Natural satellite

The Moon Jacob Hogue SCIN 111-12F Ivy Tech Community College The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. Its orbit is 384,400 km from Earth, the diameter is 3476 km and the mass is 7.35e22 kg. The moon is also Called Luna by the Romans, Selene and Artemis by the Greeks, and many other names in other mythologies. The Moon, of course, has been known since prehistoric times. It is the second brightest object in the sky after the Sun. As the Moon orbits around the Earth once per month, the angle

1.1. Natural satellites Formally, classified natural satellites or moons include 176 planetary satellites orbiting six of the eight planets. Of the inner planets, Mercury and Venus have no natural satellites; Earth has one large natural satellite, known as the Moon; and Mars has two tiny natural satellites, Phobos and Deimos. The large gas giant planets have extensive systems of natural satellites, including half a dozen comparable in size to Earth 's Moon. The objects in the solar system are classified

Andrew Logan Dr. Richards PHY-161 5/1/15 Observing Project Object 1: The Moon Next to the Sun, the moon is the most recognizable object in the night sky, and is Earth’s only natural satellite. It has been estimated that the moon formed somewhere in the region of 4.45 billion years ago, just a measly 30-50 million years after the origination of the Solar System. While there are many hypotheses that try to account for the formation of the moon, the one that is backed the greatest is the theory

Formally, classified natural satellites or moons include 176 planetary satellites orbiting six of the eight planets. Of the inner planets, Mercury and Venus have no natural satellites; Earth has one large natural satellite, known as the Moon; and Mars has two tiny natural satellites, Phobos and Deimos. The large gas giant planets have extensive systems of natural satellites, including half a dozen comparable in size to Earth 's Moon. The objects in the solar system are classified foremost by their

Non-gravitational effects on Jupiter’s satellites The non-gravitational forces affecting on the natural satellites orbits were studied recently using observations. This effect creates a quadratic term in orbital longitude and a secular changing of the semi-major axis. Causes may be only hypothetical. It is assumed that the causes of the effects are in the tides in the body of the planet and in the body of satellite (Emelyanov 2015; private communication). Lainey et al. (2009) considered an extensive

Moons of the Terrestrial Planets 2.2. Moons of Mars 2.2.1 Introduction Mars orbits at a distance of 1.52 AU from the Sun. Mars has two natural satellites, discovered by Asaph Hall in 1877. The innermost of these, Phobos, is about 22.2 km in diameter (27.0×21.6× 18.8) and orbits the planet with a period far less than Mars 's period of rotation 7.7 hr. (only one quarter that of Deimos), causing it to rise in the west and set in the east(Born & Duxbury 1975). Thus, it makes more than 3 orbits in a

Due to some of Pluto’s various characteristics, this icy dwarf planet, and other dwarf planets are not considered regular planets, such as Earth. These reasons also make other dwarf planets, like Eris, Haumea, Ceres, and Makemake, outliers, when compared to the general eight planets. Astronomers predict that there are possibly hundreds of dwarf planets that surpass the Kuiper Belt, just waiting to be discovered. There are three rules, making a planet, a planet. These include, the planet is round

Long ago, before Man was created, there were only Gods and Titans. Uranus was the Titan that ruled everything. After a few millennia, he gave birth to triplets, Pluto, Jupiter and Neptune. When they were all grown up, they became all powerful gods. When Opis, the Gods’ Uncle was jealous of Uranus, so jealous that when at the celebration of the birth of triplets, Opis killed Uranus and when that happened the first planet, besides Earth was Uranus, to watch over the EArth forever. When Jupiter

Twenty-four of Saturn 's moons are regular satellites; they have prograde orbits not greatly inclined to Saturn 's equatorial plane, while the other 38 are irregular satellites (Turrini et al. 2009; Grav et al. 2015), whose orbits are much farther from Saturn, have high inclinations, and mixed between prograde and retrograde orbits. 3.2.2 Theories of Saturnian’ Satellites Several theories have described the orbital motion of the eight major satellites of Saturn (Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione

% Ernesto Robles % Csci 130 Final clc clear all fprintf(' This program revolves around planetary motion and gravity. \n It comes with the ability to view a simulation of orbit patterns... \n \r ') Answer=menu ( 'Would you like to view a planetary simulation?','Yes!', 'No. =('); if Answer== 1 disp(' At the top of the pop-up screen please select "simulation" and then "start". ') disp(' When you are satisfied please exit from both pop-up windows and run the next section ') vrplanets elseif