Prentice Hall EARTH SCIENCE Tarbuck Lutgens Chapter 23 Touring Our Solar System 23.1 The Solar System The Planets: An Overview The terrestrial planets are planets…
A Solar System Coloring Book Courtesy of the Windows to the Universe Project http://www.windows.ucar.edu The source of this material is Windows to the Universe, at http://www.windows.ucar.edu…
1. 2.13 Understanding our Universe 10 January 2011 What is this image? 2. Key terms Orbit: the path of an object moving through space such as the path of the Earth as it…
1. Overview of the Solar System Basics Source: Nine Planets - A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System * By Bill Arnett 2. The Solar System 3. The solar system consists of the…
1. *Comets Are celestial objects made of ice and dust that revolve around the sun in long, elliptical orbits. Edmond Halley an English astronomer, was on of the first…