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Our Planetary System (Chapter 7)

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Chapter 7 Our Planetary System

Chapter 7 Our Planetary System. Earth, as viewed by the Voyager spacecraft. What does the solar system look like?. Eight major planets with nearly circular orbits Pluto is smaller than the major planets and has a more elliptical orbit.

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Can we find Earth-mass planets orbiting our nearest star, ? Centauri?

Can we find Earth-mass planets orbiting our nearest star, ? Centauri?. John Hearnshaw, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ. Humboldt Symposium University of Otago Dunedin 29 January 2010. Harlow Shapley (1885-1972) Harvard College Observatory.

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Where do we live? How are the other planets compared to Earth? S6E1

Where do we live? How are the other planets compared to Earth? S6E1. What is the universe? All of space & everything in it!. How does science explain how the UNIVERSE came to be?.

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Voyager CRS Science Team:

Voyager Observations of Galactic and Anomalous Cosmic Rays at the Termination Shock and in the Heliosheath. F.B. M c Donald Institute for Physical Science and Technology, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. Voyager CRS Science Team:

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Where do we live? How are the other planets compared to Earth? S6E1

Where do we live? How are the other planets compared to Earth? S6E1. What is the universe? All of space & everything in it!. How does science explain how the UNIVERSE came to be?.

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Unit 2 Earth, Moon, Sun Key Words

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Comet Activity and Composition

Comet Activity and Composition. K. Meech Ast 734 Seminar 8/30/04. Dirty Snowballs. Inactivity to Activity. Sublimation of gases Drags dust from nucleus Gravity low Most dust escapes Solar radiation pressure ? coma ? tail Photodissociation of gas. Ionization ? gas tail

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Conversations with the Earth Tom Burbine tburbine@framingham

Conversations with the Earth Tom Burbine tburbine@framingham.edu. Energy. Energy is the property of a system that enables it to do work. Work. Work = Force x Distance. To do work. You need to move something. Energy units. In English Units, we use calories to measure energy

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Our Place in Space

Our Place in Space. Where we are. We live on Earth. Welcome to Earf!. Earth orbits the Sun. The Earth is in the Solar System. The Solar System is the Milky Way. The Milky Way is a galaxy. We do not know what that is. Yet. A galaxy is a massive gravitationally bound system

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Searching for Frozen super Earth mass planet via microlensing.

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39 th COSPAR Scientific Assembly Mysore, INDIA July 14-22, 2012

Voyager In The Distant Heliosheath: Continuing The Quest Of Victor Hess. F.B. McDonald 1 , W.R. Webber 2 , E.C. Stone 3 , A.C. Cummings 3 , B.C. Heikkila 4 , N. Lal 4 1 Institute for Physical Science and Technology, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

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SMALL BODIES

SMALL BODIES. (which could harbour life !). Small planets in Earth-like orbits Small planets in mean-motion resonances Planetary Satellites Trojan planets. (in planetary systems like those discovered). E A R T H S. Jupiter at 5.2 AU and Saturn at 9.5 AU do not

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??? ???? ?????? ?????? ?????? ????? ???????? 27-28.11.2011 Chapter 6 Formation of Planetary Systems Our Solar System and Beyond. ????? ????? ?????? ?? ?????? ???????. ????? ??????? ????? ??????. ????? ??????? ????? ??????. 6.4 ????? ??????? ????? ???? ????? ??????? ?? ????????

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A Planet a day

A Planet a day. Our solar system. Mercury. First planet from the sun. .387 AU Ranked 8 th in size (being the smallest of the true planets) 4.9mm

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slimy/~steuard/teaching/solarsystem/SolarSystemPosterM.jpg

http://www.slimy.com/~steuard/teaching/solarsystem/SolarSystemPosterM.jpg. Relative position: 57 million km (.387 AU)

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Influence of Time-dependent Processes and Background Magnetic Field on Shock Properties

Influence of Time-dependent Processes and Background Magnetic Field on Shock Properties. N. Lugaz, I. Roussev and C. Downs Institute for Astronomy Igor Sokolov University of Michigan Carla Jacobs KU Leuven. SHINE workshop , August 7, 2009. What do we know about shocks? (1). Observations

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ORBITAL MOTION

ORBITAL MOTION. Formulas. Aphelion, perihelion refer to farthest distance, and closest to the Sun. Apogee, perigee refer to farthest distance and closest to the Earth. (peri is the closest). Finding the semi major axis. This is the average distance from the orbiting body.

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Scale of the Universe

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