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The scale size of Jupiter was found by dividing its diameter in kilometers, which is 142,984, by the Sun’s diameter ( 1,391,900 km ). The calculated total is 0.1027 and then was multiplied by 14cm with a total of 1.44cm. The distance was calculated by dividing Jupiter’s actual distance ( 778,140,000 km ) by its actual diameter ( 142,984 km ) and then multiplied by 1.44 cm. The result of the calculation is 7,836.69cm or 0.0487 miles. With the distance figured out, we were able to determine how far away to place the planet from the Sun. Given the information we have, a map of the campus, and some discussion with the Jupiterian Moon group, we were able to determine the best location for our planet would be in Brown Hall. Within Brown Hall, we …show more content…

Lighter elements, such as hydrogen and helium were swept away from areas closer to the sun by solar wind, yet further out from the sun, beyond the frost line, these elements were able to condense and eventually, start forming the gas giants. This would not be possible without the formation of Jupiter's rocky core. The core accretion model suggests that in order for a planet to develop, it must first accumulate a core, and then the gravity from this core, the more massive it is the more gravity it possesses, will enable it to acquire the lighter elements, such as hydrogen and helium. A gas giant’s core must reach around fifteen times the size of the Earth’s mass in order to catch gaseous elements into its gravitational field. This is why our planet, which is not very massive in comparison to Jupiter, uses these elements to form an atmosphere, rather than the actual surface. Moving out from the core, which is primarily made of liquid, metallic hydrogen, we see a gradual transition to a more gaseous form of hydrogen and some helium, with hydrogen forming around ninety percent of the atmosphere and helium forming the other ten percent …show more content…

Galileo discovered that Jupiter had four large moons which were, Europa, Callisto, Ganymede, and Lo. They were then referred to as the Galilean moons. Fast forwarding to the 1970's and Jupiter was had the Pioneer 10 spaceship fly by it in 1973. After that the spacecraft Galileo orbited Jupiter for eight years. It was later discovered that Jupiter did not have a solid surface, and the gas giant had denser gas below. Later discovered that the different colors seen on Jupiter is due to the chemicals that react to the air. Jupiter is also radiating more heat than receiving from the sun this is due to how big the planet is, and the core having a temperature around 20,000 K .
In 2003 it was discovered to have around 23 moons orbiting Jupiter. In 2011 an orbiter was launched in 2011 and arrived at Jupiter in 2016. This was launched to “understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter”. This will bring new discoveries of “understanding the planetary systems being discovered around other stars”. Also research if there is water under the dense gas. Currently the plan is for Juno, one of the spacecraft sent to orbit Jupiter, to complete it's mission and finish its data collection of

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When Jupiter was told he had to go out on the limb he was very hesitant (Poe 235). He was scared that he would fall because it was rotting and wasn’t that stable. Legrand threatened Jupiter that if he didn’t go up the tree that he would crack his head with the shovel and of course Jupiter listened to this and he climbed up the tree. Even though the narrator and Legrand were annoyed and angry with Jupiter he remained loyal and listened to Legrand.

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Autumn Stern Galileo Trial Summary + Copernicus Write Up In the early 17th century, there was no doubt that the Catholic church held extreme power throughout Europe. They also held to the geocentric theory (all planets, heavenly bodies and the sun revolving around the earth) put forth by Ptolemy and Aristotle because of how neatly it could fit into the current teachings. Unlike this theory, however, Galileo enforced Copernicus’ heliocentric theory with inductive reasoning rather than deductive. Galileo made observations about the moons of Jupiter and their orbit around Jupiter, which he likened to a smaller version of their solar system.

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It is made up of methane, hydrogen and helium. Uranus is also a very cold planet. It has been called the "ice giant. " It is believed that Uranus is made up of rock and ice and that Uranus has a large rocky core. Because of the tremendous planetary pressure of Uranus, there could possibly be trillions of large diamonds in or on the surface of this planet.

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Pluto got the underworld , and Netupe got the sea. Jupiter could not be affected by other God/ Goddesses would do. There are several myths about the god Jupiter. When he was born his dad Nymphs placed him in a golden cradle, which hung from a oak tree. All lot of people would avoid him because of his loud scream .

