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Understanding Objects in the Solar System. 5th Grade Science. Our understanding of the solar system, pre-2006. Other objects in company with our sun, such as the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. … and more visitors, such as comets originating in deep space.
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Understanding Objects in the Solar System 5th Grade Science
Other objects incompany with our sun, such as the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
… and more visitors, such as comets originating in deep space
Beyond Neptune, in Pluto’s company, orbits another band of objects.
Consider this relationship: Saturn Jupiter yes yes yes Pluto Venus no Ceres Asteroid Eros no no
And consider thisrelationship: yes yes Asteroid Eros Sedna no no Pluto Ceres no yes Neptune Earth
Two categories! Neptune What is the distinction between them? Pluto
Do these objects fit either of the two categories we created? What qualities fit? Which do not? Comet Temple Asteroid Eros International Space Station John Cowan, Ph.D. Earth’s Moon