NATS 1745 Final: 1745 Short Study Notes

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1745
• Professor: Robin Metcalfe

Document Summary

Viking space probe (search for carbon at. Mars), seti project pheonix (monitor 800 nearby stars for radio signals) & voyager 1 (20yrs from reaching interstellar space) Named after greek god of the sky and father of saturn. Moves relative with stars rather than with the stars. Kepler initially thought it was a planet. It was called a small asteroid called asteroids because it was (cid:862) mall(cid:863) Predicted by kepler that it was between mars and jupiter (bodes law) Unable to merge into a planet due to strong gravitational pull of jupiter. Discovered by adam & levliers (cid:894)due to u(cid:396)a(cid:374)us(cid:859) o(cid:396)(cid:271)it de(cid:448)iati(cid:374)g(cid:895) Orbits the sun in a near circular orbit. True statements about planets beyond mars: multiple moons, planetary rings, gas giants. True statements about the moons of earth & mars: Ea(cid:396)th(cid:859)s (cid:373)oo(cid:374) (cid:271)elie(cid:448)ed to ha(cid:448)e (cid:272)o(cid:373)e f(cid:396)o(cid:373) la(cid:396)ge (cid:272)ollisio(cid:374) One of mars moon exhibits retrograde motion. Pluto(cid:859)s (cid:373)ass is too small to contribute to deviation of uranus.