Chapter 14 Section 2 Notes: The Sun The sun produces energy through nuclear fusion. In the process of nuclear fusion‚ two atomic nuclei combine‚ forming a larger‚ more massive nucleus and releasing energy. Within the sun‚ hydrogen atoms join together to form helium. Such conditions exist in the sun’s core‚ or central region. The sun’s interior consists of the core‚ the radiation zone‚ and the convection zone. The sun’s energy is produced in its central core. The radiation zone is a region
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— RINT - Task 2: SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS‚ THEORIES‚ & INQUIRY — Harrison Rusinyak — Scientific Concepts or Phenomenon — Solar System — The Solar System in past concepts. — Earth was thought to be the center of the Universe. — The stars and planets revolved around the Earth. — The Earth was thought of as flat. — No one experimented to see how far they can see. — The Solar System current concepts. — The planets revolve around the sun
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bodies of comets and meteors found in the solar system. Comet‚ Asteroid‚ and Meteor An asteroid and a comet are very similar‚ and yet at times they are unique and easily distinguishable from each other. An asteroid and a comet are both a small solar body system‚ rotating around the sun. An asteroid consists of rock and metal‚ and may have some organic compound. Although it is quite like the comet‚ an asteroid does not have the visible coma of a fuzzy outline that a comet does. A comet is composed
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Rosetta is a robotic spacecraft built and launched by the European Space Agency to perform a detailed study of the comet 67P. It is part of the ESA Horizon 2000 cornerstone missions and it is the first mission in which a spacecraft is planned to orbit and land on a comet. Rosetta was launched in March 2004 on an Ariane 5 rocket and will reach the comet in August 2014. The spacecraft consists of two main elements: the Rosetta space probe orbiter‚ which features 12 instruments‚ and the Philaerobotic
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is very important because of two specific things; the first being‚ Kuiper Belt Objects are remnants from the earliest phases of the solar system and are tens of millions of years old and secondly‚ that the Kuiper Belt is the source of short-period comets. The Kuiper Belt is named after Gerald Kuiper‚ an American scientist with a special interest in astronomy. He wrote a paper in 1951 that mentioned objects out beyond Pluto. He predicted that there must be a cloud of dust and debris out past the
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Mysterious Centaurs May Be Comets” New observations from NASA’s NEOWISE project reveal the hidden nature of centaurs‚ objects in our solar system that have confounded astronomers for resembling both asteroids and comets. The centaurs‚ which orbit between Jupiter and Neptune‚ were named after the mythical half-horse‚ half-human creatures called centaurs due to their dual nature. This artist’s concept shows a centaur creature together with asteroids on the left and comets at right. Image credit:
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AQUAWAR and SHAM COMET have infiltrated the evil haunted blimp of MC Mac Menace‚ a pirate rapper who was put in prison in ‘06 by SHAM COMET’S father‚ GIGA SCORPIO‚ but not before he was frozen for eternity by MC MAC MENACE’S freeze gun of death. SHAM COMET and his faithful companion‚ PROPUS AQUAWAR‚ are searching for the amulet of Chefboyardee in the hopes that they can unfreeze GIGA SCORPIO from the icy prison of death. PROPUS AQUAWAR I don’t like this Sham. It is too quiet. SHAM COMET Well‚ it is
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existence of several families of asteroids has been used to support this explanation. COMETS Comets are the shining wanderers of the solar system. With their glowing tails that may stretch 100 million kilometers through space. Most comets reside in the outer fringes of the solar system‚ far beyond Pluto. For all their apparent size in the sky‚ comets are actually fairly small objects. When a comet begins its trip down past the Sun‚ it is probably a chunk of "dirty ice‚" a mixture of rock
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The Solar System My project is about the Solar System. The Solar System is made up of all the planets that orbits the Sun. The Solar System consists of moon‚ comets‚ asteroids‚ minor planets‚ dust and gas. Everything in the Solar System orbits or revolves around the Sun. The Sun contains around 98% of all the material in the Solar System. The larger an object is the more gravity it has. The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. After the sun is Mercury‚ the innermost planet in the
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supposedly don’t have the characteristics of an active comet but their volatile based surfaces resemble comets more closely than originally thought.(1) Whereas a meteorite is a small rocky or metallic body that travels through space‚ they are significantly smaller than asteroids and range in size from small grains to 1 meter-wide objects. Smaller objects than this are classified as micrometeoroids or space dust; most of these are fragments from comets or asteroids after a collision.(2) An impact crater
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