center of the universe and that the earth and other planets all revolve around it. This Polish astronomer revolutionized beliefs involving the universe‚ making his thoughts controversial in his time‚ but common knowledge in our own (Westman). Before the time of Copernicus‚ people had extremely different views of the universe. A Greek astronomer named Ptolemy had his own theory of the earth and its relationship with the sun and other planets. Around 140 AD‚ he came up with a system that showed
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simplicity‚ these rules of linear motion were confined between the Earth and the Moon‚ to what Aristotle called the “sublunar realm.” Anything beyond this was referred to as the “translunar realm” which consisted of any celestial body; the Moon‚ Sun‚ planets‚ and all of the Stars. Instead of the obeying the laws of linear motion‚ this realm operated on the bases of uniform circular motion. Each celestial body was set within its own “crystalline sphere” which was unmoved and never changing; the size of
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* Title of the Laboratory: Modeling the orbits of planets and satellites * Objective: Formulate models to inter the shape of orbits of planets and satellites. Collect and organize data for aphelion distances and perihelion distances of objects as they orbit the sun Draw conclusions about Kepler’s first and second laws of motion. * Materials: Piece of cardboard‚ metric ruler‚ sheet of blank‚ sharp pencil or pen‚ white paper‚ four small pieces or tape string (25cm)‚ two push pins * Procedure:
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the tape measure and the grid. 2. Click the radio button for 4 objects and run the simulation until the purple planet (body 2) has made one complete orbit (one year). 3. After the first orbit (year)‚ turn off the traces (show traces box) and watch another orbit (year) of the purple planet (body 2). Question One: Is blue moon (body 3) circling the yellow sun (body 1) or the purple planet (body 2)? Explain your answer. Using the trojan asteroids setting it looks like all 3 bodys are orbiting the
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The Universe and Our Galaxies The Universe and Our Galaxies Examples of Elliptical (Messier 87 ) and Spiral Galaxies (NGC 3559) Examples of Elliptical (Messier 87 ) and Spiral Galaxies (NGC 3559) Edwin Hubble was one of the first people to actually realise what a galaxy is‚ the measurement of the “Hubble Tuning Fork” Classification scheme shows how round or rightly wound their “arms” are. E0 means that an elliptical galaxy is extremely round‚ whilst E7 is flat. However not all galaxies
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Copernicus revolution. It is called this because his work completely changed how people saw the universe and the earths place within it. People’s view of the earth went from a stationary focal point in the universe to a planet that orbits the sun: from the center of everything to just another planet that orbits the sun. Although it took a while people eventually accepted his research and findings as the new truth about the earth and the
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more like a giant planet like Jupiter instead of a bright star like the sun. Kevin Luhman‚ an associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University‚ University Park‚ Pa.‚ and a researcher in Penn State’s Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds states that these duo of stars are only 6.5 light years away. So close that television transmissions that was sent up in 2006 are arriving there now. These new starts will be a great place to search for new planets because they are
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of Uranus concluded that Galileo and Flamsteed had observed similar objects a century ago. Later in his career‚ Fredrick discovered two of Uranus’s moons‚ as well as two moons around the planet Saturn. In addition‚ he was also the first to suggest that nebulae consist of stars. With the new discovery of the planet Uranus‚ the solar system had just grown bigger introducing many new possibilities of space observation. Even though at the beginning‚ Fredrick did not have the tools to explore the universe
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Planet of the Apes deals with a great number of issues that come up in everyday society. If one looks closely at the story it is very easy to realize that Planet of the Apes is not at all about apes‚ but truly about mankind. It is a story about the human condition‚ and the way humans interact with their natural environment. It is a story about the dangers of religion‚ and even more powerfully a warning about the dangers of a politically active church. Planet of the Apes is a political allegory
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creature from asteroid B-612. One day a seed arrives on his planet and blooms into a beautiful flower. Though the flower is lovely‚ it is vain and irritates the Prince. Finally he leaves his planet‚ to escape the flower. After visiting several asteroids‚ the Little Prince reaches Earth‚ where he meets the narrator in the Sahara Desert. Antagonist The problem‚ or antagonist‚ of the Little Prince is his thirst for answers. He visits many planets and meets many people‚ whom he questions about life. In
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