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Solar System Inventory

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.

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Solar System Inventory

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  1. Solar System Inventory

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Where is the camera?

  5. Where is the camera?

  6. Where is the camera?

  7. Handout: SUN SIZE Part 1

  8. Ratios in Science

  9. Scientific Prefixes

  10. 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. There are _______ kilometers per 1 centimeter

  11. Example: The size and distance of Planet X Data table for planet X

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

  13. Scale sizes of the planets

  14. Scale sizes of the planets

  15. Scale sizes of the planets

  16. Sun – Earth – Moon THIS IS A COMPOSITE IMAGE

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

  18. Voyager 1 and 2 (launched in 1976)

  19. Scale sizes of the Sun and Planets

  20. Scale sizes of the Sun and other Stars

  21. Scale sizes of the Sun and other Stars

  22. 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

  23. 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.

  24. Light Year Light travels at NOTE : 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

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

  26. We live in the Orion Arm

  27. Local Cluster

  28. Search for other planets in our galaxy

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

  30. 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

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

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