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    Worlds Beyond The Solar System Anisa Noor October 21st 2014 SES4U Mr. Humpartzoomian Worlds Beyond The Solar System When we think of planets we do not often consider planets outside the friendly neighborhood of our Solar System. Our universe is constantly expanding with billions of galaxies inside of it, and to think all these galaxies hold nothing but stars is preposterous. If the planets in the Milky Way revolve around the Sun, there must be other celestial bodies revolving around stars elsewhere

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    Solar System Lab Report

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    There a many hypotheses explaining how the solar system formed. In science class, we learned about three hypotheses explaining the formation of the solar system. We learned about the nebular, protoplanet, and planetisemal hypotheses. In the nebular hypothesis, the solar system started out as a cloud. The cloud of gas cooled and shrank into a sphere. The law of conservation of angular momentum caused the sphere to spin faster. Centrifugal forces caused some of the matter to fly off of the sun. This

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    Our Solar System is made up of eight equally beautiful and diverse planets. The eight planets are separated into two groups: Inner Planets and Outer Planets. The Inner Planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, are the four planets closest to the Sun. The Inner Planets, also known as the Terrestrial Planets because of their similarities to Earth, all have rocky surfaces. They are much smaller than the four Outer Planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The Outer Planets and the Inner Planets

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    Essay about Solar System

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    Solar System Humans live on a small planet in a tiny part of a vast universe. This part of the universe is called the solar system, and is dominated by a single brilliant star-the sun. The solar system is the earth’s neighbourhood and the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are the Earth’s neighbours. They all have the same stars in the sky and orbit the same sun. Scientists believe the solar system began about 5 billion years ago, perhaps when a nearby

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    At the beginning of the solar system, in our universe, the Milky Way, the Moon (main character) is a planet and has a job to move in order with the other planets as well as the Earth in the solar system in the Milky Way. The planets were in peace until the was formed. The Moon was lazy and did not do its job as a planet, going anywhere and too close to the Earth, causing the oceans on Earth to cover the land by the rain in storms destroying many buildings from towns and homes of many people and the

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    The solar system formed when a cloud of interstellar dust and gas collapsed. The oldest meteorite specimens are remnants of the very first geologic processes to occur in our solar system 4.6 billion years ago. Because the interstellar cloud had been slowly spinning, the result was a nearly flat rotating disk which is referred to as the solar nebula. Much of the dust and gas in the disk moved to the center of the nebula where it fed a growing protostar which eventually became our sun. The dust and

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    are the basis of how any solar system starts, and is a necessary part of our solar system. Many theories have been brought up on how they are created however the most accepted and proven method is considered the Accretion Theory1. This also helps prove how come the inner planets are more mountainous and rugged, and the outer planets are gas giants that are frigid, barren landscapes where no life could possibly exist. Exoplanets have been observed outside of our solar system and where first pictured

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    There are nine planets in the solar system. Each planet is unique and special in its own way. However, the planet that is currently able to sustain life is the third planet Earth, which us humans live on. Unfortunately, because of the digression of the planet the human race of the future may one day have to relocate. Once that day come the government will have to choose one of the planets to colonize and terraform. Though all the planets have some type of property that would allow it to be terraformed

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    Most bodies in the solar system that display a solid surface will show evidence of craters. Many craters are apparent on bodies with no atmosphere such as Mercury or our Moon. Erosion and weathering have removed most of the evidence of craters here on Earth. Most asteroids follow simple circular orbits between Mars and Jupiter and are occasionally agitated by each other or more regularly by Jupiter, however, comets can often come too close to the Earth and other major bodies due to their highly elongated

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    Thesis: Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in the solar system, has the fastest orbital period in our universe at 88 days fast. Introduction: There are many planets in our solar system, but one of the more fascinating planets is Mercury. Mercury has been part of our solar system for more than a billion years. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and has many features and facts about it. Mercury orbits around the sun in 88 earth days, less than half the days it takes earth to

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