universe. The term derives from the children’s story of “Goldilocks and the three bears” where the girl wanted everything just right‚ for example “not too hot or cold‚ not too hard or soft….” Our Earth has the perfect conditions for life‚ the perfect distance from the sun that is not too hot or cold‚ allowing a large amount of water to be present in liquid form. These conditions are
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Once known as the ninth planet of the solar system‚ Pluto is now the second-largest dwarf planet. Composed primarily of ice and rock‚ Pluto took part of our Solar System for 76 years. It was discovered on January 23‚ 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. Tombaugh was an American astronomer who worked at the Lowell Obeservatory. Tombaugh had been working on a project when he came across a moving object in photographs he had taken of the celestial sky. After observing a lower quality picture taken of the mysterious
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Pluto Not a Planet‚ Astronomers Rule Pluto has been voted off the island. The distant‚ ice-covered world is no longer a true planet‚ according to a new definition of the term voted on by scientists today "Whoa! Pluto’s dead‚" said astronomer Mike Brown‚ of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena‚ as he watched a Webcast of the vote. "There are finally‚ officially‚ eight planets in the solar system." In a move that’s already generating controversy and will force textbooks to be rewritten
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Pluto: A Planet? Many issues have arisen from the debate whether or not Pluto is a planet. Some astronomers say that Pluto should be classified as a "minor planet" due to its size‚ physical characteristics‚ and other factors. On the other hand‚ some astronomers defend Pluto’s planet status‚ citing several key features. Indeed‚ most of the problem is that there is no formal definition of a planet. Furthermore‚ it is very difficult to invent one that would allow the solar system to contain all
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Following the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846‚ there was considerable speculation that another planet might exist beyond its orbit. The search began in the mid-19th century and culminated at the start of the 20th with Percival Lowell’s quest for Planet X. Lowell proposed the Planet X hypothesis to explain apparent discrepancies in the orbits of the gas giants‚ particularly Uranus and Neptune‚[1] speculating that the gravity of a large unseen ninth planet could have perturbed Uranus enough
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know that our solar system has a total of eight planets‚ after they decided Pluto wasn’t a planet it was then know to be a dwarf planet. What if there are other planets in our solar system? With advanced technology they did it‚ they found another planet that’s in our solar system‚ but it’s not proven yet. The high tech computers detect a planet but it has still not been seen by the human eye. So what this means is the the planet isn’t officially a planet until it has been seen by a human for it to be
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consists of the sun and nine planets. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. Mercury was named after the Roman God of Commerce and Thievery. It might have gotten its name because of the way it quickly appears and disappears from Earth’s view. Mercury is the second smallest planet in the solar system; Pluto is the only planet that is smaller. Earth’s diameter is about 7‚200‚ while tiny Mercury has less than half of that size‚ about 3‚000 miles in diameter. Mercury‚ a planet‚ is smaller than Ganymede
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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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