Astronomy Final Paper Clyde Tombaugh is not exactly a household name even though he discovered something that each and every one of us has learned about. He is accredited with the discovery of the now ex- planet Pluto. Clyde was born in Streator‚ Illinois February 4‚ 1907. At a young age his family moved to Kansas to start their own farm. Clyde had planned on going away to college the fall after moving to Kansas‚ but this was all put on hold when a hailstorm had ruined his families’ entire crop
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Body Paragraph 1: Basic Facts Eigth and last planet in the solar system Mean density (kg/m3):(Neptune)1‚638 (Earth) 5‚514 (Neptune/Earth Ratio) 0.297 Neptune‚ like Uranus‚ is one of the two outer planets known as an "ice giant." Made up of more ices than Jupiter and Saturn‚ the chilly body almost seems to be in a class by itself. Body Paragraph 2: Atmosphere Neptune’s atmosphere is made up predominately of hydrogen and helium‚ with some methane. The methane is part of what gives Neptune
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located farther from the Sun than Pluto is‚ at 44 astronomical units. The object‚ later known as 1992 QB1‚ was discovered in 1992. One of the largest‚ and first‚ KBO’s is Pluto. Pluto is a dwarf planet that was discovered in 1930. Pluto isn’t very large as it is only about half as wide as the United States. Ordinarily‚ the days on Pluto take about 6.5 days on Earth and‚ it takes about 248 years to fully orbit the Sun. Another KBO found to be 10% larger than Pluto was named Eris. Considering it is
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Dear Candidate‚ Write your name‚ roll number‚ and centre in capital letters in the boxes above. You will be given a test booklet and plain sheets in the examination hall. The test booklet has Part-A General Paper and Part-B Subject Specilsation. Answer any one subject in Part-B Use blue or black ball pen. Pencil may be used for graphs and diagrams only. Answer all questions. Multiple choice questions have four alternatives A or B or C or D. Put a (√) mark to the appropriate answer in the
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Michael E. Brown was born on June 5th‚ 1965. He is a famous astronomer known for his work on distant objects (beyond Neptune) orbiting the sun. His biggest achievement is the discovery of the dwarf planet Eris‚ which is larger than Pluto. Personal Life and Career Mike Brown is from Huntsville‚ Alabama. He studied at the Virgil I. Grissom High School from which he graduated in 1983. In 1987‚ he earned his Bachelor of Arts in physics from Princeton University and he was also a member of the Princeton
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10. Pluto-Sized Eris Rocks Solar System Discovery of Eris in 2005 by Mike Brown‚ a minor body that is 27 percent bigger than Pluto. Eris had trumped Pluto and become the 9th largest body known to orbit the sun. The finding became the trigger that changed the face of our solar system‚ defining the planets and adding Pluto to a growing family of dwarf planets in 2006 by International Astronomical Union (IAU) 9. T. rex Tissue Dug from Bone the discovery of what appeared to be soft tissues - blood
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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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The Importance of Classroom Management An effective classroom management plan is the key to becoming an effective teacher‚ as well as making sure that is learning going on in the classroom. (Wong‚ Wong‚ Rogers‚ & Brooks‚ 2012) All classrooms should have an effective teacher to teach the students. An effective classroom management plan will also help the teacher keep the classroom under control and it helps the students focus better. An effective classroom management plan will help keep the teachers
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sun. "NASA planned a Monday press conference to offer more details about Sedna‚ a planetoid between 800 miles and 1‚100 miles in diameter‚ or about three-quarters the size of Pluto. Named for the Inuit goddess who created the sea creatures of the Arctic‚ Sedna lies more than three times farther from the sun than Pluto. It was discovered in November. "The sun appears so small from that distance that you could completely block it out with the head of a pin‚" said Mike Brown‚ an
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The Size of the Solar System Overview • Become familiar with the scale of the planets vs. their distances. • Get an overview of the solar system. Introduction It is easy to flip to the index of an astronomy textbook to discover that‚ say‚ the Sun lies 150 million kilometers away from Earth. It is far more difficult (if not impossible)‚ however‚ to picture this distance in the human mind. In this exercise‚ we will learn to access the often unpalatable distances encountered in astronomy
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