happening. The thing is‚ no one is really sure what causes gravity‚ but the effects have been studied by many physicists and astronomers. Three of the more obvious effects of gravity are things falling down‚ weight‚ and the the moon and planets staying in their orbits. Things fall down. People have generally grown to accept that if one lets go of one ’s prized and valuable textbook when walking through a mud puddle‚ the book will invariably end up in the puddle and therefore be
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A Comparison of the Planets in the Sol System Shaun J. Sci350 December 19‚ 2004 Introduction Beginning Mercury‚ this paper will compare the nine planets and major moons of our solar system and describe their individual characteristics. At the end of this discussion‚ the habitability factor of these different worlds will be discussed as compared to that of the Earth ’s. A Brief History of the Sol System By radiocarbon dating meteorites‚ we know that roughly 4.6 billion
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First-Past-The-Post system. Discuss. When defining elections‚ Lynch (2004: 33) states that it is ‘at the heart of the democratic process.’ The main political activity for most people is to vote in an election. Through electoral process‚ governments are being chosen and elected before holding certain position in the office. To conduct such activity‚ an electoral system is needed. There are two main electoral systems to discuss‚ first is the AMS (Additional Member System) and second is FPTP
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The Origin of the Solar System A cloud of interstellar gas and/or dust (the "solar nebula") is disturbed and collapses under its own gravity. The disturbance could be‚ for example‚ the shock wave from a nearby supernova. As the cloud collapses‚ it heats up and compresses in the center. It heats enough for the dust to vaporize. The initial collapse is supposed to take less than 100‚000 years. The center compresses enough to become a protostar and the rest of the gas orbits/flows around it
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Lesson 1: Our Solar System What makes up our solar system? When we think of the solar system most of us think of eight planets orbiting around the sun. However‚ the solar system is a lot more complicated‚ larger and exciting than this simple description. The solar system is a gravitationally bound system with all the objects in this system revolving around the sun. The eight planets revolving around the sun are: Mercury‚ Venus‚ Earth‚ Mars‚ Jupitar‚ Saturn‚ Neputune‚ Uranus and Pluto. However‚ the
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The Formation of the Solar System is one of the oldest problems in science. There have been many theories on how the Solar System formed‚ but there is only one theory that has been accepted. That would be the nebular theory. Also known as the nebular hypothesis and solar nebula hypothesis. The nebular hypothesis is a model that explains the evolution of the Solar System. Also‚ the nebular hypothesis is the most accepted model in the field of cosmogony. This model explains subjectively many features
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The Solar System The majority of the solar system is made up of the sun and all of the planets that orbit it. There are also moons‚ comets‚ asteroids‚ dust‚ gas‚ and dwarf planets. The sun makes up about 98 percent of our solar system. Because of the suns large mas it pulls every thing in the solar system towards it. The planets orbit around the sun because of the sun pulling it towards it and the planets trying to fly outer space at the same time‚ which balances it out. It was once believed that
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THE SOLAR SYSTEM T The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it‚ all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system’s mass (well over 99%) is in the Sun. Of the many objects that orbit the Sun‚ most of the mass is contained within eight relatively solitary planets whose orbits are almost circular and lie within a nearly flat disc called the ecliptic
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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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AQUA-MARIE Solar System Nebular Hypothesis. According to the nebular hypothesis‚ these clouds collapsed from some kind of turbulence that caused it to heat up and eventually turn into a star. My understanding of the origin and evolution of the solar system is still very limited. Development is made by pushing through the scientific process of hypothesis‚ prediction‚ measurement‚ theory‚ and hypothesis. However‚ there is still a lot of guesswork to be tested before we can really talk about
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