...New Planet Jane Doe Some University New Planet Coming into this technologically and scientifically-advanced time has gradually become a constructive and exciting time for scientists and the rest of humankind. In addition to the new technology that has come about, over time there’s no denying that we have uncovered an increasing number of planetary bodies; be it stars and or planets that could possibly sustain life or not at all. Since 2005, scientists have found a vast amount of “super-Earths” which is defined as “…a planet with a mass between 1 and 10 times that of Earth, but less than the mass of the solar systems giant gas planets such as Saturn, Neptune and Jupiter (Live Science, 2011). In some cases the super-Earths are surrounded by water which could verify the likelihood of life forms inhabiting these areas, this information excites astronomers due to the chance that the super-Earths could be fit for the habitation of life in contrast to the gas giants. The search for these Earth-like planets continues to be one of the most sought after missions in the world with new findings every-day in the making, as stated by Keck Observatory, scientists from the Universities of California, Berkeley and Hawaii have come together and mathematically came to the conclusion that 20% of the Sun-like stars in our galaxy have Earth-sized planets that could in fact contain life (Keck Observatory, 2013). The article goes on to state that upon coming to this assumption from the...
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...Evidence of New Planet For years, we have known only about the 8 planets in our solar system, well 9 if you are like me and are still counting our most missed Pluto. These planets have been there for years and will be there for more years to come. However, new findings have discovered evidence of the forming of a planet approximately 335 light-years from Earth in a star. This discovery is a huge one, for that the new planet is said to grow at least three sizes the planet Jupiter. The group of astronomers that made such discovery is an international team led by Clemson University in California. These astronomers found the planet orbiting the star named HD 100546. However, what makes the scientists believe this is in fact a new planet? The reason is that, the team found carbon-monoxide emission that is the leading fact of the creation of a planet and because new studies have confirmed activity around the HD 100546 star. This new finding is a big to all astronomers for that this would allow them to test their theories in terms of the creation of solar systems, such as our very own. According to the article, since the proximity of this new forming planet is closer than other disk systems, it is easier to study in detail the process of formation. Meaning we would be able to have front role seats to such a fascinating event, at least hopefully for part of our lifetime. (Clemson University, 2014). Scientists excitedly state that once they understand what is going on in terms...
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...(Reuters) - An Anglo-German team of astronomers has discovered a new planet orbiting a nearby sun at just the right distance for an Earth-like climate that could support life. The team actually found three new planets orbiting the star 44 light years away, but only one of them is in the so-called Goldilocks Zone, the band around a sun where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist. "The star HD 40307 is a perfectly quiet old dwarf star, so there is no reason why such a planet could not sustain an Earth-like climate," said Guillem Angla-Escude from Germany's University of Goettingen, who led the research with Mikko Tuomi at the University of Hertfordshire in Britain. The planet has a mass at least seven times that of Earth but it orbits at about the same distance from its sun, meaning it receives a similar amount of solar energy as Earth gets. More than 800 planets have been discovered outside our solar system since the first was detected in the early 1990s, but only a handful of those have been in the habitable zone. Even more rare are planets in the zone that rotate, as this one does, to create a day-time and night-time, which increases the chance of an Earth-like environment. Those that don't spin are said to be tidally locked, with one half in constant darkness. "This is the closest one to Earth in a habitable zone that is not tidally locked," University of Hertfordshire astronomer Hugh Jones told Reuters. "Just as Goldilocks...
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...9/9/2012 Managerial Appls of Info Tech Prof. Tahereh Daneshi Course Project Proposal Terraforming Domes and the use of Planet Cracker Mining Vessels We live in a world where one of the main threats to our society is diminishing resources and the inevitability of over population. Humans and animals alike multiply at an alarming rate and with the arrivals of new people to this planet there is a need for aggressive expansion for houses, apartments and retail stores. With new expansion comes the need for new oil and gas refineries and nuclear power plant to support the land that will soon be developed. Human civilization has been consuming natural resources at an exponential rate and the threat that we will soon run out is on the back of our minds. With new developments will come new technology and the need to improve on what we currently have. Our planet can only offer us so much and there is still much to be discovered in outer space. There are hundreds of planets that have the ability to sustain life providing certain conditions are met. NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration have been in charge of the space program for many years. While they have released this power to the private sector and given those with the resources a chance to go where they have not offers a potential solution. Terraforming (literally, “Earth-shaping”) of a planet, moon, or other body is the process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to...
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...In mid July, NASA’s New Horizons probe made its flyby of Pluto following its years-long approach, and collected a lot of amazing data--some of which is still being transmitted--to further our scientific advance and our understanding of the outer reaches of our solar system. But Pluto was only one of the sights in the New Horizons mission. Now NASA’s probe hurdles past Pluto in order to explore what lies beyond it in the Kuiper Belt. BEYOND PLUTO A recent Washington Post article detailed what New Horizons might discover next. According to the Scott Sheppard, an astronomer of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, astronomers have detected 1,500 icy bodies past Pluto, and many of these bodies could be potential planets. Most of them will probably...
