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Solar System in a roll Ron Thompson Our Solar System Our Solar System Cut a 4 foot piece of 2 wide register tape Write SUN at one end and PLUTOKUIPER BELT on the other end ID: 599275

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Slide1

A Pocket Solar System

Solar System in a roll

Ron ThompsonSlide2

Our Solar SystemSlide3

Our Solar SystemSlide4

Cut a 4 foot piece of 2” wide

register tape

Write “

SUN

” at one end and “

PLUTO/KUIPER BELT

” on the other end

This is the point where “things” get interesting

A Pocket Solar SystemSlide5

Fold the strip in half

Which Planet do you think is halfway between the

SUN

and

PLUTO

?

Hold the strip at arms

length with your back facing the group…what body part is near the fold?

Older folks may feel embarrassed but the kids will giggle !

A Pocket Solar SystemSlide6

URANUS

Pronounced: YUR an us

Write

URANUS

on the first fold

Are you SURPRISED? Most times, the Planets are depicted being close together but they certainly are NOT!

Fold the

SUN

to

PLUTO

again…(in half)

Fold the strip in half again…(in quarters)

A Pocket Solar SystemSlide7

At this point, it’s easy to figure where

NEPTUNE goes…between URANUS

and

PLUTO

Which Planet do you think is halfway between the

SUN

and

URANUS

?

Is it

JUPITER

or SATURN?

A Pocket Solar SystemSlide8

Our Solar SystemSlide9

SATURN

Fold the

SUN

to

SATURN

This next fold is

GIANT JUPITER

A Pocket Solar SystemSlide10

Fold the

SUN to JUPITER

Which do you think is halfway between the

SUN

and

JUPITER

?

Is it

MARS

?

A Pocket Solar SystemSlide11

The

ASTEROID BELT…write this on the fold.

Fold the

SUN

to the

ASTEROID BELT

What Planet falls on this fold?

Is it

MARS

?

You guessed right BUT…now we need to get the last three planets between

MARS

and the

SUN

A Pocket Solar SystemSlide12

Fold the

SUN to MARS

Fold it in half again

Write the last three Planets on their respective

lines, from the

SUN

: (OK to use Initial)

MERCURY = M

VENUS = V

EARTH = E

Se

e next slide

A Pocket Solar SystemSlide13
Slide14

Use the following chart and write the AU, Astronomical Unit, next to each Planet

Note the average distance from the SUN to

EARTH

is 93 million miles or, 1 AU.

The inferior “rock” Planets are less than 1 AU and the superior “Gas Giants” are more than 1AU

PLUTO

is now around 40 AU but circles the

SUN

between 30 and 50 AU in its’ 248 year orbit

A Pocket Solar SystemSlide15

A Pocket Solar SystemSlide16

At this scale, our 4 foot

SOLAR SYSTEM would be 6 MILES from the next closest STAR, Alpha Centauri, 4.2 Light Years from our SUN

or almost 64,000 AU’s.

One LIGHT YEAR is approx. 6,000,000,000,000

miles (Tr.)

Our

SUN

would be a tiny speck in space…the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

Our planets wouldn’t even be visible from this

distanceNow you know why SPACE is called “SPACE”

A Pocket Solar SystemSlide17

A Pocket Solar System

Solar System in a roll

Ron Thompson