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    The Solar System consists of the Sun and objects that orbit it due to gravity. It includes 8 planets, over 160 moons, 5 dwarf planets, and billions of smaller objects like asteroids and comets. The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

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    The Solar System consists of the Sun and objects that orbit it due to gravity. It includes 8 planets, over 160 moons, 5 dwarf planets, and billions of smaller objects like asteroids and comets. The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

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    The Solar System consists of the Sun and objects that orbit it due to gravity. It includes 8 planets, over 160 moons, 5 dwarf planets, and billions of smaller objects like asteroids and comets. The planets in order from the Sun are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

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    Solar

    System

    Jonathan Tzun &Evan Sousa


    Period 4
    Science
    What is the Solar System ?
    The Solar System are nine planets that
    make space and that form A Solar
    System. The word solar comes from
    two spanish words Solar means part
    of the sun and system is a process of
    something
    The Moon
    • The Moon was first visited by the Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 in 1959. It is the only
    extraterrestrial body to have been visited by humans. The first landing was on July 20, 1969
    (do you remember where you were?); the last was in December 1972. The Moon is also the
    only body from which samples have been returned to Earth. In the summer of 1994, the
    Moon was very extensively mapped by the little spacecraft Clementine and again in 1999 by
    Prospector.
    • The gravitational forces between the Earth and the Moon cause some interesting effects. The
    most obvious is the tides. The Moon's gravitational attraction is stronger on the side of the
    Earth nearest to the Moon and weaker on the opposite side. Since the Earth, and particularly
    the oceans, is not perfectly rigid it is stretched out along the line toward the Moon. From our
    perspective on the Earth's surface we see two small bulges, one in the direction of the Moon
    and one directly opposite. The effect is much stronger in the ocean water than in the solid
    crust so the water bulges are higher. And because the Earth rotates much faster than the
    Moon moves in its orbit, the bulges move around the Earth about once a day giving two high
    tides per day. (This is a greatly simplified model; actual tides, especially near the coasts, are
    much more complicated.)
    • But the Earth is not completely fluid, either. The Earth's rotation carries the Earth's bulges
    slightly ahead of the point directly beneath the Moon. This means that the force between the
    Earth and the Moon is not exactly along the line between their centers producing a torque
    on the Earth and an accelerating force on the Moon. This causes a net transfer of rotational
    energy from the Earth to the Moon, slowing down the Earth's rotation by about 1.5
    milliseconds/century and raising the Moon into a higher orbit by about 3.8 centimeters per
    year. (The opposite effect happens to satellites with unusual orbits such as Phobos and
    Triton).
    • The asymmetric nature of this gravitational interaction is also responsible for the fact that
    the Moon rotates synchronously, i.e. it is locked in phase with its orbit so that the same side
    is always facing toward the Earth. Just as the Earth's rotation is now being slowed by the
    The History of the solar
    system
    • The Solar System consists of the Sun and those celestial objects bound to it by
    gravity. These objects are the eight planets, their 166 known moons, five dwarf
    planets, and billions of small bodies. The small bodies include asteroids, icy
    Kuipr belt objects, comets, meteoroids, and interplanetary dust.
    • The charted regions of the Solar System are the Sun, four terrestrial inner
    planets, the asteroid belt, four gas giant outer planets, the Kuiper belt and the
    scattered disc. The hypothetical Oort cloud may also exist at a distance roughly
    a thousand times beyond the charted regions.
    • A flow of plasma from the Sun (the solar wind) permeates the Solar System.
    This creates a bubble in the interstellar medium known as the heliosphere,
    which extends out to the middle of the scattered disc.
    • In order of their distances from the Sun, the eight planets are:
    • Mercury
    • Venus
    • Earth
    • Mars
    • Jupiter
    • Saturn
    • Uranus
    • Neptune
    What do these planets

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