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    Planet 9 Research Paper

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    found in our solar system is potentially up to some evil ways. Astrophysicists are tracking its orbit and claiming that its odd behaviour may eventually have a negative impact on Earth. PLANET 9 MAY HAVE SOME EVIL TENDENCIES According to a University of Louisiana astrophysics professor‚ Planet 9 and it’s unusual orbit may have been the cause of past extinctions. Professor Daniel Whitmire claims the ice planet will turn evil by hurling space rocks towards Earth. It’s 20‚000-year solar orbit will eventually

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    Research Paper On Uranus

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    3.3. Moons of Uranus 3.3.1 Introduction Uranus‚ the seventh planet of the Solar System‚ has 27 known moons. Uranus’s moons are divided into three groups: thirteen inner moons‚ five major moons‚ and nine irregular moons. The inner moons are small dark bodies that share common properties and origins with the Uranus’s rings‚ the five major moons (Miranda‚ Ariel‚ Umbriel‚ Titania‚ and Oberon) are massive enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium. They range in diameter from 472 km for Miranda

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    Astr100 Midterm Studyguide

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    time of year during which a solar or lunar eclipse is possible Types of Lunar Eclipses * Penumbral Lunar Eclipse: an eclipse where the moon passes through the earth’s penumbra‚ but not the umbra; last occurred 2/9/09 * Total lunar eclipse: an eclipse when the moon is completely in the earth’s umbra for a portion of the eclipse; last occurred 2/22/08 * Partial lunar eclipse: an eclipse when only a portion of the moon passes through the earth’s umbra Solar Eclipses * An eclipse of

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    The Sun Research Paper

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    without sunlight‚ then animals‚ thus the extinction of humanity. It’s best you learn about the thing that keeps us alive‚ The Sun. Mass The Sun is by far the largest celestial body in our solar system. It contains more than 99.8% of the total mass of the solar system‚ and Jupiter contains most of the rest. About one million Earths could fit inside it. The Sun is just an ordinary star‚ and that’s true because there are many others similar to it but there are smaller stars than

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    astro quiz

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    According to our present theory of solar system formation‚ which of the following objects now reside quite far from the place where they formed originally? Oort cloud comets Question 5 What is the primary reason that astronomers suspect that some jovian moons were captured into their current orbits? Some moons have orbits that are "backwards" (compared to their planet’s rotation) or highly inclined to their planet’s equator. Question 6 The region of our solar system between Mercury and Mars has very

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    Cassini Target: F-ring Since ancient times‚ man has pondered over the great enigma about how our universe was formed. In earlier times we have answered this question through creationism‚ but with our burgeoning thirst of knowledge‚ we quench this thirst with science. Although we have a superior understanding of how our universe was formed‚ this question still remains. By sending Cassini to the f-ring of Saturn we can observe how planets form and interact with other matter in space‚ determine the

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    The Kuiper Belt

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    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 main area of the solar system‚ i.e. out past Pluto (Jewitt "The Kuiper Belt").

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    New Horizons Research Paper

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    into orbit‚ so the ships must perform years of orbit adjustment to match position and velocity with the tiniest worlds. Power is also a problem.  Located very far from the Sun‚ comets‚ outer planets‚ and most asteroids receive very little solar energy. Solar arrays must be very large to gather the little sunlight‚ like those of Rosetta‚ Dawn‚ and Juno; or else spacecraft must carry radioisotope thermoelectric generators. The successes of missions like Voyager‚ Pioneer‚ Galileo‚ Cassini-Huygens‚

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    Jupiter Research Paper

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    \section{Composition of Jupiter} Jupiter is largest planet in our solar system‚ it has got four planet size moons‚ when Galileo discovered Jupiter’s four large moons: Io‚ Europa‚ Ganymede and Callisto‚ now known as the Galilean moons.Jupiter resembles a star in composition. In fact‚ if it had been about eighty times more massive‚ it would have become a star rather than a planet. Jupiter has got a count of total moon of 49. Jupiter unlike wise the Earth does not have a solid surface. In Jupiter‚ clouds

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