Beyond Uranus and Neptune deep in the outskirts of the Solar System lies an unknown large object. Irregularities have been occurring between the two blue-sister gas giants and that may be known as Planet X. A satellite-telescope has been launched last week to detect the heat from where this unknown gravitational pull is coming from. Including the Pioneer spacecrafts that are about to pass the orbit of Pluto. For the next six or seven months the satellite-telescope that was launched last week will detect infrared, that is invisible to the human eye, and will take a wide-range survey of the sky. That would then hope to find this object that pulls on Uranus and Neptune including others such as interstellar clouds, asteroids, etc. Astronomers have not had a serious search of the sky since 1930 when the ninth-planet Pluto was discovered.
Astronomers did witness behavior in the orbit of Uranus and that began a search of an outside-unknown planet. They then discovered Neptune and that halted on what they thought was the cause of the irregularity in the orbit of Uranus. William H. Pickering and Percival Lowell, two astronomers, in the late 19th century said that a larger object outside of Neptune had to be the cause of the irregularity of Uranus and not Neptune because it was too small. So they predicted the size and approximates of which lies beyond our Solar System that Lowell called Planet X. A quite time later at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff an Astronomer the name of Clyde W. Harbaugh discovered Pluto. Only Pluto being the fifth of the Earth’s moon they proved that it couldn’t be the cause of Neptune and Uranus orbit behavior.
Dr. Thomas C. Van Flandern, an astronomer at the United Stated Naval Observatory, confirmed that a sing...
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...t happen. The Internet is filled with a sea of hoax and it’s always going to stay that way with people making it up. YouTube is really popular at that. Some think also that the “government” is trying to cover it up
I personally do not believe in Planet X and I think it is the most outrageous claim someone can believe in. Ignorance and gullible is what I call that. I have some friends that think it’s real and really thought a planet called Nibru was going to crash into our planet and we all were going to die. I even had one pointing at Sirius and they were saying it was Nibru. The truth is that we detected something that was outside our Solar System and we thought it was a planet. Now with further evidence Planet X is nonexistent. If there were another planet in our Solar System heading towards Earth, the orbits of our eight planets would be all screwed up anyways.
Knowledge is everything, its what separates humans from animals. It allows us to question the world around us. Another key aspect that separates humans from animals is that each human is unique. We all have different beliefs and ideals that help us explain the infinite amount of questions that this universe has gifted us. In his lecture Christopher Viney goes over the many shifts in the origin of life and how each time there is a shift people start to adept to the new shift. So why are there times that people decide that one thing is right while not even looking at the other point of view?
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The research area of detecting exoplanets, planets outside our own solar system, is a huge area of interest and funding. The importance of being able to detect these planets is they can give us information and an insight into planetary formation, to help the search for ”Earth- like” planets in the habitable zone, and of course the ever-present question of extraterrestrial life. So on order to attempt to gather information about these things we must be have solid detection techniques in place for exoplanets. A few of the important methods shall be discussed here, including the radial velocity method, transit method, direct imaging and gravitational microlensing among others .
In the early seventies, a x-ray source was located in the Constellation Cygnus. The x-ray source couldn't actually be precisely located but was narrowed down to a relatively small area. At this time it was very puzzling for the scientist.
Although Pluto was discovered in 1930, limited information on the distant planet delayed a realistic understanding of its characteristics. Today Pluto remains the only planet that has not been visited by a spacecraft, yet an increasing amount of information is unfolding about this peculiar planet. The uniqueness of Pluto's orbit, rotational relationship with its satellite, spin axis, and light variations all give the planet a certain appeal.
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On the other hand, Pluto is larger than the other 40 known moons in the solar system. There is no scientific reason to arbitrarily distinguish between planets and asteroids based on the sizes of the moons that happen to be present in a planetary system.... ... middle of paper ... ... 78, No. 1, pp. 113-117.
Perhaps one of the most interesting features of our fathomless universe are the planets that are classified as gas giants. Huge, turbulent, and distant, the gas giants are some of the most enigmatic features in our Solar System. I have a personal interest to the gas giants and celestial bodies in general. When I was a child, I was fascinated by our Solar System. I read innumerable books about space, and my interests of outer space had been piqued further by other forms of media. Although I held this interest of space, growing up left me with little time to learn about space, and I lost interest for a while. Taking Earth Science in Milpitas High re-invigorated my interests in the celestial bodies. Using this class, I’m now able to focus on learning more about our colossal universe, in particular, the outer planets.
time, people all believed that all planets circled by the earth. There is no doubt that it must be an
Pluto is located 7.5 billion kilometers from Earth and is only over 2,000 km in diameter. Pluto has been labeled both a planet and a dwarf planet over the years. As said by USA Today, “a planet is a celestial body that: is in orbit around the sun, is round or nearly round, and has "cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit, meaning it is not surrounded by objects of similar size and characteristics.” Pluto only follows two of the three rules of a planet. Pluto crosses over Neptune’s orbit and is near other dwarf planets like it. Even though it breaks one rule it was officially named a dwarf planet in “August 2006”, as stated by the Library of Congress. After this event Pluto still only has one correct classification. Pluto is a planet because
Anything can be posted online whether it is true or not. There is something called “click bait” online which is where there is an interesting bit of information displayed with a hyperlink to access it. Once you click on it you get redirected to an advertisement or to a story that is nothing like the sensationalized headline that you originally clicked on. Credible information is not impossible to find online, you just must know where to start looking for it. I have learned over the years that sources of reliable information online are generally websites that end with .org or .edu. These websites are usually kept up to date by people with intimate knowledge on the topics they
The first person to ever observe the Milky Way was Greek philosopher, Democritus, who said the galaxy may consist of distant stars. In 1610, Galileo Galilei used a telescope to study the Milky Way and came to the conclusion that it was composed of billions and billions of faint stars. Then, in 1750, Thomas Wright c...
Our solar system has eight planets, their moons and satellites, and they are all orbiting the Sun. The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto used to be the ninth planet but IAU changed the definition of planet and Pluto did not meet the standards so it is now a Dwarf planet.
The invited participants were chosen from a diverse group based on his or her interest or knowledge of science and astronomy, work experience, and the ability to easily engage in conversation. Out of...
This telescope is the result of an international collaboration of 17 countries lead by NASA, European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency. It will help us determine the geometry of the universe and enable us to establish whether the universe will expand forever.