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...of 100 cores of rupees. In this report, we will first analyze whether you have the potential to realize this dream in your life astrologically as per your natal chart. We will also analyze the astrological signatures for next 5 years w.r.t your natal chart and transit of each planet through your natal chart, to capture the potential ups and downs in your business during next 5 years. A) Basic Astrological Parameters: Your Birth Chart: The important parameters in your birth chart: Your Ascendant: Aquarius Your Sun-Sign: Libra Your Moon-Sign: Gemini Exalted Planet: Rahu & Ketu Debilitated Planet: Sun Retrograde Planet: Saturn Natal status of each of the planets in your chart: We have listed above the natal promise of all the 9 Vedic planets in the chart based on their status in the chart. There are likely to be lot of contradictions about their significance in different aspects of life. The same planet may be beneficial for a particular aspect in one’s life by it’s house location but it can be inauspicious for the same aspects in life because of the lordship of houses in the chart. One planet can be beneficial for a particular aspect in life and can promise great success and at the same time another planet can be most inauspicious and promise complete failure for...
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...those objects that orbit the Sun directly, the largest eight are the planets, with the remainder being significantly smaller objects, such as dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies such as comets and asteroids. *The Planets of the Solar system and their name meanings Mercury- the messenger god Venus- god of love Earth- is the son of Gaia goddess of universe Mars- god of war Jupiter- god of lightning Saturn- god of agriculture Uranus- god of light Neptune- god of the sea Pluto- god of death Mercury is the smallest and closest to the Sun of the eight planets in the Solar System, with an orbital period of about 88 Earth days. Seen from Earth, it appears to move around its orbit in about 116 days, which is much faster than any other planet in the Solar System. It has no known natural satellites. The planet is named after the Roman deity Mercury, the messenger to the gods. Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It has no natural satellite. It is named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows. Because Venus is an inferior planet from Earth, it never appears to venture far from the Sun. Earth is the third planet from the Sun, the densest planet in the Solar System, the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets, and the only astronomical object known to accommodate life. Although...
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...Report 2 Living on Other Planets Introduction: * How would facilities function * How would they get supplies * How would people get to the locations The focus of colonization is a topic that has brought up several debates on how it could be possible. But, the first step towards that effort is to find a reason to migrate ourselves to other planets. Different minerals and precious metals from the surfaces of alien celestials are vital to the importance of any specific colonization effort. The industrial implications of a solid core of functional work environment for employees and civilian presences populating the platforms are essential. Facilities will consist of domed structures contained a self-sustained atmosphere and environment. Simulated weather for each of the seasons as well as integrated day and night cycles would keep the habitants on a routine familiar to them of our own home planet. This would include housing opportunities for employees to bring their families while honoring their agreed upon contract terms. Each Dome is specifically engineered and conditioned for their celestial home. There in, being resistant to the unique external environmental issues that would come from any given body’s location. Initial supplies for the project will be flown in prior to the colonization by unmanned crafted and landed carefully on the alien surface. Pioneer crews will depart with the final shipment and begin assembly of the primary dome structure. Once the...
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...Season and the planets, that’s been a question that’s has limited answers because of the limited research. In this essay we will discuss the common misconceptions that students have when understand the seasons of the earth, Along with identifying the other planets and if they have season or not. Also we will explain the aphelion, the perihelion and how it affects planet seasons. There are few common misconceptions that students think are true regarding the reasons for seasons on earth. Students usually believe that because of the earth’s distance and its orbits around the sun causes the seasons. That is because students believe that the earth is in an elongated elliptical path that causes the season depending on the distance. When all actuality the sun is in an orbit, as well as an elliptical path is an almost perfect circle. Another misconception is the earth is either far or close to the sun at various points of the path of orbit, in fact the earth stays in alignment almost constantly all year. The sun all around stays in the heat range of 5,778 Kelvin, there are no season on the sun since it is a star. The moon on other hand has various temperatures. During daylight the moons temperature grows to 253 degrees, and when its night the moon reaches -387 degrees. Mercury is in a tilt of an axis of zero. This means that there’s no seasonal type on the plant mercury. Mercury also as no atmosphere, that means that the weather changes don’t look like regular seasonal changes but...
