Phyics P1 - The Solar System
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- Created on: 07-03-16 16:25
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- The Solar System
- Planets
- There are 8 planets orbiting the sun
- They orbit in ellipses
- Order: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
- Asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
- Plants reflect light and are much closer to the sun that any other stars
- There are 8 planets orbiting the sun
- What else is there?
- Asteroids and Comets
- Are left over from the formation of the universe
- Asteroids are made from lumps of rubble and rock
- Comets are balls of rock, dust and ice
- They orbit the sun in elongated ellipses
- When the ice melts as it nears the sun it leaves a ail of gas and debris
- Asteroids and Comets
- How old?
- Around 5 thousand million years
- Formed over a long period
- From clouds of dust and gas
- One cloud started to get squeezed tightly
- Once particles a bit closer gravity took over
- Cloud stared to collapse in on itself when it got too dense
- Once particles a bit closer gravity took over
- Planets
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