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Ms.Kaiter©2006-2009
"My very exciting magic carpet just sailed under nine palace elephants."
Mercury * Venus * Earth * Mars * Ceres * Jupiter * Saturn * Uranus * Neptune * Pluto * Eris
Click here: Solar System Project Template / Solar System Alien Project Webpages
"Surf" the web links below to learn more about your chosen place in our solar system.
Surf here: Your Age on Other Worlds / Your Weight on Other Worlds / National Geographic
Surf here: The Planets / Extraterrestrial Life / Extrasolar Planets / Planets & Dwarfs / Exploratorium
Surf here: The Eight Planets / Wiki Solar System / Explore / NASA Site / Astronomy For Kids / Star Child
Introducing...The Eight Planets
Click here: Mercury / Venus / Earth / Mars
Click here: Jupiter / Saturn / Uranus / Neptune
...and poor Pluto
~ Planet Image Gallery ~
Note: (images are not to scale)
Above: Planet Mercury
Learn about Mercury
Above: Planet Venus
Learn about Venus
Above: Planet Earth
Learn about Earth
Above: Planet Mars
Learn about Mars
Above: Planet Jupiter
Learn about Jupiter
Above: Planet Saturn
Learn about Saturn
Above: Planet Uranus
Learn about Uranus
Above: Planet Neptune
Learn about Neptune
Above: Former Planet Pluto
Learn about Pluto
Below: Chart of Planetary Superlatives
The Sun as center of the Solar System...Blasphemy!
"Eppur si muove" ~ Galileo's famous whispered last words
"But it does move."
* Claudius Ptolemaeus *Antique Astrolabe * Nicolaus Copernicus *
* Geocentric Model of the Solar System * Heliocentric Model of the Solar System *
~ : The Formation of the Solar System : ~
Click here: Formation of the Solar System / Formation of the Solar System Animation
Click here: Animal and Alien Adaptation
Aliens from Uranus...* ...Aliens from Mars... * ...Aliens from Neptune
~ Name that Planet ~
Question: Can you identify all of the Solar System objects in the image below?
Challenge Question: Can you identify all of the Solar System objects in the image below?
Below: Relative Sizes of the Planets and Moons in our Solar System
Below: Making a Model of Planet Earth...3rd Rock from the Sun
Below: A Blow-Up Solar System Hanging Mobile
Remember the order of the planets using the mnemonic sentence below:
"My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Noodles."
(Mercury - Venus - Earth - Mars - Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune)
A Scale Model of Planets and Stars...
Above: Our sun with Earth for scale
Below: Four Rocky Planets (and dwarf planet) in our Solar System
Below: The Four Gas Giants
Below: Our Sun Compared to the Planets
Below: Our Sun Compared to other Stars (Red Giants)
Below: Wicked Big Stars (Red Super Giants)
Below: Hubble Space Telescope Image of the Multitude of Galaxies in our Universe
Note: There are between one - two hundred billion galaxies in our Universe!!!
Note: Each galaxy contains between one - two hundred billion stars!!!
Below: Hubble Survey of the "Most Visibly Empty" Region of the Universe
For I dipped into the Future,
far as human eye could see;
saw the vision of the world,
and all the wonder that would be.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1842
