Near-Earth Objects are comets and asteroids that have been pushed by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth's neighborhood. They are about 4.5 billion years and can range in size from pebbles or lumps of ice, to rocky or icy worlds nearly 1,000...

Earth-Like Planet Discovered 50 Light Years Away European astronomers have discovered a planet less than 50 light years away. This planet has come to be known as a sort of super Earth. It takes only ten Earth days to orbit its sun (much like our own) and the surface of the planet is scorc...

Space Rock . Eros Eros is an asteroid but can be called a minor planet. It orbits the sun that sometimes causes it to closely pass as 14,000,000 miles next to Earth. Scientists believe that Eros comes this close to Earth every 31 years. The last time Eros came close to Earth was back in 19...

Towards the end of our solar system lies the smallest of all the nine planets, Pluto. In 1905, Percival Lowell, an American astronomer, found the force of gravity of some unknown planet to be affecting the orbits of Neptune and Uranus. In 1915, he predicted the location of a new planet, and began se...

In the late 1400's to the mid 1500's, people believed that the earth was the center of the universe. Ptolemy stated that the Earth was stationary and that the sun, moon, planets, and stars revolved around imaginary points, which in turn revolved around the Earth. Copernicus knew that natu...

Aristarchus was not just a man of astronomy. He was also actively involved in mathematics as well as astronomy. He used his knowledge in both fields to discover great advances in the astronomy world like the fact that the earth rotates on its own axis and that the sun is in a fixed position and...

A Comet looks like a star with a tail. Some comets do not have tails, and look like hazy, round spots of light. But most comets have three parts; a nucleus, a head, and a tail. The bright central nucleus may be nearly as large as the earth, which is about 7,900 miles in diameter. The head, or c...

Issue: What is a comet made up of? View of Aristotelian Philosophers: The Aristotelian philosophers decided that comets were disasters that happened in the atmosphere of the earth. Comets were not permanent in the atmosphere. Since they appeared and disappeared, the comets "fuzzy-glow"...

Astronomy Second Paper 11-27-00 I attended the Wagner College Planetarium(located in Spiro Hall)on November 15, 2000 at 11:00 for research and to observe the stars, planets and our entire solar system more closely. There was a clear dome on the cei...

An asteroid is a small or minor planets that are members of the solar system and move in elliptical orbits. Usually found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. A comet is relatively small, rocky, and icy. It revolves around the sun. When a comet passes close to the sun some of the ice turns to...

Full title: English Summer Reading: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- "One Man's Trash is Another's Treasure"  One theme in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that while the Earth is important to us, it means nothing to alien civilizations. The prolo...

Asteroids are objects in outter space that orbit the sun, but aren't quite large enough to be considered planets. Some scientists refer to them as "minor planets" while others call them "planetoids". They are made up of rocky and metallic materials. They come in many shapes, from round to ...

Jessica Alcalde Earth and Space Saturn SATURN Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and it is the second largest of the nine planets in the solar system. In Roman mythology it was believed to be the god of agriculture, he ate his children. Its Greek name is Cronos. Saturn is ...

Galileo was an Italian physicist and astronomer who with the German astronomer Johannes kelper initiated the scientific revolution that began the work of Sir Isaac Newton. Galileos main interest was astronomy he used the telescope which he invented using optic lenses to see sunspots on the sun loon...

Ancient times have it that a group of people of heritage called the "Sumerians" has documented information about a planet that's beyond Pluto in our solar system in a different orbit. They have it documented as the 12th planet because they counted Earth's moon as a planet and als...

Jupiter is one of the Sun's most interesting planets. Jupiter has many intriguing properties, which differ from those of Earth and other planets. It has many satellites uncommon to others in the solar system. It even helps to sustain life on Earth. Jupiter may seem like an ordinary planet,...

Many people feel that scientist Isaac Newton is mentally ill. Most of us in Europe think that every day events are controlled by mysterious spirits. Some feel God is pulling all the strings. Now along comes this ill-tempered mathematician who has begun shattering everybody's world view. Isaac Newt...

When the full moon shines it's Magic over Monument valley. Explain the author's use of magic in the literally work. The author starts of by explaining the purpose of his visit. They are situated at the Arizona Utah border that is twenty-five miles north of kayenta. The author is with...

The solar system was thought to have formed with the collapse of a giant gas cloud. The giant gas cloud was thought to have been spherical in shape because like everything else in the universe, it was spinning. This was probably due to the fact that the gas it was made up with came from the stars wh...

One of the big problems not fully appreciated with current ideas in nano technology research is the energy requirement for the development of shuttles and using it to carry the bots to other planets. First of all, the design of the shuttle would have to be very intricate because it would have to be ...

Introduction: There are many things in the macrocosm that we have never known of. We know simple things about the moon such as its craters or mountain ranges, but do we know exactly how the moon came to be? When we contrast its lunar surface characteristics with the Earth's, it is apparent t...

Is space exploration necessary? „... but the stars are not for man." Or are they? „Bitter as it might sound, mankind have been given the opportunity to explore their planet to the fullest, and to spend a golden age living in harmony and splendor. But, as you will find out, the...

Extraterrestrial life As biologists learn about life on Earth in all its diversity, and at the rate that new planets are being discovered the search for life elsewhere grows more steadily pressing. We have discovered organisms on the Earth that seem tenacious and tough almost to a fault; they t...

Astronomy is the science of the celestial bodies. Examples of heavenly bodies are the sun, moon, planets, stars, galaxies, and all other objects in the universe. Astronomy may be the oldest recorded science. In 2300 BC, Chinese astronomers made their earliest recorded observations, yet the first ...

Pluto The International Astronomical Union or IAU, was highly critisized for the rumor that Pluto's status as one of the nine planets of our solar system might be changed. The reports indicated that the IAU was planning to reclassify Pluto as a minor planet or what is known as a trans-Neptunian...