Paper on Analyzing the Planet Neptune
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Paper on Analyzing the Planet Neptune
Added on 2020-04-13
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Running Head: DISCOVERY OF PLANET NEPTUNE 1Discovery of Planet NeptuneStudent’s NameInstitution Affiliation
DISCOVERY Of PLANET NEPTUNE 2AbstractThis paper seeks to expound and critically analyze the planet Neptune. This includes the person that discovered it, the time he found it, and how he saw it. The analyzed paper then explains if there is concrete evidence too if the Planet Neptune does exist. Then it further goes ahead and provides insightful sources to support the evidence presented, however, on the other hand, it also shows sources which contradict the reality.
DISCOVERY Of PLANET NEPTUNE 3IntroductionPlanets do orbit the sun in an orderly way; this is what comprises the solar system. Mercury is known to be at the nearest distance to the sun compared to the rest of the planets, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, then Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and finally Neptune. Even though some do support life like earth, others do not support life. This paper identifies and analyses the significant discovery of the planet Neptune. It then extends by providing an expansion on who discovered it, when did he or she do it, and lastly, how did he do it. However, regarding the demand of the paper, which has broken down the research process using questions, like if there issufficient evidence to prove all about the planet Neptune, are there any sources that support the evidence provided, and if there are any contradicting sources on the same. The first question is which I turn to below.Standing at a distance of 2.8 billion miles from the sun, lies a blue 30,7775 miles diameter planet, called Neptune, named after the Roman god of water (due to its blue coloration).Neptune is the eighth planet from the sun. The planet is oval and said to be 30 times as far away from the earth as Earth. Nevertheless, its distance from the sun makes it take even longer to complete one full rotation around the sun at an estimated 165 Earth years, and as a result, Neptune completed its first rotation in 2011 (Dong & Zhu, 2013). Also, the Earth has a rocky core, so does Neptune. However, Neptune does not support life and habitation this is due to the existence of a much thicker atmosphere compared to Earth. This, in turn, had developed an interest in astronomers (Butler et al., 2004).Neptune's features are quite fascinating and amaze many, the planet's winds reach up to a speed of around 2,400 km/h. Moreover, its vast distance from the sun does not allow the planet to get sufficient sunlight which is necessary to assist in warming up its atmosphere and drive it aswell. Neptune's magnetic field is more powerful than Earth's, around 27 times more. Consequently, wild swings are experienced during each rotation that it undergoes. Furthermore, the planets magnetic poles are extremity by approximately 47 degrees as compared with the poles along which it spins (Howard et al., 2011). Scientist after extensive research on the cloud
DISCOVERY Of PLANET NEPTUNE 4formations on the gas giant came up with the conclusion that a day on Neptune approximates to 16 hours unlike Earth's 24 hours (Dumusque et al., 2014).Neptune has 14 moons whose names are from lesser sea gods. The moons are of different sizes and shapes, the largest being Triton whose unique features is its spherical shape, and its rotation is opposite to its planet's rotation (Howard et al., 2011). This kind of rotation is known as retrograde orbit. Neptune has rings, although they are not uniform, they, however, are in possession of thick clumps of dust which are bright known as arcs (Howard et al., 2011).According to an article written in the journal Icarus, Neptune’s rings are said to be unstable. Discovery has it that a solid core builds up with time then after that hydrogen and helium from the surrounding were captured in the nebula that surrounds the sun. This led to the final formation of the present Neptune. Moreover, according to Tristan Guillot in “Interiors of Giant Planets Inside and Outside the Solar System,” he coins it that Neptune's composition is up to 25 percent rock, hydrogen, and helium up to 15 percent, and the rest which is ice is said to be up to 70 percent.Who discovered Neptune and when he found it Johan Gottfried Galle was born on 9th of June 1812, in Papsthaus a house in the town of Grafenhainichen. He was the first son of Johann Gottfried and Marie Henriette. Galle studied at Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and later on became a mathematics and physics teacher (Kowal & Drake,1980). He after that worked as an assistant to Johann Franz Encke and it is in his stay there that Galle took advantage of the Fraunhofer refactor which he used in 1838 to discover an inner darker ring of Saturn. In the subsequent two years, he found three comets which had not yet been observed before. Johann Galle's great discoveries saw him awarded Dr. Phil award (Kowal & Drake,1980).About the same time as Galle received his Ph.D., he sent a copy of his thesis to Urbain LeVerrier. However, he received a reply to it a year after. Galle was granted permission to search the rest of the section of the sky by Le Verrier after he had seen a still planet which was not yet discovered (Melo et al., 2007). He together with his assistant’s help, Galle found out a star of 8thmagnitude, which was a degree away, a physical position that had not yet been put to record.
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