1. Which of the following is not one of Kepler’s Laws of planetary motion? A) As a planet orbits the sun‚ it sweeps out equal areas in equal time. B) The closer a planet is to the sun‚ the slower it moves in its orbit. C) A planet’s orbit is an ellipse‚ with the sun at one focus. D) The more distant a planet’s orbit is from the sun‚ the longer it takes to complete an orbit. Table for Individual Question Feedback Points Earned: 1.0/1.0 Correct Answer(s): B 2. What are the three
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The bland aquamarine face of Uranus bears witness to the fact that Uranus is enshrouded in clouds. The planet appears to be blue-green because the atmosphere absorbs the‚ red wavelengths of the visible spectrum‚ . The uniformity of the planet’s appearance confirms that the planet’s atmosphere is composed almost solely of one element‚ methane gas. There is a preponderance of haze‚ composed of ethane and other hydrocarbon ices high in the stratosphere‚ and clouds of methane ice low in the troposphere
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did not agree with Ptolemy and his name was Nicholas Copernicus‚ he believed in a heliocentric system which pretty much means the sun is at the center of everything. Galileo Galilee and Johannes Kepler shortly have noticed other moons of many other planets in the system that proved Copernicus’ theory to be
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is a one of five planets that can be seen from Earth without using a binocular or a telescope. With that‚ it is well-known in every culture since long time ago. The official name for it "Mars" is adopted by the Roman‚ in honoring of their god of war; MARS because the reddish color remind everyone of blood and death. It is also known as the "Red Planet" due to its reddish appearance from observation on Earth. That creates more attention to Mars from people more than any other planets. Living on
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happening. The thing is‚ no one is really sure what causes gravity‚ but the effects have been studied by many physicists and astronomers. Three of the more obvious effects of gravity are things falling down‚ weight‚ and the the moon and planets staying in their orbits. Things fall down. People have generally grown to accept that if one lets go of one ’s prized and valuable textbook when walking through a mud puddle‚ the book will invariably end up in the puddle and therefore be
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Kevin Navarrete Benham‚ Timothy ENC1101 Mon-Wed 9:30-10:45am 4-1-13 Formation of Earth and life on earth. About 4.57 Billion years ago our planet earth was formed. Earth contains many things that allows us to live. How was the Earth formed and why do we live in it is a question many of us would like to find out‚ but there are many answers to these questions and we cannot come up with a conclusion. The theory that is said to explain the formation of our earth is called the Big Bang
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ASTEROIDS Did you know that there are really millions of planets orbiting the Sun? Apart from nine “proper” planets‚ there are a few million‚ minor ones‚ called asteroids. These are different chunks of rock‚ which range from specks of dust to those which are a few kilometres across. Most of them travel in an orbit between Mars and Jupiter called the asteroid belt. Others follow different orbits. In the 18th century‚ astronomers were convinced that a missing world existed between Mars and Jupiter
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URANUS MRS. LANE’S SCIENCE CLASS AMIL JONES MAY 22‚ 2013 PERIOD 5 Uranus is one of the outer planets which we call gas giants and Uranus is also the seventh planet from the sun which was discovered in 1781 by an astronomer named William Herschel. Uranus was the first planet to be discovered in Modern times. Uranus is named after a Greek god of the sky in Latin. Before Uranus was discovered it was thought to be a comet but it was not fuzzy looking so it couldn’t be. It’s so far from the
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thick. In comparison‚ the earth has a diameter of 12‚756 km and the sun has a diameter of 1‚392‚000 km. This means that Halley’s Comet is only about 4% the size of earth but because of it’s coma‚ it appears much larger to the naked eye. While the planets orbit around the sun‚ Halley’s Comet orbits towards and away from the sun‚ all the way out to Jupiter‚ perpendicular to the planet’s orbits. Halley is classified as a periodic or short-period comet‚ one with an orbit lasting 200 years or less
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observational astronomy. Some cave paintings became known as an understanding of the path the moon takes around the sun. This is known as the ecliptic. The ecliptic lead to the discovery of the zodiac. Stars‚ moons‚ and planets in the Paleolithic culture are not the stars‚ moons and planets of modern time that we know. They are those whose habitat is the Milky Way and the celestial sphere now. Many of these paintings reflected images that were seen in the night sky. Such as the Bison that were painted
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