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...Imagine this scenario set in the future. We know that a decently large rogue planet will be crashing into Earth in a certain number of years and we cannot do anything to stop this from happening. However, we do have the ability to terraform a planet. If we could also move humanity to either Mars or Venus, which one should we go for and why? Hi Jessica! Interesting question. To start off, I will define what terraforming is for those who do not know what it means. Terraforming refers to the hypothetical process of modifying a planet or other heavenly body in order to make it habitable by humans. This outcome can be achieved by changing the atmosphere’s competition, the body’s temperature, the surface topography or the planet’s ecology. In order for terraforming to be successful and the planet to be able to sustain life, NASA has defined that such a body must have extended regions of liquid water, favourable living conditions and enough energy sources to sustain metabolism (). Mars is generally understood to be the planet that is closest to fulfilling these criteria because in many respects it is the most Earth-like planet in the Solar System(). It is generally accepted by scientists that Mars once had an Earth-like characteristic including a thicker atmosphere and abundant sources of water. These characteristics have diminished over the course of hundreds of millions of years due to carbon dioxide/carbonates reactions, a lack of magnetosphere and numerous asteroid impacts. The...
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...People who don’t believe in aliens are more crazy than the ones that do believe in aliens. All a planet needs is water for there to be life but if the conditions are even better there can be TONS of life. In our solar system there is 8 planets with 1 that has life, which is us. There is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets estimated in the universe. Supposedly the universe is ever expanding and if this were to be true then the probability of aliens is VERY likely and almost certain. Already Astronomers have found about 4 planets almost identical to earth out in deep space and if we could go there it would probably have some sort of life. The evidence we have is harsh but there is some to possibly help. In 1977 a signal was detected by a astronomy machine that could hear things deep into space and surprised them so much they wrote (wow!) on the paper. The...
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...These gasses rotate around the planet quickly, creating winds up to 220 miles per hour in the upper atmosphere, but closer to the surface, wind speeds are similar to that on Earth, although the atmospheric pressure on Venus is quite a bit higher than on Earth -- so high that much of the carbon dioxide on Venus is no longer a gas, but a fluid that forms a sort of "sea" on the planet's surface. The large amounts of carbon dioxide have created a runaway greenhouse effect that brings surface temperatures up as high as 873 degrees Fahrenheit, making Venus the hottest planet in the Solar System, despite the fact that Mercury is closer to the Sun and that much of the Sun's heat and light fail to make it through the thick Venusian atmosphere. Due to this thick atmospheric cover, the temperature on Venus changes very little throughout the year or between day and...
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...The Almagest was one of the most influential scientific texts of all time. It contains 13 books, each containing different astronomical information. Book I contains an outline of Aristotle's cosmology, his belief of the origin and development of the universe. Book II covers his daily observation of the sky. Book III covers the length of the year and the position of the sun. Book IV and V cover the Moon and the distance and sizes of the sun moon and earth. Book VI covers lunar and solar eclipses. Book VII and VIII cover the motion of stars, the constellations, and a star brightness scale. Book IX addresses the issues with creating models for the five closest planets. Book X covers the motion of Venus and Mars. Book XI covers the motion of Jupiter and Saturn. Book XII covers the planets retrograde motion. Book XIII covers motion on...
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...This is what I found out about the theories behind the formation of the moon and they are quite interesting. One theory can be considered is the concept of “captured moon”. This theory states that the Moon was formed somewhere else and was later “captured” by earth. Any leftover planetesimals that lose their orbital energy on their original orbit around the sun can be captured by a planet into their planetary orbit. However in order for it to loose enough orbital energy to be pulled into the planet’s gravitational field, an extended atmosphere consisting of dense gas should exist so that friction causes loss in energy of the body. These kind of moons are usually identified by either a rotation opposite to that of the planet or a large inclination to the planet’s equator. This theory explains the difference in densities of earth and moon. However it can be negated since the moon is relatively large compared to the size of Earth, it would have released after some time as the Earth would not have had enough energy to contain it in its gravitational field. Examples of such captured moons in our solar system are Triton of Neptune and Phobos and Deimos of Mars....
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...my diary the year 2061 and the world won’t be the same...And even though I‘m not considiring the fact that I will be almost seventy year old lady,I still can not picture the world which is unavoidably coming. I know that there is a millions of people who would disagree with me,but I’m not really optimistic about the future.There is so much evil in the world.I litterally can see how the world is falling apart in our hands.It seems like those disasters that are ruining our planet aren’t about to stop.Plus the people are so mean to each other.You can barely see a someone giving a hand to an other.The world is just full of hate and anger.If you picture this rissing amount of these disasters,hate,corruption,discrimination and all those bad things that are going on now,how will it be in fifty years ? On the other hand a lot of people believe that the world WILL be a better place.We still can put our hopes in to the scientists.Who can find some way to improve the current state of the world.They can find some new cures or ways how to dispose a waste without leaking it into the sea. To sum things up I’m this kind of a person (maybe a crazy one ) who believes in the potential end of the world in 2012 not in the cause of that some huge asteroid will hit the Earth or that the magnetic poles will turn over.But I really support the teorie that the year 2012 will be „the start“ of the end and since now on the Earth will only get worse and...
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