Welcome to SCIE 150: The Science of Everything Today: Astronomy Today • Stars: how are they born‚ how do they live‚ how do they die ▫ How do different stars vary in these paths • Planets: how are they born ▫ What are the planets of our solar system like • Constellations are A. Stars that are nearby each other in space B. Stars that appear to be near each other‚ but may be very far apart The Sun • Our Sun is A. B. C. D. An average star A very small star A
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THE GEOLOGIC TIMESCALE Divisions of Geologic Time * Eras are subdivided into periods...periods are subdivided into epochs. * Geological time begins with Precambrian Time. Precambrian time covers approximately 88% of Earth’s history. FOUR Eras… * PRE-CAMBRIAN – 88% of earth’s history * Paleozoic (ancient life) * 544 million years ago…lasted 300 million yrs * Mesozoic (middle life) * 245 million years ago…lasted 180 million yrs * Cenozoic
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his drawing until he came up with a box and threw out an explanation to it. That is how he made his acquaintance to the little prince. He took him a long time to know where he came from‚ but little by little he learned that the prince came from asteroid B-612. Everything there is small. Through their conversation‚ everything was revealed to him. The little prince took much care of his planet. He doesn’t want anything destroyed his home. One day‚ a rose appeared on his planet. For him‚ it is the
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them are Megan Schwamb‚ Emily Schaller‚ Darin Ragozzine‚ Antonin Bouchez‚ Adam Burgasser‚ Chad Trujillo‚ Jean-Luc Margot and Marc Kuchner. Awards and Honors During his career‚ Mike E. Brown has won several awards and had many honors. For instance‚ Asteroid 11714‚ which was discovered in April 1998‚ was named Mike Brown in his honor. Time magazine also put him on its list of the 100 most influential people of
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Solar System Our solar neighborhood is an exciting place. The Solar System is full of planets‚ moons‚ asteroids‚ comets‚ minor planets‚ and many other exciting objects. Learn about Io‚ the explosive moon that orbits the planet Jupiter‚ or explore the gigantic canyons and deserts on Mars. How Did The Solar System form? This is an important question‚ and one that is difficult for scientists to understand. After all‚ the creation of our Solar System took place billions of years before there
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Former Vice President Al Gore is starring in a new movie called “An Inconvenient Truth.” It is a documentary about global warming. This is a subject that Mister Gore has been interested in for many years.For the past six years‚ Mister Gore has been traveling around the country and the world giving talks about global warming. He has given the talks more than one thousand times. Most of “An Inconvenient Truth” is filmed at these events. Mister Gore speaks to groups of people with a big screen behind
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“The environment is being harmed more by human activity than by natural disasters.” Is this true? “I realized that you aren’t actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with its surrounding environment‚ but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply‚ and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern
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Astronomy flash cards Term Which of the following has your "address" in the correct order?A) you‚ Earth‚ solar system‚ Milky Way‚ Local Supercluster‚ Local GroupB) you‚ Earth‚ Local Group‚ Local Supercluster‚ solar system‚ Milky WayC) you‚ Earth‚ solar system‚ Milky Way‚ Local Group‚ Local SuperclusterD) you‚ Earth‚ solar system‚ Local Group‚ Local Supercluster‚ Milky WayE) you‚ Earth‚ solar system‚ Local Group‚ Milky Way‚ Local Supercluster | | Definition C) you‚ Earth‚ solar system‚ Milky
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References: Other large Kuiper belt objects about or over 1000 km across are Pluto ’s moon Charon‚ Quaoar‚ Varuna‚ Ixion‚ 1996 TL66‚ 2002 TX300‚ 2002 TC302‚ 2002 UX25 and 2002 AW197. Ceres‚ the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt‚ is about 950 km across.
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| Uniformitarianism vs. Catastrophism | Lara Anderson | | Dr. Travis Bradshaw | PHSC 201-A19 | For much of history‚ humans have grappled with the question: Where do we come from? Today there are two main houses of argument which have many different names. They are called secular and religious‚ evolutionists and creationists‚ humanists and theists. However‚ each house subscribes to its own idea of how the world has come about and progressed through history. The secular/evolutionist/humanist
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