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Solar System Inventory

Scale modeling the Solar System Solar System in Your Pocket You can find the link to this activity on line here: http://www.astrosociety.org/education/astro/bayarea/PocketSolarSystem.pdf

Play Dough model of the Solar System You can find the activity we did in class here: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/scales.pdf

Where is the camera?

Where is the camera?

Where is the camera?

Handout: SUN SIZE Part 1

Ratios in Science 𝐷𝑖𝑛𝑜 𝐻𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝐻𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 =

KILO (k) CENTI (c) MILLI (m) Scientific Prefixes KILO (k) CENTI (c) MILLI (m) 1000 One Thousand 1 100 =.01 One Hundredth 1 1000 =.001 One Thousandth How many meters (m) are there in 56 kilometers (km)? How many centimeters (cm) are there 2 meters (m)? How many millimeters (mm) are there in 3 meters (m)?

Create a scale conversion factor If the Sun were scaled to 50 cm, how many kilometers are represented by 1 cm? The diameter of the Sun is 1,390,000 km. 𝐴𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝐷𝑖𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑆𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟 = There are _______ kilometers per 1 centimeter

Example: The size and distance of Planet X Data table for planet X Actual Distance (km) Scale Distance (cm) Actual Diameter (km) Scale Diameter (cm) Planet X 25,000,000 36,000

Create a scale model of the solar system in SIZE And DISTANCE MISSION Create a scale model of the solar system in SIZE And DISTANCE

Scale sizes of the planets

Scale sizes of the planets

Scale sizes of the planets

Sun – Earth – Moon THIS IS A COMPOSITE IMAGE

IBEX http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ibex/news/nobowshock.html

Voyager 1 and 2 (launched in 1976)

Scale sizes of the Sun and Planets

Scale sizes of the Sun and other Stars

Scale sizes of the Sun and other Stars

Size Perspective of the Video: Sizes of Stars http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sizes+of+stars&view=detail&mid=205F1E84A0ABBC9FD35D205F1E84A0ABBC9FD35D&first=0&adlt=strict Size Perspective of the planets and the stars http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sizes+of+stars&view=detail&mid=205F1E84A0ABBC9FD35D205F1E84A0ABBC9FD35D&first=0&adlt=strict

The Milky Way – Our home galaxy There are about 100 billion stars in our galaxy. We can see about 4000 on a typical clear, dark night.

The distance light travels in 1 year Light Year Light travels at 3× 10 8 𝑚 𝑠 NOTE : 𝑉𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑦= 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 A light year is The distance light travels in 1 year This is equal to 9,460,730,472,580,800 meters (exactly) ≈ 5,878,625 million miles ≈ 63,241.1 astronomical units

Where are we in the Milky Way? The Galaxy song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAlqdunLAL0

We live in the Orion Arm

Local Cluster

Search for other planets in our galaxy

Follow the Hyperlink to Explore the order of matter from large objects to complex groups of objects

Where we are in the Universe? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMRoDyc8W2k http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sizes+of+stars&view=detail&mid=205F1E84A0ABBC9FD35D205F1E84A0ABBC9FD35D&first=0&adlt=strict

Size Perspective of the Doesn’t link http://www.kiroastro.com/writings/perspective Size Perspective of the planets and the stars