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Planetary Science is the study of Planets and the Solar System, a combination of Astronomy and Earth Sciences. Find questions about the different planets and more.
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Earth is the "third rock from the Sun".
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Mars rotates on its axis in 24.6 hours. So the cycles of light and dark are very similar to those on the earth. One half of the...
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You can Google the names of our eight planets as well as two dwarf planets and you'll receive detailed picture/s of most of them.
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Pluto. Pluto is now considered a part of the Kuiper Belt. It is a dwarf planet. Look at "Pluto" on Wikipedia.com
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No. Venus is #6 in mass, after Earth. The four gas giant planets are 1 through 4.
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Assuming it was possible to switch two objects of such mass in a time period of 0: If the new sun had a larger radius, either...
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1. Moon has no atmosphere 2. Moon's rotation means "day" and "night" each last two weeks.
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No, but your weight does.
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Earth is continuously rotating on its axis around the sun and it is a sphere. The part of Earth that comes in front of sun gets...
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Uranus contains Methane in its atmosphere which gives it a aquamarine or cyan colour.
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because a scientist
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The orbit of the Moon has a slight tilt in respect to Earth's orbit. So in order for an eclipse to happen a perfect alignment...
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The planets orbit the Sun. The Sun is at the center of our solar system and does not move.
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14 main stars. 76 "bayer" stars
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any planet between Mercury and Jupiter Mercury,Venus,Earth,Mars,and maybe Jupiter
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Earth
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It's not... Mercury is smaller than Earth.
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The moon's period of rotation on its axis is precisely synchronized with its period of orbital revolution around the earth. Both...
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It would depend on where each planet was in its orbit. At a minimum, the two planets are about 1,633,310,000 km apart, and a...
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It is likely that many stars within a globular cluster may have planets.
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chuck norris roundhouse liked a star and the universe was born
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It's most probably Venus. As it orbits the sun closer than earth it either follows or precedes the sun, and as such it is visible...
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A cosmologist
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noones quite sure yet about if there is life on other planets because there is just no scientific proof of that yet. It would...
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Our very own planet "EARTH"
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No. The escape velocity of a black hole is greater than the speed of light.
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It is a star, or a gas giant.
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Voyager 1 and 2 were launched in 1977, and explored the outer planets during the 70's and 80's. They are still partially...
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Modern geologists and geophysicists consider the age of the Earth to be around 4.54 billion years old. This age has been...
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They are all approximately circle and in the same plane, but when you look further, they are actually elliptical and off centre...
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It depends how fast you are going. The distance is 28.5 million miles at its shortest distance and 43 million miles at its...
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Jupiter duh its called the largest planet
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Telescopes and binoculars, although a lot can be seen with an unaided eye.
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the hottest star in the space is the rigel ..
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Any gas can be explosive under pressure, but there are a few exceptional ones: Hydrogen:Responsible for the Hindenburg disaster ...
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All bigger that Earth All gas giants All have more than one moon All have rings
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Yes. Its atmosphere is much less dense than the Earth's, but still present.
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clouds and the atmosphere
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planets with lots of gas.
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Mar's average temperature is -80 degrees Fahrenheit
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Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn
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Earth The sidereal rotational period of Mars is 1.025 957 days (ie 24.62296 hours)The sidereal rotational period of Earth is...
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Mercury is. Though it is not the hottest planet in our solar system - Venus is.
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Earth strangly well we need t.v. right
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It swallows up light. Does not allow light to pass through, eating up anything in its path.
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A space station and many satellites.
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Only Venus and Earth have a greenhouse effect because they have a substantial atmosphere. Venus actually has a runaway greenhouse...
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Uranus. Pluto's approximate distance from the sun is 39.5 AU while Uranus's approximate distance from the sun is 19.2 AU.
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Jupiter has 63 moons. Saturn has 62 moons. These numbers keep increasing as new observations identify smaller moons that hadn't...
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Well, we have light, the sun, water, the atmosphere, and climate. We need those five things for life. Without even one of those...
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Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun counting outwards. Starting at the outside and counting in (which I think is what you...
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Well, it's not just the planets. Our Solar System consists of the sun, the planets, an asteroid belt, and all the planets' moons....
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During a lunar eclipse the moon is on the opposite side of the Earth to that of the sun. As such light from the Sun is passing...
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It has to do with gods. Moon is the english version luna who we all know is a god.
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Yes, all the planets which have their axis of rotation at right angles(or close to 90`) to the orbital plane will experience...
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Among the three its Mars, but in the solar system it is Mercury.
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No, Venus is the hottest.
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The Earth's rotation does have an impact on the moon's orbit, so if the Earth were spinning in the opposite direction it would...
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Water is found at the poles of Mars in the form of ice. This has only been confirmed recently. As for liquid water, there is...
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Shooting stars are actually objects burning in the Earth's atmosphere. The name "shooting star" originates from ancient times...
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Virtually all of the known planets are near a star. Occasionally, a rougue free floating one will be sighted, but they are rare...
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The question contains the answer 100,000. "if each of these star clusters contains 100,000 stars, how many stars exist in these...
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INNER PLANETS- Rocky Surface Inside the Meteor Belt Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars Thin closer to the sun than outer planets...
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The Sun is anything BUT "stable"; it is a million-mile wide ball of nuclear explosions in which the outward force of the...
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Gravity is directly related to mass. A planet with a smaller mass than that of Earth would have less gravity, a planet more...
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Gravity is caused by mass, so the more mass, the more gravity. The Sun has 99.5% of all the mass in the solar system. So the...
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The largest moon in our solar system is Ganymede, which orbits Jupiter.
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All light comes from the Sun. If you go outside in the daytime, you're seeing sunlight directly. If you are out after dark, you...
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We only have 8 planets in our solar system, all named after gods. Pandora was not a goddess, but she gave her name to one of...
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A white dwarf's mass is comparable to that of the Sun yet its volume is comparable to that of the Earth,
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Eccentricity, geocentric model, heliocentric model, Kepler's second and third laws, elliptical orbits, and Newtons gravitation
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Of the eight planets in the Solar System, the only two that have no moons are Mercury and Venus. Earth has one moon, Mars two,...
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The sun's volume is 1,520,000 times bigger than that of Venus.The sun's diameter is 114.9 times bigger than that of Venus.
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because the sun is so bright that it covers it up!! jk idk
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They can bring water to dry worlds. That's NOT true at all!
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The next good total lunar eclipse visible from the UK will be on September 28, 2015. ...
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