astronomy 201 the sun and its planets dr. jeff kriessler
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Astronomy 201
The Sun and its Planets
Dr. Jeff Kriessler
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Discussion
Come up with as many examples of products which are named after astronomical objects.
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Discussion
Come up with as many examples of how astronomy affects your daily life as you can.
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Discussion
What is a day? How would you define it to someone who doesn’t know anything about how we keep time?
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TimeDay – Time it takes the Sun to return to the same position above the horizon.
Month – Time it takes the Moon to go through its phases.
Year – Time it takes to move through the seasons.
Note: Ancient definitions may differ from the modern usage!
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The hour
An hour originally was the time it takes the Moon to move its own diameter against the stars.
Today we define an hour as 3,600 seconds where a second is 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a Cesium-133 atom.
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“Fixed” stars and Planets
Although the stars change their positions over the course of a night and from night to night, their relative positions (their positions relative to each other) remain constant year after year.
Planet means “wanderer.” They change their positions relative to that of the fixed stars
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The Planets of antiquity
SunMoonMercuryVenusMarsJupiterSaturn
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The days of the Week
Sunday – the Sun’s dayMonday – The Moon’s dayTuesday – Tiw’s day – Mars Wednesday – Woden’s day – Mercury Thursday – Thor’s day – Jupiter Friday – Freia’s day – Venus Saturday – Saturn’s day
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Ordering of the day names
Planets ordered by apparent length of period of revolution about a presumed stationary Earth:
SaturnJupiterMarsSunVenusMercuryMoon
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Assign each planet to an hour of the day:
Saturn 1, Jupiter 2, Mars 3, Sun 4, Venus 5, Mercury 6, Moon 7, Saturn 8, Jupiter 9, …
Which planet gets assigned the 25 hour?
Discussion
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Southern circumpolar stars
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Total Solar eclipse
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Total Lunar Eclipse
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Ptolemy explanation for retrograde motion
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Aristarchus explanation for retrograde motion
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Tyco Brahe
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Johannes Kepler
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Galileo Galilei
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Isaac Newton
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Atom
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Ceres
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HST image 1995
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Cassini
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Ceres
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Our place in the Universe
Our Address:
Case Western UniversityCleveland, OhioUSAEarthThe Solar SystemThe Milky Way GalaxyThe Local GroupThe Local SuperclusterThe visible Universe
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Visible Universe
The portion of the Universe that light traveling at 186,000 miles per second, has had enough time to reach us. The visible Universe is a sphere with a radius of about 14 billion light years.
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Hierarchy
Universe – made up of lots of galaxies
The Galaxies – made up of lot of solar systems
The Solar System – where the influence of the Sun dominates over the influence of other stars