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THE SOLAR SYSTEM  THIS PPT IS BEST FOR ALL STUDENTS
Submitted by-
Harshit Mishra & Vinay Kachava
Submitted to-
Anjali dubey
TOPIC OUTLINE
• Birth of the solar system
• Geocentric & Heliocentric
• Solar system
- Sun
- Terrestrial planet
Jovian planet
- Asteroid belt
- Kuiper belt
- Dwarf Planets
- Asteroid
- Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorite
- Comet
BIRTH OF THE SOLAR
SYSTEM
GEOCENTRIC &
HELIOCENTRIC THEORY
- Ptolemaic System/ Geocentric Theory
Earth centered theory
- Copernican Scheme/ Heliocentric Theory
Sun centered theory
PTOLEMAIC SYSTEM/
GEOCENTRIC
COPERNICAN SCHEME/
HELIOCENTRIC
THE SOLAR SYSTEM
The name given to the Sun and the family
that orbits it. “Solar” means “of the Sun”
and the sun is by far the most important
member of the family.
- The Sun has a “pulling force” known as
“gravity” that keeps the planets flying off
into space.
THE SOLAR SYSTEM
- Solar System’s diameter is estimated to be
around 1.41x10 m. or 10 light hours
(1 light years= 9.46x10 m.)
- The sun and the solar system is located
within the outer limits of milky way galaxy.
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MODEL OF SOLAR SYSTEM
The Sun
 An averaged-size star
Greek name: Helios
Roman name: Sol
Photosphere: Surface
of the sun.
Sunspot: cool regions
Categorizing Planets
Terrestrial Planets Jovian Planets
Smaller size and mass
Higher density
Solid Surface
Closer to the Sun
Warmer
Few moons and no rings
Larger size and mass
Lower density
No solid Surface
Farther From Sun
Cooler
Rings and many moons
TERRESTRIAL PLANETS
(INNER PLANET)
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
Mercury
 Closest planet to the
sun and the eight
largest.
Roman god: Mercury
Greek god: Hermes
(messenger of God)
 Its surface is heavily
cratered and very old; it
has no plate tectonics.
Venus
 Second planet from
the sun and the sixth
largest.
Greek: Aphrodite
(goddess of love and
beauty)
 It was popular thought
to be two separate
bodies: the morning
star and evening star
Earth
 Earth is the fifth largest planet and the third from
the sun.
 Liquid covers 71 percent of the Earth’s surface.
 The Earth has one moon.
Moon (Luna)
Mars
 Fourth planet from the
sun and the seventh
largest.
Greek: Ares, the god of
war
 Referred to as the
Red Planet
 Has the most highly
varied and interesting
terrain of any of the
terrestrial planets
Moons of Mars
Phobos
Deimos
JOVIAN PLANETS
(OUTER PLANET/ GAS GIANTS)
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Jupiter
 Fifth planet from the
sun and by far the
largest planet.
Also known as Jove
Greek: Zeus (the king
of the gods)
 it is a gas planet,
which means that it
does not have solid
surface.
Jupiter’s Red Spot
 The Great Red Spot,
a huge storm of
swirling gas that has
lasted for hundreds of
years.
 When it is in nighttime
sky, Jupiter is often
the brightest ‘star’ in
the sky
Moons of Jupiter
Jupiter has 62 known satellites: the four
Galilean moons plus many more small
ones.
We’ll take a look at the four large Galilean
moons which were first observed by
Galileo in 1610.
Io
 Io is the fifth moon
of Jupiter. It’s the
third largest of
Jupiter’s moons.
 Io has hundreds of
volcanic calderas.
Some of the
volcanoes are
active.
Europa
 Europa is the sixth of
Jupiter’s moons and is
the fourth largest.
 It is slightly smaller than
the Earth’s moon.
 The surface strongly
resembles images of sea
ice on Earth. There may
be a liquid water sea
under the crust.
 Europa is one of the five
known moons in the solar
system to have an
atmosphere.
Ganymede
 Ganymede is the
seventh and largest of
Jupiter’s known
satellites.
 Ganymede has
extensive cratering
and an icy crust.
Callisto
 Callisto is the eighth of Jupiter’s known satellites
and the second largest.
 Callisto has the oldest, most cratered surface of
any body yet observed in the solar system.
Saturn
 Saturn is the second largest planet and the sixth
from the sun.
Roman: Saturn (god of agriculture)
 Saturn is made of materials that are lighter than
water. If you could fit Saturn in a lake, it would
float!
Rings of Saturn
 Saturn’s rings are not
solid; they are
composed of small
countless particles.
 The rings are very
thin. Though they’re
250,000km or more in
diameter, they’re less
than one kilometer
thick.
THE SOLAR SYSTEM  THIS PPT IS BEST FOR ALL STUDENTS
Uranus
 Uranus is the third
largest planet and the
seventh from the sun.
 Uranus is one of the
giant gas planets.
Ancient Greek: Uranus
(deity of heavens)
 Uranus is blue-green
because of the
methane in its
atmosphere.
MOONS OF URANUS
Neptune
 Neptune is the fourth
largest planet and the
eight from the sun.
Roman: Neptune
(god of the sea)
Greek: Poseidon
 Like Uranus, the
methane gives
Neptune its color.
MOONS OF NEPTUNE
ASTEROID BELT
the region of the Solar System located
roughly between the orbits of
the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied
by numerous irregularly shaped bodies
called asteroids or minor planets. The
asteroid belt is also termed the main
asteroid belt or main belt to distinguish its
members from other asteroids in the Solar
System such as near-Earth asteroids and
trojan asteroids.
