To ASTRONOMY….. and beyond!

What we will be discovering:

 Structures of the solar system

 The Sun-Earth-Moon System
 The Planets and their Moons
 Asteroids, Comets, and Meteoroids
 Stars and Galaxies
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 Warm up question:

 Please fill out a KWL chart on your warm

up sheet for today….
 K- what you already Know
 W- what you Want to know
 L- what you have Learned (this one will be
filled out after the unit is over)
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(Don’t fret, this is all about you and your opinions! It’s just to get you thinking)
Now, let’s get started!
 But first…
a short video to get us excited!
Now, let’s REALLY get started!
(for real this time)
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Axis of Rotation Period of Rotation

an imaginary line that runs The time it takes for one
through the center of the rotation around the axis
earth. The earth rotates to occur.
around this line.
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Period of Revolution Ellipse

The time it takes a planet Oval shaped. (example:

to move completely Earth’s orbit around the
around the sun. sun is an oval or ellipse.)
ALL planets have elliptical
orbits around the sun
(Kepler’s first law)
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Astronomical Unit Light Year

The average distance from The distance that light travels

Earth to the Sun. in a vacuum in one Julian
1 AU = 149,600,000km year.
Typically used to measure
distances on a galactic
scale.
1 ly = apx 10 trillion km
Now, because I know you’re interested…

Revolution and Rotation

periods of the
planets:
Planet P of rot P of rev
Murcury 59 days 88 days
Venus 243 days 255 days
Earth 24 hours 365 days
Mars 24 hours 687 days
Jupiter 10 hours 11.9 years
Saturn 11 hours 29.5 years
Uranus 17 hours 84 years
Neptune 16 hours 165 years