PDF-When you think about the four rocky planets in our Solar System

But its the second planet from the Sun Venus that puts the rest of the rocky planets atmospheres to shame With an atmosphere 93 times as thick as Earths made up almost entirely of carbon dioxi. By Joey Quattrini. Our solar system includes . 8. different planets.. The solar system is very, very big. You could say massive also.. The solar system has cold planets and warm planets.. The Sun. The sun is the star that keeps our planet warm and bright.. The outer planets are called Jovian or Jupiter-like.. These planets are made of gas and are several times more massive than the Earth.. The Jovian planets grew to present size in about 10 million years.. http://www.cs.wright.edu/~tkprasad. Prasad. 1. U3_SolarSystem. SOLAR SYSTEM. The Sun. Prasad. U3_SolarSystem. 3+ Dwarf Planets . Over 150 . moons . /. satellites of the . planets. Comets, meteors, asteroids,. Lecture by C.P. Dullemond. Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. Heidelberg University. Image . Credit. : NASA. The Big Questions. After C. Mordasini. > 10 billion galaxies in the Universe. 100 billion stars in each. Chapter 23. Prentice Hall Earth Science. Touring Our Solar System. Section 1. Prentice Hall Earth Science. 23.1 Objectives. List . how the major terrestrial planets differ from Jovian planets. Explain . Chapter 23. 23.1 The Solar System. 99.85%. of the mass of our solar system is in the Sun, planets make up the rest.. Gravity holds planets in orbit.. Overview of the Planets. . Terrestrial planets. Ag. Earth Science . Ms. Weigel. 23.1 The Solar System . The Planets: An Overview. Two Groups of planets. Terrestrial Planets- Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars- relatively small and rocky . Jovian Planets- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune- are huge gas giants. Nebula . Theory. Summing Up. SNT Explaining the Solar System. The Solar System’s disk shape. Inherited from the motion of materials in the solar nebula. . The planets and moons mostly rotate and revolve in the same directions because they evolved from the same gas cloud. . The milky way. (seen from Bryce Canyon, UT). The Solar System. ?. “A . system. is a set of . interacting. or interdependent. components . forming an integrated whole” (Wikipedia). The Solar System. The processes by which stars and planets form are active areas of research in modern astrophysics. The formation of our own solar system is central to the first half of our course, and important to the second half as well when we study the formation of stars. 4.1 . The Search for Origins. Goals:. Where did the solar system come from?. How did it form?. When did it form?. What properties of our solar system must a formation theory explain? . Patterns of motion of the large bodies . Ingredients?. Planets. Their Moons, Rings. Comets. Asteroids. . Meteoroids. . Kuiper Belt Objects. The Sun. A lot of nearly empty space. Solar System Perspective. Orbits of Planets. All orbit in same . GSUSA marks and content used with permission of the Girl Scouts of the USA. Montage of planets. . Image credit: NASA/JPL. Planets in our. Solar System. Meet the Neighbors. Background information. Planets. Fill in the Comparing Planets Chart with what you already know about the planets.. How does Earth compare to other planets in the solar system?. S6E1c. Compare and contrast planets in terms of: size relative to earth; surface and atmospheric features; relative distance from the sun; ability to support life.