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Johannes Kepler
1) The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci.
2) A line joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time.
3) The square of the orbital period of a planet is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit. -
Solar System
During the new moon, a near-grand conjunction of the classical planets and several binocular Solar System bodies occur. The Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars and Saturn are all within 15° of each other, with Venus 5° ahead of this conjunction and Jupiter 15° behind. Accompanying the classical planets in this grand conjunction are Uranusin, Ceres and Pallas.
This connects to Kepler becaus with out his knowledge of the solar system we could have possibly not discovered the binocular solar system bodies. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 landing vehicle known as the Eagle, touched down on the surfce of the moon.
This connects to the binocular solar system bodies because this was discovered with seeing a new moon. Apollo 11 was to land on the moon to find out more information about the moon. -
Pluto - dwarf planet
But then in 2005, Mike Brown discovered Eris, an icy object thought to be about the same size as Pluto, out beyond its orbit.
That would bring the total number of planets to ten.
In order to settle the dispute, the International Astronomical Union met and argued for, and against Pluto's planethood.
This connects to Apollo 11 because the moon gave us more information about the solar system and how the moon contributes and knowing how all the planets contribute helped us know about pluto. -
New Planet
Scientists may have discovered a new planet in our solar system. Planet X.
This connects to pluto not being a planet because with knowing that a planet like pluto is not a "full sized" planet, we were able to discover a new planet, Planet X.
