StarChild: The Solar System

The Solar System. ... Solar System Activities. Show me the Level 2 version of this page. Return to StarChild homepage, Return to the StarChild ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/solar_system.html - 7k

StarChild: Multidisciplinary Solar System Activities: Solar System ...

Solar System Shuffle. ... Once you have unshuffled the deck, check to see how close you came to being a "Solar System Shuffle Super StarChild.". ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/activity/solar_system_shuffle.html - 8k

Multidisciplinary Activities on the Solar System

Solar System Activities. Each of the activities below can be performed using either CGI or JavaScript versions. ... Solar System Shuffle. ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/activity.html - 6k

Can you tell me about the other solar systems being discovered?

In our solar system, for example, the Sun outshines its planets about one billion times in visible light. ... Dawn of a New Solar System. ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question10.html - 11k

Have they found a new planet in our solar system?

Question: Have they found a new planet in our solar system? Answer: No, they have not found a new planet - a 10th planet - in our solar system. ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question50.html - 6k

Solar System Shuffle Solution

Solar System Shuffle Solution. The Correct Card, The Clue. A. This ice planet ... as it. Solar System Object: Pluto Matching Card Number: 6. B. The ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/shuffle_solution.html - 7k

StarChild: Multidisciplinary Solar System Activities: Where does ...

Each orbit pattern is numbered 1 through 9. The names of the solar system objects are listed in the chart under the solar system map. ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/javascript/planet_go.html - 7k

StarChild: Multidisciplinary Solar System Activities: Planet Hop

Planet Hop. Below is a chart which lists the gravitational pull (relative to Earth's) of each planet in our solar system. Also included ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level2/activity/planet_hop.html - 9k

StarChild: Multidisciplinary Solar System Activities: Pair Me Up ...

All of the pictures below are of objects found in our solar system. Each picture on the left side of the page has an exact look-a-like on the right side. ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/javascript/match.html - 6k

StarChild: Multidisciplinary Solar System Activities: Where does ...

Where, Oh Where Does That Little Planet Go? Earth, Planet number: 3. Jupiter, Planet number: 5. Mars, Planet number: 4. Mercury, Planet number: 1. ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/planet_go_solution.html - 5k

StarChild: Multidisciplinary Solar System Activities: Pair Me Up ...

Solution. 1, 3. 2, 4. 3, 1. 4, 2. Return to StarChild homepage, Return to the StarChild Main Page, Go to Imagine the Universe! (A site for ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/activity/match_solution.html - 5k

StarChild: Multidisciplinary Solar System Activities: A Song for ...

A Song for All Seasons. Artists throughout the ages have received inspiration from natural phenomenon taking place in the world around them. ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level2/activity/song.html - 9k

StarChild: Multidisciplinary Solar System Activities: Moonlight ...

Moonlight Madness. The revolution of the Moon around the Earth causes the Moon to appear to change shape in the sky. These apparently ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level2/activity/moonlight.html - 11k

Where did the Moon come from?

This theory proposes that a planetesimal (or small planet) the size of Mars struck the Earth just after the formation of the solar system, ejecting large ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question38.html - 10k

How do planets and their moons get their names?

For many of the names of the objects in the solar system, this is especially so. Most of the objects in our solar system received ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question48.html - 8k

StarChild: Eris

Eris is the largest known dwarf planet in our solar system. ... It was not until 2005 that Eris was identified as another possible planet in our solar system. ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/eris.html - 7k

Clyde Tombaugh

He was trying to find proof of a new planet in our solar system. ... In February of 1930, Clyde Tombaugh found proof of a new object in our solar system. ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level1/tombaugh.html - 7k

Radar

distance traveled equals to the speed at which you travel times the length of time you travel at that speed, we can determine distances in our solar system. ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/radar.html - 5k

Where do comets come from?

Statistics imply that it may contain as many as a trillion comets and may account for a significant fraction of the mass of the solar system. ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question40.html - 6k

StarChild: Space Probes

They do not have people on them. Space probes have helped scientists get information about our solar system. Most probes are not designed to return to Earth. ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/space_level1/probes.html - 9k

Will an asteroid hit the Earth?

Our solar system is very big compared to the size of the Earth, which means that the chance that the Earth will be hit by another solar system object such as ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question11.html - 8k

What is a brown dwarf?

A binary system is one in which two stars orbit around one another (just like the planets of our solar system orbit our star, the Sun). ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question62.html - 7k

What is the <A HREF = "/docs/StarChild/glossary_level1 ...

The synodic period is the time required for a body within the solar system, such as a planet, the Moon, or an artificial Earth satellite, to return to the same ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question32.html - 6k

StarChild: Did you know... (Milky Way)

able to feel the movement. We do not feel the movement because we are so small and the solar system and the Milky Way are so large. ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/universe_level1/milky_way_know.html - 4k

StarChild: Ceres

From 1802 until 2006, Ceres was the largest known asteroid in our Solar System. ... Ceres formed about 4.5 billion years ago when the solar system was forming. ... http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/ceres.html - 7k