... Planets . ... Earth Satellites . ... Looking in the direction of the constellation Cygnus the Swan and launched by NASA in 2009 is the Kepler Space Observatory.Many previous missions searching for exoplanets mainly detected large giant planets, like large hot Jupiters (it is easier to detect larger planets).However KeplerтАЩs main objective is to search for much smaller planets located in a habitable zone which is not too close nor too far from their star; planets which may be just like our Earth. ...

... Ganymede: The Largest Moon in the Solar System . ... 20.06.2000 . ... Credit Copyright: Galileo Project , JPL , NASA . ... The reason is that Jupiter 's moon Ganymede is not only the largest moon in the Solar System , it is larger than planets Mercury and Pluto . ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter - Moon - Ganymede - Solar System - Galilean Moon . Publications with words: Jupiter - Moon - Ganymede - Solar System - Galilean Moon . ... Moons and Jupiter . ... To Scale: The Solar System . ...

NASA Press Release Text - June 24, 1996 GALILEO READY FOR CLOSE FLYBY OF JUPITER'S BIGGEST MOON Now residing in orbit around Jupiter, NASA's Galileo spacecraft is primed for its first close flyby of Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, at 2:29 a.m. EDT on June 27, 1996. ... In the days just before and after the Ganymede flyby, Galileo's other studies will include a search for auroral activity on Jupiter's nightside and observations of other Jovian moons: Io, Europa and Callisto. ...

... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . Armagh Observatory, 11 June 2015: Armagh Observatory reports that the next two weeks will provide an interesting opportunity to observe the brightest planet, Venus, and the largest planet, Jupiter, as they move towards one another in the evening twilight. ... The image shows the sky view towards the West at around 11pm on 20 June 2015. ... Professor Mark E. Bailey, Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG. ...

... ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. ... Unit Telescopes Overview - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Secondary mirror (M2 Unit) - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ... Coating Unit - This page is outdated, an update is in process. ...

... A dynamo is created in a magnetic field by an electric circuit, part of which is moving relative to the rest (additional conditions must also be met). ... Furthermore, the plasma between them conducts electricity very well along its magnetic field lines, which act as if they were wires connecting Io and the planet (drawing). ... The drawing is not to scale. ... The Hubble Space Telescope , using its Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, has been photographing auroras of the planet Jupiter. ...

... In addition to the planets and their satellites the solar system contains a large number of smaller but interesting objects. T here are thousands of known asteroids and comets and undoubtedly many more unknown ones. ... There are also some asteroids whose orbits carry them closer to the Sun than the Earth (Aten, Icarus, Hephaistos). Most comets have highly elliptical orbits which spend most of their time in the outer reaches of the solar system with only brief passages close to the Sun. ...

... There has been a heated public discussion in the past few years about whether our ninth planet is really deserving of the name. Since Pluto orbits a star, and is much less luminous, it certainly satisfies the definition we have above. The problem is actually not with Pluto, but with a very large number of other bodies in our Solar System which also satisfy this definition, but which are not called planets. Perhaps the most notable of these is Ceres, the largest asteroid. ... Planet . ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Formation and migration of trans -- Neptunian objects S. I. Ipatov 1;2 1 Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia 2 NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, USA We support the Eneev's idea [1] that the largest (with diameter d?100 km) trans ­ Neptunian objects ( TNOs ) moving now in not very eccentric orbits ... The total amount of water delivered to the Earth during the formation of the giant planets was about the mass of water in the Earth's oceans. ...

... 142,800 Mean density (kg/m^3) .. ... 5.203 Rotation period (length of day in Earth hours).. 9.8 Revolution period (length of year) (in Earth years). 11.86 Obliquity (tilt of axis) (degrees).. 3.08 Orbit inclination (degrees).. 1.3 Orbit eccentricity.. 0.048 Mean surface temperature (K)........................ 120 (cloud tops) Visual geometric albedo.. 0.44 Atmospheric components.............................. 90% hydrogen, 10% helium, .07% methane Rings.. ...

Jupiter is the largest of the nine planets, more than 10 times the diameter of Earth and more than 300 times its mass. ... The mean density of Earth is 5.245 times that of water. The pull of gravity on Jupiter at the top of the clouds at the equator is 2.4 times as great as gravity's pull at the surface of Earth at the equator. ... It is tipped about 11њ to Jupiter's axis of rotation, similar to Earth's, but it is also offset from the center of Jupiter by about 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles). ...

... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Planet rise: Alien world looms large in its neighbor's sky . ... In this artist's conception, a "hot Neptune" known as Kepler-36c looms in the sky of its neighbor, the rocky world Kepler-36b. The two planets have repeated close encounters, experiencing a conjunction every 97 days on average. ... Now imagine that instead of the Moon, a gas giant planet spanning three times more sky loomed over the molten landscape of a lava world. ...

... Advantages of a Larger Aperture for TPF-C Can Search More Stars to Greater Distances (~D3 ) Faster Survey, More Time for Follow-Up Sensitive to Planets in Habitable Zone of More/Fainter Stars Smaller Inner Working Angle (at Fixed Wavelength) Lower Mass Stars , Fewer Visits /Star for Significant Null Result, Improved Orbits, Efficient Recovery on Future Visits TPF-C Observability of ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The Nine Planets . ... The Sun stays at the center and the planets orbit it serenely, each in its place. ... Tiny Pluto, orbiting the Sun an average of nearly 40 times the Earth's orbital radius, has an odd orbit. Most planets orbit the Sun in nearly perfect circles, but Pluto's orbit is noticeably elliptical. ... The orbits of Pluto and Neptune have a coincidental timing to them: Pluto orbits the Sun twice for every three times Neptune does. ...

Planetology from the cm to the nm wavelength ranges: Arecibo Observatory, ALMA and IAA-CSIC R. Rodrigo1/L.M. Lara (IAA-CSIC) Granada (Spain) 1 Visiting Professor at Arecibo Observatory and at Universidad Metropolitana de Puerto Rico Luisa M. Lara Minor bodies and minor planets with ALMA § Continuum ­ Asteroids · Map of the shape, large-scale surface features, and surface temperature distributions of the 700 largest objects in the main asteroid belt and the hundred largest Jupiter Trojans. ...

... Currently, there is very little information on comets which are active beyond the orbit of Jupiter. ... Previous observations conducted by our team with the SAO RAS 6-m telescope showed that some of these comets have extended tails dissimilar to the tails of comets forming at close heliocentric distances. ... We for the first time measured the linear polarization of scattered emission for the two distant comets C/2010 S1 (LINEAR) and C/2010 R1 (LINEAR) at heliocentric distances of 5.9-7.0 au. ...

Nonlinear tides in giant planets Adrian Barker DAMTP, University of Cambridge (formerly at CIERA, Northwestern) With: C. Baruteau, B Favier, P Fischer, Y Lithwick, G Ogilvie Introduction Motivation · Shortest period hot Jupiters (M ~ MJup, P < 10 d) have preferentially circular orbits => thought to be explained by tidal dissipation inside the planet (e.g. Rasio et al,1996) If so, what mechanisms are responsible? ... Linear theory contains uncertainties (e.g. Zahn, Ogilvie, Papaloizou, Ivanov, Wu). ...

Общая Астрономическая Конференция > Форумы общей направленности > Непознанное, необъяснимое, загадочное > Planet 2003!! ... Просмотр полной версии : Planet 2003!! Denis . ... странник" приобретает скорость, равную почти 1000 км / с, у меня возник вопрос: . ... To Marc W. Buie (Lowell Observatory), 2000 CR105 was at first just another distant discovery among dozens found during his team's ongoing search for trans-Neptunian objects using 4-meter telescopes in Arizona and Chile. ...

... part 1 | ... Regular orbits of planets of the Solar system during their formation, . ... Radius of the orbit in perigelion . Regular orbit of a planet in time of its formation from . Divergence with actual radius . ... Name . ... orbit . ... Radius . ... Mercury . ... 1,3487 . ... 1,8191 . ... X-planet)* . ... Orbits of prospective planets destroyed in present . Orbits, on which planets of Mercury, Moon and (DePho) * presumably were before. | ...

Orbit . ... The orbit of the RadioAstron provides four types of study: . rough images of radio sources with ultra-high angular resolution, using all baselines up to the radius of the apogee, that is much larger than Earth diameter; . ... high quality imaging of radio sources, with moderate resolution, by observing either with small projected base lines Earth-spacecraft, i.e. close to the orbital plane, or near the perigee. ... high accuracy orbit determination. ... Space Radio Telescope . ...