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I did the discovery of Uranus! I found it to be really interesting. I learned some things! I learned that Uranus was discovered by William Herschel. It is the third largest planet and it orbit’s the sun once every 84th earth year.

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Astronomy: Discovery of Uranus by William Herschel in 1781 Before the discovery of Uranus by William Herschel the world knew about the five existing planets that were able to be observed by the naked eye. These planets are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The earth was not considered in these planets because earth was previously thought to be the center of the universe where all celestial bodies revolved around it. William Herschel began at a young age to ponder the heavens and what was out there, he used small telescopes but was soon frustrated because of their lack of power to see much further than the naked eye. Herschel was motivated to build larger telescopic tools to look deeper into the cosmos.

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On the other hand, Scientist Galilei made the telescope better, discovered the moons of Jupiter and the phases of Venus, and the moon could not make its own light also it was not smooth. Finally, Scientist Kepler came up with the three laws of planetary motion and proved that the planets don’t

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Out of the eight planets in our solar system, Uranus is the seventh farthest away from the sun and cannot be seen by the naked eye. It was actually the first planet to be discovered with the use of a telescope. The discovery of Uranus was made on March 13th, 1781 by William Herschel, a british astronomer and composer who was born in Germany. Uranus is described to be “rolling around on the sun on its side” because of the fact that is was tipped on its side with a tilt of ninety-eight degrees. Herschel originally thought that he discovered a comet but after a few years it was classified as a planet.

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William Herschel’s discovery of Uranus in the scientific world was one that was meet with gladness. He made the first large telescope in 1774 and was which aided Herschel into finding out the Uranus was not a star, but a planet. The motivation for this was because Herschel had been doing this for years and years and had mapped out huge parts of the night shy. So for him it was something that he loved to do. He thought that Uranus was a comet and found that this “comet” was increasing in size and that it was approaching earth.

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While Earth 's atmosphere works as a buffer, keeping the planet at just the right temperature, the atmosphere on Venus is so thick that it traps most of the heat from the sun, resulting in extreme temperature variations on the surface. Made of carbon dioxide, nitrogen,

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His parents are Cronus and Rhea. The Romans worshiped Jupiter for a few reasons one, because he was the king of the gods, two because he Jupiter was believed to be helping protect the cities, and three because Jupiter may make them the best empire the world has ever seen. That is why Jupiter was also worshiped before starting battle. Mars-

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Sir William Herschel helped to lead the discovery of the planet Uranus, and then to the discovery of the two rings around the planet 190 years earlier then scientists would confirm their direct origins. Uranus was first discovered by Herschel on March 13, 1781 and firstly called it the "Georgian Planet" in honor of King George 3rd. But upon further investigation in March 1787, Herschel was gazing upon the planet and realized something odd. For there appeared to be two distinct rings around the planet, which he continued to see night after night. Thinking it must have been due to defective equipment two years later, Herschel decided to turn around the mirror on his reflector by 90 degrees.

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Jovian planets are composed of gases or ices. Jupiter and Saturn are also called gas giants. They consist of hydrogen and helium mostly. They are rocky and are metallic with very hot cores. Uranus and Neptune are called Ice Giants and they have an atmosphere full of hydrogen.

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Moreover, with Uranus extreme pressures and temperature, a spacecraft’s metal would be destroyed if it flew through the planet’s atmosphere. Accordingly, this atmosphere is mainly made up of helium and hydrogen, but it does obtain traces of water as well as a small amount of methane, which gives the ice giant its signature blue color. Uranus planetary atmosphere is the 2nd coldest in the solar system with a minimum temperature of -224.2 degrees Celsius, making it even colder than Neptune in certain places. This chilling factor feels even colder, consequently due to Uranus’s wind speeds, reaching up to 560 mph. Voyages

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Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, which makes it the most difficult planet for scientists to study. If you could stand on mercury, the sun would look three times bigger than on earth. Mercury can get as close as 47 kilometers to the sun. A big difference between Mercury and all the other planets is the size of its iron core. Mercury’s iron core makes up about 65 percent of its total mass.

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