Neptune And Uranus Research Paper

It all started with Uranus and Gaea. They were the first God and Goddess. Gaea is the Goddess of the Earth. Uranus is the God of sky. Another name that refer to Gaea is Mother Earth. Uranus and Gaea First children are called the titans. They had 6 titans, which are boys. They also had 6 titanesses, which are girls. The titan had ridiculous amount of strength. One of the titans was named Cronus. Uranus and Gaea had 3 cyclops children. There names were Lightning, Thunder,and Thunderbolt. The cyclopes are strong smiths. Then Uranus and Gaea had a 3 generation of kids, which were 3 sons. They had 50 heads & 100 strong arms. Uranus put the cyclops and 3rd generation of children into Tartarus. Gaea told her Titan kids to help her and kill Uranus for sending there other kids into Tartarus. Gaea told her children, who ever chooses to kill there father get the title lord of the universe and also free his siblings. Cronus said he would, but his father fled before he got the chance.

This may mean there is active cloud formation in those regions, producing fresh white clouds. The clouds in the reddish brown "belts" are deeper, covered by thick smog-like haze. A gas giant is a giant planet composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. The atmosphere of Jupiter is 90 percent hydrogen. The remaining 10 percent is almost completely made up of helium, though there are small traces of other gases inside. The Great Red Spot is a giant, spinning storm in Jupiter's atmosphere. It is like a hurricane on

Uranus is a gas giant that is believed to have a solid core made of ice and rock. Astronomers now say it is possible for the surface to be covered with massive diamonds. The atmosphere of Uranus is primarily hydrogen and helium, but its beautiful colors come from the two percent of methane gas within its atmosphere. Uranus was once thought to only vary between shades of blue and green. These hues are why most early researchers believed that its surface was covered in oceans. Now, with help of the advancements in space vessels, we know that the color can be almost anywhere on the

Jupiter is a giant gas planet in our solar system. Jupiter is 1300 times the size of Earth. Jupiter weights 317.83 times the mass of Earth. (Chown, M.C 2011 Solar System, Touch Press 115-137). Jupiter is only 1.33 times dense than water. Jupiter has a giant red hurricane on its surface which has been active for over 200 years and in more than twice the size of Earth. (Chown, M.C 2011 Solar System, Touch Press 115-137). Jupiter is named after the king of roman god who is also the god of justice. It is a fitting name for the biggest object other than the sun in the solar system. Jupiter’s atmosphere is 96% hydrogen, 3% helium, 0.4% methane, 0.01% ammonia, 0.01% hydrogen Deuteride and 0.0007% ethane. (Chown, M.C 2011 Solar System, Touch Press

It is so large that if all the other planets within the solar system merged together in size, Jupiter would still be over twice as large. Jupiter’s atmosphere is mostly composed of hydrogen and some helium. From photographs, it is easy to see that Jupiter’s surface is broken up by many horizontal stripes across. These stripes all seem to rotate around the planet at different rates and sometimes even at different direction. Due to these differences, storms are created along the edges of these stripes.

I believe the most interesting planet in our solar system, other than Earth, is Neptune. This is because Neptune is farther from the sun then most planets. To add to that, Neptune was discovered in 1846 by a French mathematician. This mathematician however did not discover Neptunes largest moon Triton. Plus, he wasn’t the only scientist involved in the discovery of Neptune. Discovering another planet beyond Uranus was thought to be improbable. But a collection of scientists noticed changes in the orbit of another planet, the planet slightly closer to our star than Neptune, Uranus. But before all of this happened, our old friend Galileo saw something with his small telescope. He saw what he thought could be a fixed star or something that could just be there effecting Uranus’ orbit.

