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Solar System
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Ideas About the Universe
How big? ? 40 Feet Long ? 2 thousand miles diameter ? 75 thousand miles diameter ? 875 thousand miles diameter ? 600 trillion miles across ? 600 thousand trillion miles across ? 600 million trillion miles across ?
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Ideas About the Universe
How Far? ? 350 miles ? 250 thousand miles ? 93 million miles ? 790 million miles ? 2400 trillion miles ? 200 million trillion miles ? 30 billion trillion miles ?
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Ideas About the Universe
How Old ?? About 25 years ? 80 million years ? ~4.5 billion years ? ~4.5 billion years ? ~4.5 billion years ? ~10 billion years ? ~10 billion years ?
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Objects in the Solar System
The Sun Planets Dwarf Planets Asteroids Comets
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Astronomical Unit (AU)
The average distance from Earth to the Sun About 150 million km
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Motion of Planets Revolution Rotation
Time it takes an object to travel once around the sun Rotation Time it takes an object to spin once on its axis
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Motion of Planets Elliptical Orbit
Planets travel in an elliptical orbit
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