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St. Hugh's
Here are the decorated poles and descriptions from the students at St. Hughs:
On our pole we displayed our planet, HD20367b, with another solar system to show what its neighboring planets may look like. In this solar system we have four planets visible. The planet we were given is third furthest from its brightest star.
The first planet, closest to the brightest star of this solar system, appears as an orange-reddish color because of a dusty surface. This planet is small, rocky, has craters and three moons. It also has a very hot surface from being so close to the sun and has a thin atmosphere. We compared this planet to Mars.
The second planet in this solar system is very similar to the first. It is a reddish-brownish color as the other planet but has a little bit of a darker atmosphere because it is further from the sun. Like the first planet, this planet is small, rocky, and has craters. This planet has four moons. It has a warmer surface than the first but still is too hot to live on and has a thin atmosphere.
The third planet in this solar system is the planet we were assigned. We chose to show our planet as a bluish color due to traces of methane in the atmosphere. This planet is a gas giant and is third closest to the brightest star of this solar system. The surface of this planet is cold because it is a little bit further from the brightest star than Jupiter is from our sun. This planet has twenty moons because Jupiter has seventeen and this planet has a little bit more mass and can obtain more objects. It has an extremely thick atmosphere because of the great mass and strong gravitational pull. This planet has rings, but they are not visible because they are so thin.
The last planet we have shown in this solar system is a greenish color because of methane gas, which we believe would cause a greenish tint to the atmosphere. This planet has a very cold surface because little sun reaches the planet.
Our planet, HD52265b, is nicknamed Digo (short for indigo) because the color of the planet is a dark shade of blue. We chose this color because Neptune and Uranus are also gaseous planets, and they are blue due to the amount of methane in their atmospheres. Digo has rings made out of dust, dirt, and rock pulled into its gravitational pull. Our planet has 19 moons. We believe Digo has 19 moons because we compared its mass to Jupiter’s and calculated its moons compared to the amount Jupiter has. The surrounding area is filled with stars and several other gaseous and terrestrial planets.
We decided to make our planet, HD10647b, like the gas giants in our solar system because of their similar sizes. For the atmosphere of the planet we decided to make blue represent the color of methane. At the top of the planet we put glitter to show polar ice caps. Since we are comparing our planet to the gas giants, we decided to put a moon to show the strong gravitational pull of the planet. The black and purple represent the planet’s solar system. The sun represents the star that the planet revolves around.
Our pole shows our planet, HD4308b, and HD4308, its host star. The planet has shades of red and orange to show that the gases in its atmosphere change color depending on the direct hit of starlight. There are spots of gray to show that there are clouds in its atmosphere, which we believe is extremely thick. We think the clouds are clusters of cooler gases. The star on the top of our pole is separated from the planet by a dark line of space. This shows that there is a short distance between the two objects. The dark line going down the pole represents an area of space. The line wraps around the planet to give it a spherical effect.
We used black, orange, yellow, red, and glitter paint on our pole. We painted our planet, HR810b, red, orange, and yellow to represent that it was a gas giant like Jupiter. We used black to represent space and glitter to represent the stars. We put the name of our planet and a symbol for it on the pole.
Our planet, HD33636b, is a big gas giant, and it is about seven times the size of Jupiter. We chose the colors red, orange, yellow, and brown for when our planet is farthest from its star because they are similar to the colors of Jupiter. We related it to Jupiter since it is a gas giant just as HD33636b. We chose the color blue for when it is far away from its star and at its coldest temperature because Uranus and Neptune are both blue and are far away from the Sun and are cold.
We also think its orbit is an oval shape instead of a circle since it takes 1,553 Earth days to orbit its star. Its orbital radius is 2.62AU. This planet is definitely bigger than Earth, and it is much different from our planet. We also think its star might have a different gravity pull than our Sun.
We decided to make four gas giant planets revolving around a single sun. Our gas giants and our sun are theoretically larger and have more mass than any of the planets in Earth’s solar system. Our sun is a glittered gold-orange shade with a squiggly design on it that represents all of the sun’s prominences and sunspots. Since all of our planets are gas giants, they are made of minerals and show many false colors to demonstrate this.
The second planet from the sun is our planet, HD19994b, and the rest of the pole is its neighborhood. Our planet is a purple-blue shade surrounded by a large ice-covered ring. We decided to give it a ring because of its great mass. Since our planet is far away from the sun, it has a cold atmosphere.
We added one physical feature on our planet. The physical feature is a Great Pink Spot that represents a storm in its atmosphere and shows its similarity to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Looking at our solar system, we figured that since our gas giants are in a relatively close area, the planets neighboring our planet would be gas giants.
