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Meteorids Video

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What are Meteors, Meteoroids, and Meteorites?

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NASA Sci Files segment explaining what meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites are and the differences in these.

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What Are Comets

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What is a Comet? - Celestial Bodies Facts | Geography for Kids | Educational Videos by Mocomi

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Tour of the Moon

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Sun video

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Question: Is our Solar system the only solar system, or one of many?

I think that our solar system is one of many because of many reasons. I think our solar system is one of many because astronomers think that there are more than two billion galaxies in the universe so I think that in those two billion galaxies there should be at least one solar system like ours. There are also many stars like the sun and they should be also having planets. Also, NASA says “Given how many they have found in our own neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, scientists estimate that there may be tens of billions of solar systems in our galaxy, perhaps even as many as 100 billion. Whether this estimate is correct and how similar other solar systems are to ours, remain to be seen” on their website. I came upon this website when I was surfing the web finding information on planets for my solar system catalogue. I go with NASA because they state that there are billions of solar systems in our galaxies. I think that there are many solar system in the two billion galazies with more than hundred billion Solar System.  So I think our so solar system is one of billions of solar system in the whole universe.

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Class-6C

Teacher-Ms.Sandhu

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What is the Kuiper Belt

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Asteroid documentery

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What are Asteroids? Facts & Information - Geography for Kids | Space Facts by Mocomi

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Interesting facts about our dwarf planets

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Dwarf Planets Interesting Facts, Including Pluto, Heumea, Eris, Ceres, MakeMake & Moons

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Video about planets in our solar system

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Learning About The Planets in Our Solar System

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Kuiper Belt is another belt like the Asteroid Belt. Kuiper Belt has all icy objects due to how far it is from the sun. The belt lies beyond Neptune and holds trillions of astronomical objects. Kuiper Belt can hold comets. Kuiper Belt was formed at the time of the formation of the solar system. Kuiper Belt can hold dwarf planets. Kuiper Belt is a disc-shaped region full of icy objects. Dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt may have tiny moons. The belt is 50 AU from the sun and is similar to the Asteroid Belt. The Kuiper Belt has more icy objects than rocky objects. The leftover gas, dust, rocks and ice from the sun, planets and moons formed the Kuiper Belt. In July 2005, astronomers found an object larger than Pluto. The Kuiper Belt is also known as Edge worth. The Kuiper Belt is also a part of our giant solar system.

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We learned all about planets but what about the dwarf planets. Dwarf planets are smaller than planets but isn’t a planet nor moon. Dwarf planets are in direct orbit of the sun. Dwarf planets cannot support life. Dwarf planets can have a solid and/or icy depending on its distance. Dwarf planets can have moons but not all dwarf planets have moons. Dwarf planets cannot have rings but have enough mass to be nearly round. Dwarf planets can’t clear the neighborhood around its orbit. Pluto, a dwarf planet, used to be considered as a planet until 2006. The surface area of Russia is actually greater than Pluto’s surface area. Astronomers know five dwarf planets which are Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris. Dwarf planets can also be an oval and can be located in the Kuiper Belt. Here are the differences between a dwarf planet and a regular planet.

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The Five Dwarf Planets

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Meteoroids! They are very important in our solar system like the other components.Meteoroids are a small piece of stone like debris that travel in outer space. They are not bigger than a pebble. We think that small meteoroids came from the Asteroid Belt. But meteoroids can also come from the moon or Mars, The Red Planet. Meteoroids are actually smaller than asteroids. But a similarity between them is that they both travel around the sun also known as an orbit. Meteoroids have various speeds but the fastest it can go is 42km per second. When they hit earth, the meteoroid burns up in the atmosphere and its dust falls down to Earth. 3000 metric tons of dusty space material falls to Earth. Meteorite is similar to a meteoroid but meteorite don’t completely burn up in the atmosphere before it hits Earth. When a meteoroid is burning in the atmosphere it glows. Meteoroids is also known as falling star. Meteoroids is a very important component in the atmosphere.

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Meteorid

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Meteorid

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Comets are another component of our solar system. Comets are icy, small solar system body. When it goes to the sun, the comet begins to outgas and make a tail/coma. Comets have a wide range of orbital periods. Comets also release gas or dust. Comets are mostly compared to dirty snowballs because they contain dust, ice, carbine dioxide, Ammonia, methane and beyond. This ingredients are leftovers. Comets are formed by revolution if the solar system. We think that comets might have bring water with them. We know that because space agencies have landed probes on them. The comets lie in Kuiper Belt and are no longer that few kilometer. Comets have several category and they are really cold as they called dirty snowballs. They are also the size of a small town. Comets are really interesting and they are easy to learn about.

