1. Formation of the Solar System Transparency for Activity From Messenger Activity

2. Figure P1. The Sun and the planets shown at the right relative sizes but not at the right relative distances from each other.

3. Transparency #2 Figure P2. Diagrams showing planets (in different color circles), asteroids (yellow dots) and comets (wedges) in the inner Solar System (A), and in the outer part of the planetary realm of the Solar System (B) on October 1, 2009. Also shown in the picture are the orbits of the planets Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, and Jupiter (A) and the Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as the orbits of the dwarf planet Pluto and the comets Halley and Hale-Bopp (B). These views of the Solar System are from above the north pole of the Sun, high above the plane of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun.

4. Figure P3. Diagrams showing the planets (in different color circles), asteroids (yellow dots) and comets (wedges) in the inner Solar System (A), and in the outer part of the planetary realm of the Solar System (B) on October 1, 2009. Also shown in the picture are the orbits of the planets Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, and Jupiter (A) and the Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as the orbits of the dwarf planet Pluto and the comets Halley and Hale-Bopp (B). These views of the Solar System are from the edge of the plane of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun; the viewing angle is rotated 90º from the pictures in Fig. P2