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42" Solar Mobile

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The budding, serious astronomer will love this solar-system mobile that features actual NASA photographs. The planets, made of thick, high-quality card stock, are double-sided, highlighting each orb's individual colors and features. The accompanying 16-page guidebook is a great primer and includes some nice passages like, "Perhaps you will someday rocket from Earth to land on the moons, race the comets, or play tag with Saturn's rings." It's enough to make any mobile watcher and potential astronaut starry-eyed



Astronomy : From the Earth to the Universe

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Jay M. Pasachoff
August 1997
Fat textbook on astronomy


Design Your Own Solar System Kit

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This kit contains everything you need to create your own solar system!

Exploratorium


Want to get an accurate sense of space? That's the purpose behind the dynamic distance calculators at this site. Enter a size for the Sun - one that you can easily imagine - say an inch or maybe a metre, and the site will generate the resulting relative distances to the planets.


Galaxy Guide

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Measuring just under 7 inches across, this compact, rounded learning toy is an excellent beginner's guide to navigating around the night sky. Remove one of the 12 seasonal star maps from its storage pocket, place it in the Galaxy Guide's central bowl, adjust the map to point to the north on the inset compass, and adjust the red light underneath for your night vision. You're then ready to start mapping all of the major constellations and learning not only their names but also how to recognize the planets of our solar system. As an added bonus, there's a night guide to the full moon for those nights when lunar light makes star-watching a bit tricky. An included handbook also contains other helpful hints to star-gazing and a Planetary Finder Chart that will help you find our partners in the solar system through the end of 2001. Please note that the Galaxy Guide's star maps are designed for use in the northern hemisphere


Glow in the Dark 18" Solar Mobile

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Sometimes simple is better, and that's the case with this mini mobile. The actual NASA reproductions have been treated to glow in the dark, and the whole thing fits into a smaller space than most other mobiles. A solar system fact sheet that is not much more than statistics is included. As part of some toy-disclosure initiative, the packagers have also included the disappointing but true fact that to be accurate, the Pluto piece of the mobile would have to be the size of a grain of sand and hang 1.5 miles away

Gravity and planetary orbit game


Your chance to change the solar system. This Java game lets you play with the position of planets, make the sun twice as large or add a comet or two. You'll find there's something quite exhilarating about smashing a comet into the Sun!

Keplers Laws


This Java applet shows the motion of a planet under graviational forces and allows you choose its starting position and starting velocity.

NASA Space Link


An Aeronautics and Space Resource for Educators


Planetarium Play House

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Second Solar System Found


Thursday, April 15, 1999
Astronomers have discovered the first solar system other than our own. It has three planets orbiting a star that is 44 light years away.


Solar System 1000-piece Puzzle

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Solar system interactive tour


Real time astronomical data is used to let you see where all the planets are in relations to each other. You can spin the image round to get the best viewpoint and zoom in and out as far as you like. Not as good as Red Shift, but useful.


Solar System Science Kit

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A winner of the National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval, this educational kit teaches a broad range of lessons about astronomy. Scientifically inclined kids of all ages will enjoy constructing colorful scale models of all nine planets. They're relatively big, with Jupiter, the largest, 5 inches wide. The kit also features a big (36 by 12 inches) poster of the Sun, complete with sunspots. A 64-page solar system science book contains assembly and painting instructions, information about all the planets and their moons, and a score of suggestions for fun and educational science experiments. This kit makes a nifty companion to Educational Design's Our Amazing Planet Earth. (Ages 8 and older)

Solar System Simulation


This Java applet represents the solar system, including the four major moons of Jupiter and our own, and a couple of comets. Other heavenly bodies will be added on request.


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