In a game of ping-pong, suppose a paddle moves at 20 miles per hour and hits a ball with 20 mph in the opposite direction. ... In the new problem, a ball moving at -40 mph hits a non-moving surface; if the collision is elastic (no energy lost), that ball returns with the same speed but in the opposite direction, i.e. its velocity reverses sign. ... Something very similar happens when a spacecraft with velocity v passes close to a moving planet and is deflected. ...

... Using a ruler measure the distance between two discs, of the same planet, in number order e.g. from disc 1 to disc 2 or disc 3 to disc 4. ... We can measure how fast the planets are moving by measuring the distance between each disc. ... The larger the distance between the discs the faster the planet is moving. ... Take care Some of the discs do not increase in 1's, they increase in 5's or 10's. This means that the time between the discs are not the same as that for the inner planets. ...

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Bigbang Forum Message . ... Big Bang | ... Big Bang: Nagging Doubts Remain . ... I recently read 2 books by Simon Singh: Fermats Last Theorem and The Big Bang. ... No matter how many proofs there are to support a theory, if it is not mathematical then there will always remain an element of doubt as to the accuracy of that theory. ... www.astronomy.net . ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

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... Kepler's Laws . ... Second Law . ... Energy . ... In many ways, a planet around the Sun , or of a scientific satellite around Earth, moves like that, too , although the equations are different. ... Kepler's law states: . ... For a satellite of mass m orbiting Earth (or for a planet around the Sun) at a distance of r meters, a similar formula exists: . ... Kepler's second law tells us everything about this variation and should allow us to obtain a formula that gives the way f varies with time t . ...

On 07apr08 at 21:30 tiedown 8 stopped moving. ... The plots show the tiedown motions during td8 failure (.ps) ( .pdf ). ... Velocity feedback. This is a read back of the DtoA voltage that is sent to the motor amplifier. ... Page 1: 07apr08 20 to 22 hours shows when td 8 stopped moving. ... The td8 commanded velocity is 0 implying that the td8 was not asked to move. ... td8 remained stationary, td4,12 where moving. td8 commaned velocity was 0 so it was never being requested to move. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... The Nine Planets . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... As I say on the page about orbits , at a year away Planet X must be roughly as far as Saturn (and therefore closer as you read this page). The distance from Earth in May 2002 should be about 900 million kilometers. ... Planet X, if it orbits on an ellipse, can get as far as 235 AU away, 7 times the distance of Pluto. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

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Comets necessarily obey the same physical laws as every other object. ... If one considers only two bodies -- either the Sun and a planet, or the Sun and a comet -- the smaller body appears to follow an elliptical path or orbit about the Sun, which is at one focus of the ellipse. ... Another quantity that is conserved is called angular momentum. ... Comets simply are bodies which in general have more angular momentum per unit mass than do planets and therefore move in more elongated orbits. ...

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3) Planets and Brown Dwarfs . ... By its nature, this method is most sensitive to massive planets orbiting close to their stars. ... That means that some of the more massive extrasolar planets could actually be brown dwarfs (although the statistics of the finds suggest that most of them are not). ... Another possible difference between brown dwarfs and massive planets is how they are born. ... They would base the fundamental definition on the mode of formation: a planet is built from planetesimals. ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . The Moving Moons of Saturn . ... 27.06.2006 . ... Credit: Cassini Imaging Team , SSI , JPL , ESA , NASA Explanation: The moons of Saturn never stop. ... Like a miniature Solar System , the innermost moons orbit Saturn the fastest. ... The Sun illuminates the scene from the lower right, giving all of the moons the same crescent phase . ... August . ... Publications with keywords: Saturn - motion . ... APOD: 2007 August 1- Unusual Cratering on Saturns Dione . ...

... Central to this vision has been the idea that the way to discover new worlds around distant stars is by someday traveling there in person. ... I am a graduate student in astrophysics at UC Berkeley, home of one of the most successful planet searches presently underway. ... We can see the planets in our own solar system by reflected sunlight, but only at night when the sun?s glare does not obscure them. ... Planets are thought to form from a disk of gas and dust swirling around an infant star. ...

... Subject of Astronomy. ... Basis of Spherical and Practical Astronomy. ... Celestial Sphere. ... Changes of Star's Coordinates as a Result of Daily Rotation of Celestial Sphere. ... Time Measuring. ... Changes of Solar Equatorial Coordinates. ... Stellar Day, Stellar Time. ... Real Solar Time. ... Mean Solar Time. ... Connections between Stellar and Mean Time. ... Apparent Path and Configuration of Planets. ... Ways of Energy Transportation to Stellar Surface.Basis of Spectral Analysis. ... Solar...

Discover the cosmos! ... June 6, 1999 . Kepler Discovers How Planets Move . ... Explanation: Johannes Kepler used simple mathematics to describe how planets move. ... Kepler was able to use Brahe 's data to show that planets move in ellipses around the Sun ( Kepler's First Law ), that planets move proportionally faster in their orbits when they are nearer the Sun ( Kepler's Second Law ), and that more distant planets take proportionally longer to orbit the Sun ( Kepler's Third Law ). ...

... Science User Portal . ... For the first time, astronomers have been able to directly follow the motion of an exoplanet as it moves from one side of its host star to the other. ... Only 12 million years old, or less than three-thousandths of the age of the Sun, Beta Pictoris is 75% more massive than our parent star. ... This research was presented in a paper to appear this week in Science Express (тАЬA Giant Planet Imaged in the disk of the Young Star Beta Pictoris,тАЭ by A.-M. Lagrange et al.) ...

The radiation belts around the planets are the interrnal regions of planets' magnetospheres where the own magnetic field of a planet keeps the charged particles (protons and electrons) having the great kinetic energy. ... They usually distinguish the Earth's internal and external radiation belts. the internal radiation belt of the Earth has the maximum particles density (mainly protones) over the equator in the height of 22 thousand km. ... Jupiter and Saturn have the powerful radiation belts. ...

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