Microsoft PowerPoint - Gentry Lee PDS Town Hall.pptx

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• Space science
• Solar System
• Observational astronomy
• Planet
• Outer planets
• Asteroid
• Formation and evolution of the Solar System
• Phil Christensen
• Astronomy
• Space
• Planetary science

Pocket Solar System Building scale models of the solar system is a challenge because of the vast distances and huge size differences involved. This is a simple little model to give you an overview of the distances betwee

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• Solar System
• Planets in astrology
• Planet
• Kuiper belt
• Neptune
• Centaur
• Astronomical unit
• Dwarf planet
• Jupiter
• Astronomy
• Planetary science
• Space

Meet Our Solar System Remember, kids—planets, stars, comets, and asteroids can’t really talk. But if they could, here is what they might say! “Hi, Earth children! My name is the Sun. You see me almost every day! I

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• Planet
• Solar System
• Jupiter
• Natural satellite
• Space exploration
• Comet
• The Universe
• Saturn
• Discovery and exploration of the Solar System
• Astronomy
• Planetary science
• Space

DIY Solar System BRIEF DESCRIPTION In this imaginative craft activity, children make the planets of our Solar System using a template of an icosahedron (a polyhedron with 20 triangular faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices). T

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• Planet
• Solar System
• Jupiter
• Gas giant
• Uranus
• Outer planets
• Saturn
• Neptune
• Atmosphere
• Astronomy
• Planetary science
• Space

David W. Swift, Voyager Tales: Personal Views of the Grand Tour. Reston, Virginia: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1997, 438 pages including photographs and an index. This is an extraordinary book, wr

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• Voyager program
• Spaceflight
• United States
• Solar System
• Voyager 2
• Outer planets
• Voyager 1
• Uranus
• Saturn
• Astronomy
• Spacecraft
• Planetary science

APPENDIX ACTIVITY 1: MAKE SCALE MODELS OF THE PLANETS THE PLANETS & THEIR REALITIVE SIZES Mercury

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• Planetary science
• Planet
• Gas giant
• Solar System
• Jupiter
• Solar system model
• Book:The Sun
• planets
• and dwarf planets
• Astronomy
• Astrology
• Space

Hawaiian Astronomical Society P.O. Box[removed]Honolulu, HI[removed]This disturbance visible at the outer edge of Saturn’s A ring in this image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft could be caused by an object replaying t

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• Observational astronomy
• Terrestrial planets
• Night sky
• Venus
• Astronomy on Mars
• Meteor shower
• Planet
• Mercury
• Solar System
• Astronomy
• Planetary science
• Space

8 Planets Did you know that scientists used to believe there were 9 planets in our solar system? Now they believe that there are only 8. Check out a library book or search on the internet for pictures of the planets in o

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APPENDIX ACTIVITY 2: Make a Scale Model of the Solar System You have made a scale model showing the size of the planets. The next step is to make a model showing how far they are from the Sun.

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• Planetary science
• Solar System
• Planet
• Mercury
• Neptune
• Jupiter
• Orbit
• Solar system model
• Discovery and exploration of the Solar System
• Astronomy
• Astrology
• Space

Activity 5: Two ways to construct an ellipse. The orbits of all the planets, satellites (natural and artificial), and most comets in our solar system are ellipses. There are two ways to draw ellipses and find where the f

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• Ellipse
• Semi-minor axis
• Semi-major axis
• Focus
• Eccentricity
• Geometry
• Conic sections
• Algebraic geometry