The Kuiper Belt The Kuiper Belt is a thick ecliptic band which contains over 200 million small‚ icy objects. These objects‚ known as the Kuiper Belt Objects or trans- Neptunians‚ were discovered in 1992 by Jewitt and Lu. The first Kuiper Belt Object discovered in 1992‚ is QB1 (1992) and is 150 miles wide. The Kuiper Belt is about 30 AU to 50 AU away from the Sun. The Kuiper Belt is very important because of two specific things; the first being‚ Kuiper Belt Objects are remnants from the earliest
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The objects in the asteroid belts that are contained within the Solar System affect life on Earth today. These asteroid belts are the main asteroid belt and‚ the Kuiper Belt. Since these belts contain so many objects‚ there is diversity present within the objects. The asteroid belts consist of many categories of asteroids‚ the sizes of which‚ can vary greatly‚ ranging from a few meters to miles long. However‚ the mass of all discovered asteroids is still less than Earth’s mass. This is logical since
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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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(so dwarf stars are excluded) and it must be massive enough to have collapsed to a more or less spherical shape (which excludes comets‚ and most of the asteroids). These criteria would admit a few of the larger asteroids and probably some of the Kuiper belt objects as well‚ but adding a requirement for a planet to have a minimum diameter of 1‚000 km would remove the larger asteroids from contention while retaining Pluto. Below are some brief reasons as to why Pluto may not be considered a planet with
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Pluto Not a Planet‚ Astronomers Rule Pluto has been voted off the island. The distant‚ ice-covered world is no longer a true planet‚ according to a new definition of the term voted on by scientists today "Whoa! Pluto’s dead‚" said astronomer Mike Brown‚ of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena‚ as he watched a Webcast of the vote. "There are finally‚ officially‚ eight planets in the solar system." In a move that’s already generating controversy and will force textbooks to be rewritten
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Analyzing Written Essays WK2 ENG 101 For my first analysis‚ I chose the Lucy Stone Biography “A Soul as Free as the Air”‚ which is an Expository Essay that gives examples‚ facts‚ written in a fair and impartial way which can be called non-biased. Also the writer uses the third person for the point of view. The Thesis Statement‚ which is one of four characters of an expository essay‚ caught my attention right away‚ and gave me a bit of insight on what this essay was about before I started reading
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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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with a ghostly white tail. • The term comet derived from the Greek word “aster kometes”‚ which means long-haired star. • Composed of ice‚ frozen gases (ammonia‚ methane‚ Carbon dioxide‚ and other organic compounds. Comets…where they come from? Kuiper Belt - Similar to asteroid but found beyond Neptune. Oort Cloud – Discovered in 1950 by Jan Oort‚ found beyond Pluto. Movement of Comets • The red circle represents the orbit of one planet. Although the comet in the animation is orbiting (blue)
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Following the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846‚ there was considerable speculation that another planet might exist beyond its orbit. The search began in the mid-19th century and culminated at the start of the 20th with Percival Lowell’s quest for Planet X. Lowell proposed the Planet X hypothesis to explain apparent discrepancies in the orbits of the gas giants‚ particularly Uranus and Neptune‚[1] speculating that the gravity of a large unseen ninth planet could have perturbed Uranus enough
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Some time has passed and it was almost time for Proserpina to return to the underworld with Pluto. Ceres was trying to make the best of the little time she had with her daughter‚ but she recently fell ill due to weather conditions. Every morning they would sit down at the table and take about what they had planned for today and then they would go out into the garden and plant/pick out what they needed. But this morning the storm had not blown over‚ so they couldn’t do anything. Proserpina came inside
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