Welcome to Class List 2 facts about climate change.

Welcome to ClassList 2 facts about climate change

Agenda• Solar System Video

• Intro to Astronomy notes

• Create Solar System Book

Video• The known universe

Gulp! Or is it? Jupiter is only about 1 pixel in size at this scale and the Earth is invisible!

But wait, there's more! At this scale, our sun is just 1 pixel and "giant" Jupiter is invisible. Antares is the 15th brightest star in our sky. It is more than 1000 light years away! Feeling pretty small and insignificant yet?

Space

• Astronomy – study of universe

• Solar System – sun and all planets and other bodies that revolve around it– Planets– Minor Bodies

Organization

SOLAR SYSTEM GALAXYGALAXY CLUSTER

•We live in the Milky Way Galaxy

•Hundreds of Billions of galaxies

•Possibly 500 Billion

LIGHT YEARS

• Astronomical Unit (AU) – distance between Earth and Sun– 150 million km

• Light travels 300,000 m/s

• Light travels 9.4607 x 1012 km in 1 year– Called a light year

How do we study space?

How do we study space?

Facts about space exploration

• April 12th, 1961First man in space

• May 5th, 1961 First American in space– Alan Shepard

• July 20th, 1969 – Landed on the moon– Neil Armstrong and Buzz

Aldrin

Create Solar System Book

Solar System Book• Create a book (4 pieces of paper)• Go to each paper (14 total) and write info

on the following– Sun– 8 Planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and moon, Mars, Jupiter,

Saturn, Uranus, Neptune)

– Dwarf Planets (Pluto, Ceres, Eris)

– Kuiper Belt– Comets– Meteors– Asteroids