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Earth’s Solar System Astronomy
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*8 Planets Go Around The Sun *Satellites (Moons) of Planets *Asteroid Belt *Comets Sun = Star
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My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos!!!
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My Mercury
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Very Venus
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Educated Earth
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Mother Mars
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Just Jupiter
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Served Saturn
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Us Uranus
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They’re Outta This World!
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Nachos Neptune
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Two Groups Of Planets
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Inner Planets – Dense, Rocky & Solid Mercury – So Hot...No Atmosphere Venus – Very Bright In The Sky Earth - …Earth Science Rox Mars – Fe = Red
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Asteroid Belt
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Outer Planets – Larger, Gas, Less Dense Jupiter– Biggest Planet Saturn– Rings, < Dense Than Water Uranus- Rings Discovered 1977, -370 F Neptune – Discovered in 1930 Two Groups Of Planets
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Planetoids... Pluto – Small, Fits Inside USA Sedna – Newly Discovered Xena – Newly Discovered UB313 – Newly Discovered Many, Many Others...
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Star Brightness Apparent Magnitude – how bright a star appears to an observer on
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Star Brightness Luminosity – true brightness of a …depends on size, temp & distance Candle vs Light Bulb vs Flashlight Distance!!!
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Star Brightness Absolute Brightness – Luminosity of a if they were seen @ the same distance…apparent magnitude if @ 32.6 light years from sun
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Light Year Distance Light Travels In 1 Year… 9.5 Trillion km 9,500,000,000,000 km 9.5 X 10 12 km
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