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Solar Stuff - Coggle Diagram
Solar Stuff
Outer planets
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They were probably once rocky, but the gas that the sun pushed away was nearby, and joined the planets due to gravity. Probably all have SOME rings?
Saturn
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Has titan, only moon with thick atmosphere
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Neptune
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Winds up to 1240 miles an hour, fastest in the entire solar system. Has a grey spot, which is also a storm, similar to Jupiter.
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Inner planets
Mercury
-Thin atmosphere, which allows lots of drastic temperatures.
-Closest to sun, rotates so slowly that one side is almost always hot or cold
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Earth
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Tilted at an angle, giving it seasons
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Comets
Clumps of ice, dust, or rock that orbit the sun
When close to the sun, they have visible tails
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Eclipses
Lunar eclipses
Don't happen every month because the moon's orbit is tilted at an angle (5 degrees) and isn't always aligned with earth
Total lunar eclipses happen when sun, moon, and earth are perfectly aligned. Outside the penumbral shadow blue light is scattered from the earth's atmosphere. Red light is sent inward instead and makes the moon look red. Dust can block this out, though. Projects sunsets.
Partial eclipse: Moon position isn't perfect. Only part passes into the prenumbra. Shadow facing earth.
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The moon
the moon actually makes earth more livable by keeping earth from wobbling too much on its axis, I learned that the tidal rhythm that it creates is important, and that it probably spins on its axis at a similar rate of how it orbits the earth, because they both take about 27 days.
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