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Our Solar System

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o Identify and describe the components and structure of our Solar System. Include important facts and figures.
 Sun- It is an average start. It has around 50 degrees Celsius. It takes 8 minutes to look at the sun. You can fit 1.3 million Earth inside the Sun’s shell. The diameter of the Sun is 1,392,000km.
 Moon (Luna) - The moon was formed 4.6 billion years ago, much later than the Solar System. The first moon landed was in 1969 by the USA. The first man stepped on the moon was in 1972.
 Mercury- It is the smallest planet in the Solar System and the closest planet to the Sun. The temperature range is -183 degrees Celsius to 407 degrees Celsius. It is the 2nd densest planet. The diameter of Mercury is 4,853km and the distance from the Sun …show more content…

They are objects made from rocks and metals that orbit the Sun but are too small to be considered as a planet.
 Comets- Comet is a relatively small, at times active, object whose ices can vaporise in sunlight forming an atmosphere of dust.

o Describe the structure of the Universe, including the major objects that it contains. o Describe the Big Bang and how it has led to the formation of the Universe.
 The Big Bang theory is outlining the early development of the current Universe.
 The Universe was hot and dense at the time so it started to expand very quickly.
 The Universe has cooled sufficiently so it allows energy to be converted into various subatomic particles which include protons, neutrons and electron.
 The Big Bang theory is based on observations where new observations that the theory has to be adapted.
 The Big Bang theory does not explain how the Universe began it just describes the conditions of the Universe in its early stages.
 We all can assume that matter and energy that exists in this Universe now and during the Big Bang existed before the Big Bang so it is just impossible for us to describe in what state it existed.
 The Big Bang happened approximately 14 billion years

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