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1 Our Solar System Held together by Newtonian Mechanics Assembled By Ken Mitchell Livermore TOPScience

2 Mercury in Accentuated Color

3 Close ups of Mercury Mariner 10’s flyby

4 Mercury Mariner 10’s flyby

5 Mercury Chases the Sunset

6 Viewing Mercury is a Challenge

7 Mercury on the Horizon

8 Venus against a starry background

9 Venus Unveiled

10 Elevations based on radar measurements of Venus during the Magellan Mission

11 Welcome to Planet Earth

12 Mutual gravitational perturbations between different planets are present in any planetary system with more than one planet. In our solar system, under the influence of the other planets, the Earth's orbit periodically evolves from purely circular to slightly eccentric. This is actually enough to trigger the alternation of warm and glacial eras. More drastic orbital changes could well have prevented the development of life. From “ Astronomy & Astrophysics” paper – April ’07

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14 Mars’ Near Approach to Earth

15 Mars in Opposition, 2001

16 Mars in Retrograde

17 Mars Was Closest to Earth on December 18, ‘07

18 Mars on December 11 th 2007

19 Jupiter & 3 of the Galilean Moons. Guess which one is missing.

20 Hubble spots rare triple eclipse on Jupiter

21 Jupiter’s X-Ray Auroras

22 Aurora on Jupiter

23 The Great Red Spot

24 Europa & Io showing Volcano Tvashtar

25 Saturn from Cassini at about 110 million km

26 Saturn – Another view

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28 Sun Behind Saturn

29 A Mysterious Hexagonal Cloud System on Saturn

30 Saturnian Aurora

31 Uranus with Rings and Moons

32 Hubble captures a rare eclipse on Uranus

33 A Sharper View of a Tilted Planet

34 Spring time on Neptune

35 Triton: Neptune's Largest Moon

36 Pluto and its moon Charon

37 Possible Pluto Moons


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