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• 60 Years of Space Missions to the Planets
  
  
• The Geometry of the Solar System
  
  
• Relative Sizes or Planets and Orbits
  
  
• Your Author's Picture of the Solar System
  
  
• The Scale of the Solar System - done right!
  
  
• The Terrestrial Planets
  
  
• The Jovian Planets
  
  
• Other Bodies in the Solar System
  
  
• Characteristics of Terrestrial and Jovian Planets
  
  
• Simulation of a Planet Retaining an Atmosphere
  
  
• Collapsing Cloud of Gas and Dust
  
  
• A Collapsing Nebula (load CollapseSolarNebula.swf)
  
  
• The Solar Nebula Hypothesis - a Cartoon
  
  
• Condensation of Different Substances
  
  
• Inside the Orion Nebula (load OrionNebProplyds.swf)
  
  
• Your Author's Planetary Formation Summary
  (This is used in narrated figure activity for your HW)
  
  
• Accretion from Planetesimals to Planets
  
  
• Terrestrial Planets made at Miami
  
  
• A Simulation of Gas Giant Formation by Gravitational Collapse
  
  
• A fairly recent report on gas giant formation

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