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Contents

various parts of the solar system: the planets, dwarf planet Pluto, the asteroid belt, and a comet

The pages included are:

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright notice
  3. Introduction
  4. Our Solar System
  5. The Sun
  6. Mercury
  7. Venus
  8. Earth
  9. Mars
  10. Asteroid belt
  11. Jupiter
  12. Saturn
  13. Uranus
  14. Neptune
  15. Pluto
  16. Comets
  17. Kuiper Belt
  18. Oort Cloud
  19. Space exploration
  20. Puzzles
  21. Glossary
  22. Test

Major Questions

These major questions appear in every module:

  1. How big is this planet?
  2. What is its surface like?
  3. What are its moons like? Only for 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?
  6. What is it made of?
  7. How much would this planet's gravity pull on me?
  8. Who is it named after?
  9. How was it discovered? Only for Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and several moons.

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

Other topics

Other topics in this book could be:

  1. About gravity, mass, and weight (alternate version at About weight and gravity)
  2. How the Solar System was born
  3. What will happen to the Solar System in the future
  4. The Mystery of Space just a general overview about how people have regarded space differently in different cultures throughout time
  5. 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.
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