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If you could stand on Mercury and peer at the sun wow thats blinding it would look almost three times as big a s it does from Earth and the intensity of solar radiation woul d be almost seven times that on Earth At the farther reaches of the solar s. 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. Part 1. Survey of the solar system. 1. What do you know (or think you know)?. Confer with your tablemate (or people in front or back of you) and write down five things you think you know about our solar system. . 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.. 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,. Solar System:. The sun and all of the planets and other bodies that travel around it. Planet. A celestial body that orbits the sun, is round because of its own gravity, and has cleared the neighborhood around its orbital path. Samantha Eckstein. In this lesson you will learn about each Planet in The Solar System. By the end of the lesson you will know facts about each planets and what the planets look like. Make sure to take notes along with the PowerPoint. . System. Chapter 23 page 642. A. The Solar System. The Planets: an overview. Terrestrial planets. Terrestrial = Earth-like. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Small and rocky. Largest is Earth (1/4 size of smallest Jovian planet – Neptune) . The . Great Chain of Origins and Origin Hypotheses (Nebular Hypothesis). Objectives. SWBAT evaluate varying hypotheses and their evidence about the origin of the solar system. . SWBAT compare, and contrast hypotheses about the origin of our solar system. . By . Ben . Mercury. The distances of planets from each other and from the Sun are often measured in Astronomical Units, AU.  One AU is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun, 93 million miles.  Using this system of measurement, Mercury is 0.39 AU from the Sun.. 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. The Greek philosopher Democritus (450–370 BC) proposed that the bright band on the night sky known as the Milky Way might consist of distant stars. Aristotle (384–322 BC), however, believed the Milky Way to be caused by "the ignition of the fiery exhalation of some stars which were large, numerous and close together" and that the "ignition takes place in the upper part of the atmosphere, in the region of the world which is continuous with the heavenly motions.“ The . flares, and ten facts about the Sun. I also will tell why we should learn more about the Sun . Solar Flares. . What are solar flares? Solar flares are powerful burst of radiation. Harmful radiation cannot pass through Earth’s atmosphere . Protoplanetary. disk: condensation and accretion. Solar wind (beginning of fusion). Collisions continue. Planetary migration (orbits shifting). Late Heavy Bombardment (Hadean Era). Planetary Evolution. Our solar system is ancient. . Early . astronomers believed that Earth was the center of the universe and all other heavenly bodies orbited around Earth.. Our Solar System. We now know that our sun is the center of our solar .