Classifying+the+Solar+System+Web+Quest

Websites current as of August 6, 2012 What objects make up the Solar System? This is a question astronomers have studied for centuries. Today you work for NASA and will use information you gather from the Internet to identify and classify objects in the Solar System.
 * Introduction

Task Your first assignment is to complete the. To complete the worksheet, look at the following websites :

Solar System Exploration – Our Solar System

The Planets & Dwarf Planets

Our Solar System

Sky and Telescope.com - Observing Celestial Objects

Astronomy.com For Kids - The Solar System

Windows on the Universe - Meteors

The Nine 8 Planets - Scroll down and select a planet!



Task, the Sequel Look at the pictures of the planets below. Unless noted, all pictures come from the NASA Photojournal website ||

|| ||  || Photo from Hubblesite.org Photo from MESSENGER website
 * Sun
 * [[image:http://mrscienceut.net/Mars.jpg width="117" height="117" align="center" caption="Mars (Photo from Hubblesite.org) "]] || [[image:http://mrscienceut.net/Gaspara.jpg width="107" height="107" align="center" caption="Asteroid Gaspara"]] || [[image:http://mrscienceut.net/Jupiter.jpg width="137" height="115" align="center" caption="Jupiter"]] ||
 * [[image:http://mrscienceut.net/Saturn.jpg width="115" height="115" align="center" caption="Saturn"]] || [[image:http://mrscienceut.net/Uranus.jpg width="112" height="115" align="center" caption="Uranus"]] || [[image:http://mrscienceut.net/Neptune.jpg width="122" height="122" align="center" caption="Neptune"]] ||
 * [[image:http://mrscienceut.net/Eris.jpg width="144" height="144" align="center" caption="Drawing of Eris/Dwarf Planet"]] || [[image:http://mrscienceut.net/Pluto.jpg width="149" height="151" align="center" caption="Pluto/Dwarf Planet"]] || [[image:http://mrscienceut.net/Ceres.jpg width="144" height="144" align="center" caption="Ceres/Dwarf Planet"]] ||

Planetary Missions, Data, and Information
 * All of these pictures were taken by space probes. Space probes have changed what we know about our Solar System. **
 * [[image:http://mrscienceut.net/satellite_dish_turn_md_clr.gif width="78" height="73" align="right" caption="Radio Telescope"]] Your final assignment it to write a report about a space probe. Using the website below. Select a probe. Using your [[file:Planetary Probe Report Guidelines.docx]] collect the required information about your probe and then write your report. Have fun learning about a space probe. **
 * Space Probe Information **

NASA Science Missions
 * Conclusion **
 * When you reach this point, you have completed your assignment! Congratulations! Repeat after me - "I am a planetary genuis. I am so smart I amaze myself!" **