Sunny Weekend Ahead, 5 Facts About the Sun
It looks like Fort Lee is in for another sunny day Friday with a high temperature near 86, according to the National Weather Service. In fact, the entire weekend ahead promises to be either sunny or mostly sunny (Sunday) with temperatures in the mid-to upper-80s, according to the current weather forecast .
So Patch did some research and dug up some fun facts about the sun in celebration of such lovely summer weather.
How many planets orbit the sun? Eight planets orbit the sun along with one dwarf planet, Pluto. You may remember that Pluto was demoted as a full planet awhile back.
How old is the sun? Scientists estimate that the sun is 4.6 billion years old, which puts it at about the halfway point of its lifespan.
How big is the sun? According to National Geographic, nearly 109 Earths could fit on top of the sun and another one million Earths could fit inside.
How hot is the sun? NASA estimates that at the sun's core, it is 27 million degrees Fahrenheit.
How powerful is the sun? To make the energy the sun produces, NASA says 100,000,000,000 tons of dynamite would have to be blown up every second. Solar flares that burst from the sun have been known to knock out satellites and disrupt electricity on Earth.
Here’s a quick look at the weekend forecast for Fort Lee:
Today: Sunny, with a high near 87. Northwest wind around 6 mph.
Our sun is NOT orbited by only eight planets. Please do not present the controversial demotion of Pluto by four percent of the IAU as fact when it is nothing more than one point of view. This decision was immediately opposed by hundreds of professional astronomers led by New Horizons Principal Investigator Dr. Alan Stern. Dwarf planets ARE planets too; Stern is the person who coined the term, and he intended for it to refer to a third class of planets in addition to terrestrials and jovians--small planets large enough to be rounded by their own gravity but not large enough to gravitationally dominate their orbits. He never intended for dwarf planets to not be considered planets at all. Our sun is orbited by 13 planets and counting: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris.
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So Patch did some research and dug up some fun facts about the sun in celebration of such lovely summer weather. How many planets orbit the sun? Eight planets orbit the sun along with one dwarf planet, Pluto. You may remember that Pluto was demoted as
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Pluto’s average temperature is very low: -233° C (-390° F), just 40° C (72° F) above absolute zero. At such a low temperature, all elements would be frozen except for neon, hydrogen, and helium Pluto’s maximum distance from the Sun – 7.38 billion km (4.6 billion miles) Pluto’s minimum distance from Earth – 4.28 billion km (2.7 billion miles) In 2006, Pluto was declassified as a planet by the IAU (International Astronomical Union) and changed to a dwarf planet Pluto is locked in a 3:2 resonance with Neptune. In other words Pluto’s orbital period is 1.5 times longer than Neptune’s. Its orbital inclination is moreover much higher than the other planets’, therefore although it appears that Pluto’s orbit crosses Neptune’s, it actually doesn’t and they will never have a collision. Pluto is the smallest planet in the Solar System and is almost half the width of Jupiter’s moon, Ganymede. Pluto takes 248 Earth years to cover its orbit around the Sun . This implies that, since its discovery in 1930, it still has 177 years to go until it can complete its journey around the Sun. Pluto was the single planet in the solar system to have been discovered in the Twentieth Century. A day on Pluto is equal to Earth’s 6 days and 9 hours. This is the second slowest rotation in the Solar System – after Venus, which requires 243 days to turn on its axis. It remains unknown whether Pluto has a magnetic field, but its small size and slow rotation mean that it has little to none. Just like Uranus, the plane of Pluto’s equator is at about the right angle to its orbit. If Pluto were closer to the Sun, it would be a comet. If one could somehow bring Pluto nearer to the Sun, it would sprout a tail, becoming a spectacular comet. And over millions of years, the solar wind would blow up its icy structure, causing it to lose mass.Interesting Facts About Pluto - Bookshelf
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