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Our Sun and the Planets
A multimedia Tour
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How Do We See the Stars and Planets?
Sometimes we use telescopes on the ground…
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and sometimes we look from space.
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Where did the Sun and the Planets Come From?
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The Sun is a hot ball of gas!
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How Big is the Solar System?
• If the Sun were a basketball• Mercury would be the size of a period (.)
and would be 30 feet away!• Earth would be the size of a pin head 90
feet away• Pluto would be a grain of sand 0.7 miles
away• The next closest star would be in Alaska!!!
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Mercury is very close to the Sun
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Venus is covered with clouds, and it has lots of volcanoes
It is very hot on the surface
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Earth: “There’s no place like home.”
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Our Moon is Big!
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and People Have Walked on It!
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Mars: “Here we come!”
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Mars: “Here we come!”
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Mars: “Here we come!”
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Mars: “Here we come!”
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Mars: “Here we come!”
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Which Planet is the Biggest?
Jupiter
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Jupiter Has Many Strange Moons
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And the Strangest is Io
It is covered with Volcanoes
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Then Comes Saturn, its Rings, and Moons
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Followed by Uranus
And Neptune
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And Finally Pluto(Isn’t that a dog’s name?!?)
Pluto and its moon are smaller than the United States of America
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The Solar System also has a lot of space junk in it, like
asteroids and comets
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The Solar System is a rocking place!