system is a dwarf planet named Pluto. The existence of the unknown planet was first proposed by astronomer Percival Lowell in 1905‚ who thought that the wobbles in the orbit of Neptune and Uranus were probably caused by the gravitational pull of an unknown planet. After calculating the approximate location‚ he looked for more than a decade without any success. About 25 years later‚ it was discovered by an American astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh. The surface temperature of the planet is estimated to
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Culler‚ J. (2011‚ December 7). Kepler A search for Habitable Planets. Retrieved from NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepscicon-briefing.html Jones‚ J. (2011‚ May 1). Nanomaterials Transforms Hairstyling Tools. Retrieved from NASA: http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2010/cg_5.html Wilson‚ J. (2011‚ August 25). About NASA. Retrieved from NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/what_does_nasa_do.html Living On Another Planet | Kepler 22-b | | Jessica Loyd | 11/1/2012 | For my
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know that our solar system has a total of eight planets‚ after they decided Pluto wasn’t a planet it was then know to be a dwarf planet. What if there are other planets in our solar system? With advanced technology they did it‚ they found another planet that’s in our solar system‚ but it’s not proven yet. The high tech computers detect a planet but it has still not been seen by the human eye. So what this means is the the planet isn’t officially a planet until it has been seen by a human for it to be
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is "Is there life on other planets?" Since the first famously documented UFO sighting in 1947‚ the idea of extra-terrestrial life has been debated almost non-stop. The subject has inspired many TV programs‚ such as The X-Files‚ and films (Mars Attacks‚ Independence Day‚ and the Men in Black films to name but a few). Scientists have come up with many new ideas and ways of trying to either prove or disprove the existence of life elsewhere. Mars is a very similar planet to earth in relation to size
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foreseeable future‚ this planet is the only home we’ve got. It would be useful to know‚ then‚ whether it will continue to be habitable. Sometimes contemplating the future just means wondering whether it will snow tomorrow‚ or whether it will be a hot summer this year. We can think bigger‚ though. What will the climate be like a hundred years from now‚ or a thousand or a million? Will the greenhouse gases in our atmosphere ever reach an upper limit and start to diminish? Will our planet ultimately end up
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Once known as the ninth planet of the solar system‚ Pluto is now the second-largest dwarf planet. Composed primarily of ice and rock‚ Pluto took part of our Solar System for 76 years. It was discovered on January 23‚ 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. Tombaugh was an American astronomer who worked at the Lowell Obeservatory. Tombaugh had been working on a project when he came across a moving object in photographs he had taken of the celestial sky. After observing a lower quality picture taken of the mysterious
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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. The blue moon is circling both the puple plane and the yellow sun. It is circling the purple planet‚ while the purple planet is circling around the sun. Therefore
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Life on Other Planets Life on other planets‚ Is there another titan planet out there that harbors life? Scientist have found two such planets in a neighboring but distant Solar System. Which planets are habitable and is there already life there or basically in general‚ “Is there life in outer space?” That is the question and debate among astrologists and scientist alike about this discovery of two planets that orbit the red dwarf star of Gliese 581 (Gliese 581c.eu). The fascination of intelligent
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found more and more ‘super-Earths’‚ which is a term used for an extrasolar planet that has a mass higher than planet Earth’s but below the mass of the solar systems’ gas giants. In some cases‚ these super-Earths contain water as well as potential living support. In 2011‚ fifty new planets were found. Sixteen of them are super-Earths. As the article states‚ these planets were found by a High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher – HARPS for short. This instrument has found two-thirds of known
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A Potentially Habitable Planet? A team of astronomers led by Steven Vogt of the University of California‚ and Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington have found a rocky earth-sized planet that might be habitable (Haghighipour‚ Nader 2010). The new exoplanet called Gliese 581g orbits the red dwarf star Gliese 581 in the constellation Libra and it is the sixth planet that the astronomers have found around its star. Gliese 581g is about 20 light years away‚ which is roughly 117.5 trillion
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