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Triangulum Galaxy Essay

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According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU) to classify an object as a planet it must have three qualities. One it must orbit a Sun or Star of some kind. Second it must big enough for gravity to compress it into a big round ball. And lastly it must be big enough to pull neighboring objects into the planet itself or sling-shot them around the planet and shoot them off into outer space. The place for my planet is in the Triangulum Galaxy. The Triangulum Galaxy is a spiral galaxy about 2.7 million light years (25761569076837520000km)away from Earth. The solar mass of the Triangulum Galaxy is 50 billion Mʘ (standard unit of mass in Astronomy). This galaxy has about 40 billion stars which is 1/5th of how many there are in the Milky Way Galaxy. And 1/25th 's of the Andromeda Galaxy. The name of my planet is Frigusodayin (Cold Air)(Latin, Armenian). The first rule of classifying a planet states that it must orbit a Sun or Star. The Sun my planet will orbit is called WASP-56. Some properties of WASP-56 are that this star has an apparent magnitude of 11.48. Apparent magnitude is the brightness of an object as seen from Earth. The higher the apparent magnitude the brighter it is (Our Sun 's is 26.7). This star is a G6 star which is part of the G-Type main-sequence star group. The G-Type main-sequence star is a main sequence star of spectral type G and luminosity level V. These types of stars have about 0.8 to 1.2 solar masses. Solar masses being the mass of a sun or star

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