The discovery of Uranus was a startling observation. It is possible that people had seen Uranus prior to 1781, but none had realized what exactly they were seeing – most assumed it was a star. William Herschel is credited for the discovery of Uranus, but when he observed it through his telescope, he didn’t think it was a planet either. He hypothesized that it was a comet, because it was moving too fast to be a star. It wasn’t until his observations were peer reviewed, by other astronomers who studied it and found that its orbit was nearly circular. This lead them to classify it as a planet. At the time of the discovery, the original model of the solar system was only five planets (plus the sun, and the moon). The known planets had been observed

Uranus was officially discovered in 1781 by William Herschel. Apparently, you can see Uranus with your naked eye in the night sky if you know where to look. It is faint but still visible at times. Though it is visible no one knew it was a planet for a long time, everyone thought it was a star. William Herschel was looking through his telescope and was looking at this “star” (Uranus) and after performing some measurements he was able to tell that it was moving too fast to be a star, he decided it must be a comet. He and his fellow scientists kept looking into it, a comet that bright would have to be pretty close to the sun and it would be moving much faster than this thing is. They kept studying this mysterious “comet” they soon found that it

Saturn has fascinated society for hundreds of years being the only planet whose rings are visible from Earth. Because of its distance from the Earth, exploration was not possible until the age of robotic spacecraft. Previous studies of Saturn and its surroundings were limited to data from flybys (Lebreton & Matson 2002). The Cassini Huygens mission consisted of a combination of an orbiter and a probe to fully explore the Saturnian system.

Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun and is farthest from the sun and was discovered in 1612 by Galileo. It is located approximately 2.8 billion miles from the sun and completes one full orbit every 165 years, and has only . Neptune is an ice giant which means it is mainly made up of elements heavier than helium and hydrogen such as carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, and oxygen. Neptune has 13 moons, six of which were discovered by Voyager 2. A fourteenth was found in 2013, it is about 12 miles wide and is close to 100 million times fainter than the faintest star.

This was only the start of this international debate, Le Verrier had contacted the London Guardian, a local news group, about the accusations and stated that, “When he scrupled not to put into print that my calculations were not sufficient to command his confidence, did he not perceive that he was bringing discredit on his own scientific penetration, when he attacked a calculation … Among men of science of different countries, there ought to remain only that friendly rivalry, which, as leading to the benefit of science, so far from hindering, does but cement, the frank and brotherly friendship of those who cultivate it.” (Le Verrier, 1846a). To this, Herschel had responded saying that, “The prize (the discovery of Neptune) was by all rules accredited to Le Verrier since his research was documented and brought to light before Adams discovery”. Almost seeming to assure the people of France that Le Verrier was sure to be given credit to the discovery, however Herschel meant nothing of the sort. He himself wrote directly to the editor of The Guardian stating, “These Frenchmen fly at one like wildcats.” (Herschel, 1846a).

There is a great amount of variation between the Terrestrial planets. These planets differ in size, atmosphere, and temperature. The temperatures vary greatly in the Terrestrial planets. Average temperatures range from 900° F on Venus to -50° F on Mars, which happens to have the coldest temperatures out of all the Terrestrial planets. These colder temperatures are a result of differences in distance, atmosphere, and magnetic field.

I decided to research the discovery of the planet Uranus. I found an article that gave great information about how it all happened. William Herschel had a hobby of learning about astronomy and often read many books on the subject. He would look through telescopes but found that they were too weak, so he built his own. He was able to see further than everyone else with his telescopes. One day he came across a larger body in the Gemini nebula so he shared it with others and with their help he was able to be awarded and known for discovering Uranus. I think it’s interesting how he shared it with others and they gave their input and helped him to prove his theory. I learned that most discoveries come from being close to something and wanting

Neptune is a fraction smaller than Uranus, it is ‘49,500 kilometres’. It only circles around the sun once every 165 years and rotates one hour quicker than Uranus- just 16 hours. Neptune has at least 14 moons in total, although it is not for certain as Neptune could have more moons. Neptune also has five rings, like the other three planets. It is 4.498 billion

Before the discovery of Uranus there was thought to only be seven heavenly bodies, the Sun, the moon, and five planets. It was common knowledge at the time that they were the only other objects in the Solar System and there would be no others. It changed in 1781 when William Herschel discovered a new object, which later became known as Uranus. (Teerikorni, 111) This all began in 1773 when Herschel started grinding his own lenses and even mounting a mirror with a five and a half foot focal length. He continued in 1776 with larger telescopes. “In July he added a 20ft, and telescopes of 7, 10 and 20 feet becames his common working instruments for some years to come.” (Bennet, 75-76) All of this tinkering eventually led to the discovery of a new