Solar System Distances
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Nathan Gealta
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Solar System Distances
A Quizizz Experiment
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Does this picture give us an accurate view of our Solar System?
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Almost 100% of the images you have seen of the Solar System are not accurate.
Mainly because pictures that are the correct scale are kind of boring.
"Hey, I think that tiny little dot right there is the Earth!"
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It is easy for your brain to get a sense of familiar distances such as the distance from home to school. It is much harder to imagine huge distances such as those in the solar system.
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We're going to be exploring an incredible website.
I love sharing this website with students because he really shows how far away objects in the solar system are from each other.
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This website breaks down our Solar System in an accurate way.
It shows how big our solar system would still be if the moon were the size of one pixel.
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You will have 5 minutes or so to investigate this site.
Please keep this Quizziz tab open.
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93 Millions Miles!
That's how far the Earth is from the sun.
Neptune is 2.7 BILLION miles from the sun!
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The AU (Astronomical Unit) is the distance from the sun to the Earth.
1 AU= 150,000,000 km
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1 AU= 93,000,000 miles
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