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    Neptune, The Ice Planet

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    Neptune:the ice planet When was Neptune discovered?“Neptune was the very first planet to be discovered by using math! (mathematics). After the discovery of Uranus in 1781, astronomers noticed that the planet was being pulled a little bit out of its normal orbit. John Couch Adams of Britain and Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier of France, used math to figure out that the gravity from another planet beyond Uranus was affecting the orbit of Uranus. They figured out not only where the planet was, but also how

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    Kepler's Planet

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    Present first in the movie star wars, planet of this type is not just fiction, it turns out that the largest planet ever found and seen with two orbit the Sun Team leading by astronomers from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and San Diego State University (SDSU) in California, using NASA'S Kepler Space Telescope to identify the planet, and at the end of the planet in the name of his or her right of Kepler-1647b. Kepler planet 1647b it lies 3700 light years and 4.4 billion

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    Review of Literature I. Introduction- History of Jupiter Jupiter is the most massive planet in our solar system. The planet was named after the kings of gods in Roman mythology. In a related way, the ancient Greeks named it after Zeus, the king of the Greek pantheon. Jupiter has helped transform the way we saw the universe in 1610 when Galileo discovered Jupiter's four largest moons. This project will describe Jupiter's characteristics. Some of these characteristics include size, Great Red

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    Mars The Red Planet

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    MARS, THE RED PLANET A number of things have been attributed to the red planet in contemporary times, much of it research-based, some cartoon-based. One’s childhood could have been filled with various science fiction novels about humanity colonizing the red planet or watching Bugs Bunny outsmart the Martian and his dog. Regardless of how you know the red planet, it does not change what is known about the red planet and what secrets it continues to unveil to us. Recently, our present understanding

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    Venus's Planet Venus

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    Mercury is a rocky planet, similar in surface to Earth's Moon. The planet lacks day to night variations in solar heating, it also has an unsteady climate as a result of this. Temperatures range from 90- Kelvin to 700- Kelvin. It is considered geologically dead and has been for a long time. There are no signs of weather, such as clouds, rain etc. It is suggested that the strong magnetic field is generated by the core. Because of it's climate it is not deemed an inhabitable planet.

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    Planet Earth Is Doomed

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    Planet Earth is Doomed! Happy New Year! Lim, Zelda and Mateo were having a celebration as it was New Year’s Eve, 2241, and they were meeting up at Mateo’s house. When they had all had something to eat and drink they decided to put the TV on to watch some of the annual rocket and boulder race. Lim turned the TV on to Star channel. All of a sudden, there became an urgent news bulletin at the bottom of the TV which said, “DANGER” in big red letters. The newsreader looked horrified and bewildered

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    The four planets that are furthest from our sun are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. They are called the outer planets. They are separated from the four inner planets by something referred to as the asteroid belt, which is filled with big chunks of rock that are called asteroids. The asteroid belt lies between Mars and Jupiter. All the outer planets are gas giants. They also take longer to orbit the sun than the four inner planets, because they are much further away from the sun. Let’s explore

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    When two planets collide, they formed Blicentia. In outer space laid planet Bluce and planet Cential. Bluce and Celtial were planets that did not conatin any human life. Bluce was a planet that was all blue and was made out of ice. Cential was a ball of fire. It was red colored and looked like the sun. People from the so called “Earth” believed that these planets were a threat to them. They thought that if the planets ever got near Earth it would be the end of the “Green Planet.” However, that was

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    The Planet By Gustav Holst

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    Gustav Holst: The Planets, Op. 32 Performed by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Andrè Previn Gustav Holst (1874-1934) was an English composer well known for his orchestral suite The Planets. Holst began his trip into the musical world as a young pianist. His father, Adolph Holst, was a skilled pianist who wanted Gustav to succeed at playing as he did. Gustav, however, was impaired by neuritis making it difficult to play for long hours. As Gustav aged he began trying to compose music instead

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    Neptune is the eighth and final planet from the sun. Discovered in 1846, it was a mystery to all, being that it is invisible to the naked eye. Neptune formed like a terrestrial planet with a solid core, but then it captured gases like hydrogen and helium when in the nebula of the original and early sun, making this planned a jovian planet. Neptune was discovered using mathematics, unlike all the other planets. The path of Uranus was not traveling like everyone though it should have been, from there

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