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Comet

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Asteroids! Asteroids are an important part of the solar system. Asteroids are called minor planets or planetoids. Asteroids are an astronomical object orbiting the sun. Asteroids are airless rocky worlds and are too small to be considered as a planet. All the mass of asteroids are actually smaller than the moon, Luna. Asteroids can hit earth and they are located in the Asteroid Belt. The Asteroid Belt is between Mars and Jupiter. Asteroids are leftovers from the formation of the solar system. When an asteroid hits earth, they are called meteorite. Small asteroid are believed to hit earth every 1000-10000 years. But dangerous asteroid are really rare to find. The surface temperature of asteroids are -73oC. There are also types of asteroids such as C, S, and M type asteroid. The diameter of asteroids are few feet to few miles. Asteroids are also known as meteoroids. Some asteroids even have moons of their own. We also have a prediction that an asteroid got the extinction of dinosaurs. Asteroids are very rich in metals and some famous asteroids are 1 Ceres, 2 Pallas and 4 Vesta. Asteroids are very interesting and important to us.

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Asteroid

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We just talked about the planets but the moons are just as important to us. Moons are supposed to reflect light but their distance from the sun they cannot. Moons have many shapes, sizes and types. But all moons are solid bodies. All moons may not have an atmosphere but some might do. Moons are smaller than planets. Speaking of planets, moons orbit the planet they are with like our moon, Luna, orbits Earth. Planets can also have more than one moon. We just talked about a planet having more than one moon but planets can have no moons at all like Mercury. Our moon has faces that can be seen at certain Earth days. Moons are also known as natural satellite. The first person to go on the moon was Neil Armstrong. Our moon has a diameter of 3475km and distance from Earth is 384400km. The surface temperature is -233oC to 123oC. Our moon has no atmosphere and our moon was formed 4.6 billion years ago. People say there is a dark side of the moon and that is a total myth. Now everything of the moon is revealed.

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Earth's Moon

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All The Planets

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Our solar system is left out without our eight planets. So lets learn about those planets. A planet is an object in space that orbits a star and in this case the Sun. A planet is massive enough to be round. But a planet cannot cause a thermonuclear fusion. Our eight planets follow all the rules and the planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and of course Neptune. The biggest planet is Jupiter while smallest is Mercury. The eight planets fall into two main groups which are solid and gas planets. Planets can have moons and rings. All planets have an orbit. Remember we spoke about the two main groups but there are another two groups that matter about the diameter. The two groups are small and giant planets. Small planets have a diameter less than 13000km while giant planets have a diameter more than 48000km. Small planets include Mercury, Venus, Earth, and the Red Planet, Mars. On the other hand we have Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Planets are also well known as wandering objects. A fact is that all our planets combined make less than 1% of mass of the solar system. Planets are also judged by their density and mass. But to find all the measurement, we use AU which stands for Astronomical Unit. Planets are very important in our solar system and without it, our solar system is incomplete.

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The Sun

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The sun has many mysteries and a lot of interesting facts. So without wasting time here are the most exciting and fun facts of the sun. To start off lets talk about the sun’s age which is about 4.6 – 5 billion years old and for that age the sun is middle-aged. So the sun is a star and there are many different types of stars but the sun is a yellow dwarf star. Many people wonder where the sun’s location is and the answer is that the sun is in the middle of our solar system and is 147 – 152 million km. Now here are the basics of the sun but what about the diameter of the sun? So the diameter of the sun is 1,392,684 km and this is actually small compared to other stars. We learned about the diameter but now lets talk about its volume. The volume of the sun is a lot but it is very low compared to other stars. The sun can fit approximately 1 million earths inside it. So we know many things about the sun but we don’t know how fast it travels. The answer is simple, the sun travels about 220 km per second. We forgot one thing which the temperature of the sun and the surface temperature is 5500o C while inside the sun can be more than 15 millionO C. Well here are some interesting facts about the sun.

We just learned the basics now lets go deep inside the sun. The sun is amazing but did you know that it consumes four million tons of hydrogen every second. Also, it contains 99.83% of mass in the solar system. Talking about hydrogen, the sun used half of its hydrogen in the past 4.6 billion years. We talked all about the sun but did you know that the sun’s gravitational pull hold all the planets in place so the planets don’t fall down. I know that we already talked about the diameter but the sun’s diameter is 110 times wider than earth’s. The sun is like a planet because it has layers too which are core, middle and outer layer, photosphere, flares, chromosphere and the corona. The sun is very important to us because without it we wouldn’t be living. The sun also produces solar winds which causes radio interference at times. Did you know that the sun’s gravity is 28 times for than Earth’s. There you have it interesting facts about the sun!