Wikijunior:Solar System

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[edit] Contents

Wikibook Development Stages
Sparse text 0% Developing text 25% Maturing text 50% Developed text 75% Comprehensive text: 100%
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The pages included are:

  1. Title Page 100% developed
  2. Copyright notice 50% developed
  3. Introduction 50% developed
  4. Our Solar System 100% developed  as of November 1, 2005
  5. The Sun 100% developed
  6. Mercury 100% developed
  7. Venus 100% developed  as of July 8th, 2005
  8. Earth 100% developed
  9. Mars 100% developed  as of January 15, 2008
  10. Asteroid belt 75% developed
  11. Jupiter 75% developed
  12. Saturn 75% developed
  13. Uranus 75% developed
  14. Neptune 75% developed
  15. Pluto 75% developed
  16. Comets 100% developed
  17. Kuiper Belt 50% developed
  18. Oort Cloud 50% developed
  19. Space exploration 50% developed
  20. Puzzles 100% developed
  21. Glossary 50% developed
  22. Test 50% developed

[edit] Major Questions

The questions to appear in every module are:

  1. How big is this planet?
  2. What is its surface like?
  3. What are its moons like? or What is its moon like? (only applicable to planets with moons)
  4. How long is a day on this planet?
  5. How long is a year on this planet?
for moons: How long is its orbit around the planet?
  1. What is it made of?
  2. How much would this planet's gravity pull on me?
  3. Who is it named after? (incorporate Angela's idea of different kinds of texts, perhaps a box about the relevant god/goddess.)
  4. How was it discovered?
Note: Only Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and several moons have this section.

Note: Some pages replace "it" with the planet's or moon's name and some don't.

[edit] Other topics

Other topics in this book could be:

  1. About gravity, mass, and weight (alternate version at About weight and gravity) 50% developed
  2. How the Solar System was born 25% developed
  3. What will happen to the Solar System in the future 25% developed
  4. The Mystery of Space 0% developed just a general overview about how people have regarded space differently in different cultures throughout time
  5. Is there life out there? 25% developed looking at the old question; the possible Mars microbes are of note, sci-fi and speculation might be interesting to touch on.

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