We put stars because we think there are many other stars with their solar systems. We painted our planet, HD27442b, orange and red because it’s a gas giant like Jupiter. We think the color of the gas is orange and red. We painted the background blue because we think that all the particles in that solar system refract the color blue. We also think that it is similar to our solar system. We also think dust and waste particles are trapped in space and orbit around the planet.
We designed our planet, HD39091b, black because of its mass compared to Jupiter. We put red sparkles on it because we thought it glittered in space. We put craters on it because we think it got hit by an asteroid at some point. Our planet has two rings because it resembles Saturn.
We used black, orange, yellow, red, and glitter paint on our pole. We painted the planet red, orange, and yellow to represent that it was a gas giant like Jupiter. We used black to represent space and glitter to represent the stars. We put the name of our planet, HR810b, and a symbol for it on the pole.
We drew our planet, HD3651b, on the pole and chose the color purple to represent the mixture of gases on it. The ring is red because the color is reflected off the star. We chose red as the color of the star because of its low temperature. There are four moons because we believe that since our planet is a gas giant, it has a large gravitational pull.
The symbol we agreed on is a combination of all the numbers and the letter b that are in our planet’s name. We also chose to do the pole navy blue to resemble the night sky. We put blue, gold, silver, and red dots for stars on the pole because that is how we imagine they look.
We wrote the name of our planet, Epsilon Eridani b, when it was founded, and drew the planet on our pole. We mixed orange and yellow together to represent our planet. We painted the background black to represent the darkness and background of space.
We made Gliese 86b red-orange because it is a gas giant like Jupiter and Jupiter is red-orange. We made a blue and black background because it is like the darkness of all other space. We put a sun because we think it is possible to be seen from Gliese 86b. We drew stars because they are in space. We put five moons because most of our large planets in Earth’s solar system have more than one moon. We made a galaxy because there are millions of galaxies in outer space.
The first symbol on our pole is a picture of Earth with a question mark. This shows that our planet could have similar characteristics to Earth. Another symbol on our pole is Jupiter and our planet GJ3021b. In the painting, GJ3021b is larger than Jupiter because it has about three times its mass. Our planet is painted one-half blue and one-half red. This denotes that half of the planet is hot and the other half is cold. This occurs because our planet has a highly elliptical path around its sun.
The next symbols are a snowflake and fire, which exemplify our planet’s two extreme temperatures. Water is the next symbol on our pole because we think our planet could contain water. The last symbol we put on our pole is a painting of GJ3021b’s highly elliptical orbital path.
Our planet, HD 142b, is about twice the size of Jupiter and is a naked eye planet. It is about one Earth distance away from its star. It is a gas planet with a highly elliptical orbit. It is in the constellation Phoenix. Our pole design is separated into three equal parts. We painted the top orange to show the area close to its star. We painted the middle black to show the mediocre temperatures where life could exist. We painted the bottom a light blue with icicles to show the cold temperatures further away from its star.
Our pole is an image of the planet Upsilon Andromedae b, its sun Upsilon Andromedae, and other objects in their solar system. We put our planet very close to its sun because data shows our planet has a 0.05 AU orbital radius, and it only takes 4.62 Earth days to go around its sun.
We also painted a ring around our planet because we believe that because our planet is so close to its sun, material attracted to the sun get caught in our planet’s gravitational pull and its atmosphere. Our planet is a gas giant. We put many storms on our planet because some large meteorites attracted to the star could create a storm much like the storm on Jupiter.
We depicted our planet, HD69830b, as having blue with white in its atmosphere. The blue stands for methane, and the white represents water vapor in the atmosphere. We also put many other planets in its neighborhood.
Based on comparative theorizing, we believe that our planet, Upsilon Andromedae c, has rings and many moons. Our group has researched this planet and found out it is a bright blue color like Neptune. Our planet is clearly unlivable because is has two times the mass of Jupiter, and we would be crushed. We painted the pole black and then added a lot of sparkles to show all the millions of stars in the galaxy and the real beauty and magic in space. Then we added our star and surrounded it with many planets to make it more space like.
We think that our planet, Upsilon Andromedae d, is greenish-orange because it is so big that it has many different colored gases. We think that gas giants usually acquire dirt and metals that build up and give them a rusty orange color. The color orange on the pole symbolizes the heat of Upsilon Andromedae d. The color yellow symbolizes its sun. The color red indicates how hot the planet gets when it comes close to its sun. The color blue symbolizes how cold the planet gets when it goes far away from its sun. The green and brown show the different types of gases that the planet is make of. Silver and gold are the last colors we put on our pole, and they symbolize the stars in the planet’s galaxy.
