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The Solar System

Introduction Our Solar System The Sun Mercury Venus Earth Moon Mars Asteroid belt Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Comets Kuiper Belt Oort Cloud Glossary

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Contents 1 Complete Wikibook 2 Main modules 3 Major Questions 4 Other modules 5 Useful links

[edit] Complete Wikibook

[edit] Main modules

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The modules included are:

1. Title Page
2. Copyright notice
3. Introduction
4. Our Solar System
5. The Sun
6. Mercury
7. Venus
8. Earth
   • Moon
9. Mars
   • Phobos
   • Deimos
10. Asteroid belt
11. Jupiter
    • Amalthea
    • Io
    • Europa
    • Ganymede
    • Callisto
12. Saturn
    • Mimas
    • Enceladus
    • Tethys
    • Dione
    • Rhea
    • Titan
    • Hyperion
    • Iapetus
    • Phoebe
13. Uranus
    • Miranda
    • Ariel
    • Umbriel
    • Titania
    • Oberon
14. Neptune
    • Proteus
    • Triton
    • Nereid
15. Pluto
    • Charon
16. Comets
17. Kuiper Belt
18. Oort Cloud
19. Space exploration
20. Puzzles
21. Glossary

[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 modules

Other modules in this book could be:

1. Wikijunior Solar System/About gravity, mass, and weight
2. Wikijunior Solar System/How the Solar System was born
3. Wikijunior Solar System/What will happen to the Solar System in the future
4. Wikijunior Solar System/The Mystery of Space just a general overview about how people have regarded space differently in different cultures throughout time
5. Wikijunior Solar System/Is there life out there? looking at the old question; the possible Mars microbes are of note, sci-fi and speculation might be interesting to touch on.
6. Wikijunior Solar System/Zodiacal symbols Explanations of the various symbols for the planets and their meanings

[edit] Useful links

Wikipedia has related information at Solar system.

• Windows to the Universe: our Solar System -- This website is first-rate for kids. You can choose text appropriate for elementary, middle-school, or high-school students.
• Solar System on Wikipedia
• Guide to our Solar System from CBBC Newsround
• National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) planetary science page
• The Nine Planets Website
• Views of the Solar System (including multi-lingual references)
• NASA Solar System exploration (Public domain - usable in this book - See acceptable use policy)
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific education page
• How to Compute Planetary Positions, by Paul Schlyter
• Celestia, Celestia WikiBook - A free space simulation that lets you and your children explore our universe in three dimensions.

Improve These Modules - April 2008 Europe:Portugal Help us complete this country profile Solar System:Io One of Jupiter's most interesting moons. Dinosaurs:Ankylosaurus Everyone's favorite club tailed dino. Bugs:Walking Stick This bug really knows camouflage. Please work to bring the modules up to publishable status.

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