Solar System: The Snow Line

There are many differences among our planets and moons in our Solar System. The geologic activity, composition, interior structure, magnetic field, and atmosphere are all factors that help give these planets and moons there identity. We have sent probes over the years to help examine these properties.

According to Carolyn Ruth, author of “Where Do Chemical Elements Come From,” chemical elements came from the explosion of stars, also known as supernovas. In her article, Carolyn states that a newborn star is mainly composed of the first element on the periodic table, Hydrogen. Due to the high pressure within the star, a fusion process begins that fuses two protons and two neutrons together to form the second element, Helium. These fusion processes continue to form elements that weigh less than Iron. Once the star creates all elements up to Iron, the star eventually collapses and explodes. One article that agrees with Carolyn’s theory is “The Origin of the Elements and the Life of A Star”. According to this article, stars produce nuclear reactions

Gravity: Gravity is a force of nature that keeps things on Earth instead of floating out of the atmosphere.

Accordingly, the solar system has any orbit; the real question is, how did gravity impact the motion of the planets? They couldn’t have just began to rotate by themselves. In the first place, the planets orbit around a source, which is the sun having lots of gravitational pull to allow the eight planets to orbit around. Gravity, is what causes the planets to only go a certain speed and time to go around the sun. Without gravity we wouldn’t stay revolving around. (Gravity and Orbit Simulation,1/20/2017) Likewise, the revolution of the planets going around the sun isn’t a circle, it’s more of an oval shape. Likewise, the velocity of a planet's revolution also ties into this because, the planet’s have an elliptical orbit meaning they change in

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During the first millennium B.C. scientists realized that astronomy had to become more scientific. Middle Eastern and Chinese cultures started studying the Sun, stars and the planets more closely in an attempt to learn more about our position in the universe.. Star positions also became important tools in understanding directions, and helping with navigation. One philosopher stated in 434 B.C. that the Sun was a ball of fire 60 kilometres in diameter, hovering 6500 kilometres above Earth’s surface. Around 130 B.C., Ptolemy wrote Almagest, which was a huge collection of astronomical data which included mathematical models, information about eclipses, and planetary and stellar positions and movements. It remained a major go to book for astronomy for hundreds of years, and was not seriously challenged until Copernicus disputed the geocentric model of the solar system in the 1500’s

The solar system was created 4.6 billion years ago by a gravitational collapse. A solar system is a star that has planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids travel around it. The solar system contains eight known planets which are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. There is around several hundred dwarf plants but only five are currently recognized. The solar system has about 181 moons which orbit around the planets in the solar system. There is also about 150 million asteroids and 3,406 comets also in the solar system.

Snowball Earth by Gabrielle Walker is a story of an ex-marathon runner name Paul Hoffman who moved to Canada to follow his dream of studying rock formations to reveal information of an unknown period, the pre-Cambrian era. When Paul first moved to Canada he was interested in the Slime that still remained in some areas of the world. The slime was the only remaining information that Paul had from the pre-Cambrian era and wanted to find out what had happened during that time period. In Canada Paul studied rocks everyday and because he was in the northern part there was sunlight for 95% of the day so Paul was out all day searching for evidence. Paul had heard a theory from a young scientist called the

The main idea of this article is that there is a snowline around a star outside of our solar system. In the article the author states that astronomers have taken a picture of the snowline. The author explains his statement by explaining that the star named V883 Orionis had an outburst where it’s material around it got flash-heated and sent a snowline. That means that it was cold enough for water to freeze, even if it’s way further away than normal. The author describes the star by stating V883 Orionis is yellow, it was surrounded by an orange disk that had a dark snowline layer. Scientists at Alma telescope in Atacama, Chile took an image of it.

The snow line is a line that represents the point at which temperatures are cool enough for less dense materials such as hydrogen to form snowflakes. While elements like metals can become solid at much higher temperatures, it takes intense cold to allow others to condensate. The snow line creates the differences between Jovian and Terrestrial planets. Jovian planets are outer planets with cores surrounded by gas, while Terrestrial planets are small, dense planets located closer to the sun. Jovian planets form past the snow line, where more elements are able to solidify and contribute mass until the planets can pull gases in with their gravitational pull, creating huge planets much larger than the Terrestrials. Terrestrials aren't able to obtain

What do we mean when we say something has an edge, or a boundary? Some things, like a table or a soccer field have clear edges and boundaries. Other objects, like cities and towns, have boundaries that aren't as easy to see. It is hard to say where they end and something else begins. The solar system is more like a city than a table or soccer field.

Scientists have shown that the Earth stops energetic neutrinos, according to data collected from the IceCube array in Antarctica. High-energy neutrino interactions monitored by the IceCube detector, an array of 5,160 basketball-sized optical sensors buried a mile deep in a cubic kilometer of exceptionally-clear ice near the south pole.

The snow line can also be referred to as the ice line. It is a boundary where "water vapor could freeze to form ice particles. Yet a little farther from the sun, compounds such as methane and ammonia could condense to form other types of ice. Water vapor, methane, and ammonia were abundant in the solar nebula, so beyond the ice line the nebular would have been filled with a blizzard of ice particles, mixed with small amounts of silicate and metal particles that could also condense there. Those ices are low-density materials. The composition of Jupiter and the other outer planets are a mix of ices plus relatively small amounts of silicates and metal" (Seeds & Backman, 2011). In other words, the snow line is a point where it is cold enough

     Igneous rocks are classified first by texture. This is broken down mainly into grain size. First there are intrusive, or plutonic igneous rocks. These types of rocks cool within the crust and forms large, visible crystals. The opposite would be extrusive, or volcanic rocks. These cool at the surface rapidly, forming small grains. A combination

Humans live on a small planet in a tiny part of a vast universe. This part of the universe is called the solar system, and is dominated by a single brilliant star-the sun. The solar system is the earth’s neighbourhood and the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are the Earth’s neighbours. They all have the same stars in the sky and orbit the same sun.