MINISTERY OF DEFENCE Nicolae Balcescu Land Force Academy Sibiu 2011

ASTROLOGY

THE SOLAR SISTEM

Assoc. Prof: Mrioara PATEAN PhD T.A.: Brndua Ona COSMA PhD Student Cap. : Adelin VOINEA Group: 17- B

SIBIU
2011

Milky Way and the Solar System, Planets and Asteroids

Milky Way Milky Way galaxy is our solar system comes. It has the shape of a spiral disk with a huge volume and a diameter of about 100 000 light years thick of 8000 and a central spherical nucleus with a diameter of about 15,000. It is assumed that 14 billion years old and contains over 200 billion stars. Milky Way rotates around its axis, making a complete revolution in 250 million years. Near them are two small galaxies called the Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud Great. The nearest large galaxy is Andromeda, which is also a spiral galaxy, was 4 times higher than the Milky Way and is located at a distance of 2 million. Solar System Region universe in which Earth is dependent on the Sun. For this reason it is called the solar system. This includes sun, planets, comets, meteorites and dust. Planets and asteroids The main bodies of the solar system are those who, like Earth, revolve around the sun and its reflected light, they are called planets. From closest to farthest sun, the nine planets are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Five of them can be traced in the sky with the naked eye, and therefore, have been observed since antiquity, during the summer: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. The nine major planets are adding a lot of minor planets called asteroids, most concentrated between Mars and Jupiter. The diameter of the largest asteroid Ceres is about 1000 km. The smallest diameter does not exceed a few hundred meters. Sun on the planets exert a strong attraction that is almost 1,000 times heavier than all the planets combined. Satellites, comets and meteorites The largest of the planets are in turn surrounded by satellites, as in the Earth and the moon or the moon. The solar system also includes comets, small of stars formed from rocks and ice when approaching the Sun emits large amounts of gas and dust. The collision of asteroids and comets in their division too close to the Sun or the planets give rise to large-size fragments. These fragments circulate in interplanetary space and end up falling on the surface of planets or their satellites: they are meteorites. The dimensions of the solar system The planets are distributed around the Sun in a disc-shaped area with a radius of about 6 billion kilometers, which is going through six sunlight hours. Even if it seems large, universally, that the whole world is really tiny solar system. Located about 150 million km from our planet in the sky the sun appears to us as a dazzling drive. Light of reach us in 8 minutes. It covers all the other light of stars. Crossed Its bright rays, Earth's atmosphere so beautiful blue sky. Suppose we reduce the size of an orange sun: Pluto at this scale would not be just a needle pins that would spin at a distance of 400 m porocala and the nearest star would be the situation at 3000 km orange! Seen from Pluto at a distance of approximately 40 times greater than that which separates it from Earth, the Sun appears only as a shining star in the sky always black.

 Solar system history For centuries it was believed that the earth stands motionless in the center of the universe, the Sun and planets revolve around it. This world system is described as his Greek scientist Ptolemy II century i. Cr. In the century Polish astronomer Copernicus XVI said that the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun. After the invention of the telescope in the next century could prove that he was right. By studying planets and stars, astronomers were able to reconstruct the history of the solar system and predict its future. Solar System Formation Sun formed in a huge cloud of gas and dust. For reasons still little known, perhaps following a disturbance created by the explosion of a star older, situated quite close to the cloud began to collapse under its own weight and spinning on the spot. Little by little took the form of a disc denser and hotter than the center outwards. Then, in the center of the disc material has become sufficiently dense and hot as the sun begins to shine: it has spent 4.6 billion years ago. The huge cloud of gas and particulate solids were crowded progressively over more than 100 million years to form planets. Close to the Sun where it was warmer planets were born from agglomeration of rock blocks. Thus were formed Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars you. In the colder outer regions larger planets s + center formed from rocks mixed with ice. They have attracted large amounts of gas then the cloud from which came. The case of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Other solar systems In 1984, astronomers have discovered a giant disk of dust around the star Beta Pictoris. The disc was detected by infrared observations. This could be a nascent solar system. It is believed that many stars are surrounded by one or more planets. But with today's media is almost impossible to direct detection of other planets. In fact the observation of Earth-sized planets of Jupiter, which orbits around one of the closest star would be like trying to distinguish from Paris a candle placed at a distance of 10 m of a powerful beacon New York! However, astronomers could determine the presence of two planets around a star located 1600 light years.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calea_Lactee http://www.scientia.ro/univers/47-astronomie http://www.descopera.ro