THE SOLAR SYSTEM  THIS PPT IS BEST FOR ALL STUDENTS
KUIPER BELT
The Kuiper Belt is a disc-shaped region of
icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune --
billions of kilometers from our sun. Pluto
and Eris are the best known of these icy
worlds. There may be hundreds more of
these ice dwarfs out there. The Kuiper Belt
and even more distant Oort Cloud are
believed to be the home of comets that
orbit our sun.
THE SOLAR SYSTEM  THIS PPT IS BEST FOR ALL STUDENTS
THE SOLAR SYSTEM  THIS PPT IS BEST FOR ALL STUDENTS
ERIS
DATE OF DISCOVERY:
October 21, 2003
SATALITES:
1- Dysnomia
- Formerly named UB313,
a kuiper belt object,
officially named Eris in
Sept. 13,2006
- Largest known kuiper belt
object.
PLUTO
DATE OF DISCOVERY:
1930
SATALITES:
3- Charon, Nix, Hydra
- Named for the Roman god of
the underworld (death).
- 2nd largest Kuiper belt Object
- Discovered by Clyde
Tombaugh
HAUMEA
DATE OF DISCOVERY:
March 7, 2003
SATALITES:
2- Hi’iaka, Namaka
- Originally called 2003 EL61
- 5th dwarf planet found by a
team led by Michael Brown
MAKEMAKE
DATE OF DISCOVERY:
March 31, 2005
SATALITES:
0
- Smaller than Pluto
- 4th dwarf planet found by a
team led by Michael Brown
- Reddish color and likely
covered with frozen methane
CERES
DATE OF DISCOVERY:
January 1, 1801
SATALITES:
0
- 1st asteroid ever discovered
by Guiseppe Piazzi.
- Designated a dwarf planet on
August 24,2006.
ASTEROID, METEOR,
COMETS
ASTEROID
 Asteroids are small
Solar System
bodies that are not
comets, and historically
referred to objects
inside the orbit of
Jupiter. They have also
been called planetoids,
especially the larger
ones
BIYO
Despite often being called a planet, the lump of rock
known as 13241 Biyo (1998 KM41) is actually an
asteroid!
Some people argue that Biyo is a minor planet (the
name given to any planet smaller than a dwarf planet
like Pluto), but it isn't officially classed as one.
It is named after Filipino teacher Dr. Josette T. Biyo.
Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorite
 A meteoroid is a sand- to boulder-
sized particle of debris in the Solar
System. (outside the planets
atmosphere)
 A meteor is the visible streak of
light from a meteoroid that is
heated as it enters a
planet's atmosphere
 A meteorite is a meteoroid fallen
to the planet’s ground.
COMETS
 A comet is an icy small
Solar System body
(SSSB) that, when
close enough to the
Sun, displays a
visible coma (a thin,
fuzzy, temporary
atmosphere) and
sometimes also a tail.

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THE SOLAR SYSTEM THIS PPT IS BEST FOR ALL STUDENTS

  • 2. Submitted by- Harshit Mishra & Vinay Kachava Submitted to- Anjali dubey
  • 3. TOPIC OUTLINE • Birth of the solar system • Geocentric & Heliocentric • Solar system - Sun - Terrestrial planet Jovian planet - Asteroid belt - Kuiper belt - Dwarf Planets - Asteroid - Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorite - Comet
  • 4. BIRTH OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
  • 5. GEOCENTRIC & HELIOCENTRIC THEORY - Ptolemaic System/ Geocentric Theory Earth centered theory - Copernican Scheme/ Heliocentric Theory Sun centered theory
  • 7. THE SOLAR SYSTEM The name given to the Sun and the family that orbits it. “Solar” means “of the Sun” and the sun is by far the most important member of the family. - The Sun has a “pulling force” known as “gravity” that keeps the planets flying off into space.
  • 8. THE SOLAR SYSTEM - Solar System’s diameter is estimated to be around 1.41x10 m. or 10 light hours (1 light years= 9.46x10 m.) - The sun and the solar system is located within the outer limits of milky way galaxy. 10 12
  • 9. MODEL OF SOLAR SYSTEM
  • 10. The Sun  An averaged-size star Greek name: Helios Roman name: Sol Photosphere: Surface of the sun. Sunspot: cool regions
  • 11. Categorizing Planets Terrestrial Planets Jovian Planets Smaller size and mass Higher density Solid Surface Closer to the Sun Warmer Few moons and no rings Larger size and mass Lower density No solid Surface Farther From Sun Cooler Rings and many moons
  • 13. Mercury  Closest planet to the sun and the eight largest. Roman god: Mercury Greek god: Hermes (messenger of God)  Its surface is heavily cratered and very old; it has no plate tectonics.
  • 14. Venus  Second planet from the sun and the sixth largest. Greek: Aphrodite (goddess of love and beauty)  It was popular thought to be two separate bodies: the morning star and evening star
  • 15. Earth  Earth is the fifth largest planet and the third from the sun.  Liquid covers 71 percent of the Earth’s surface.  The Earth has one moon.
  • 17. Mars  Fourth planet from the sun and the seventh largest. Greek: Ares, the god of war  Referred to as the Red Planet  Has the most highly varied and interesting terrain of any of the terrestrial planets
  • 19. JOVIAN PLANETS (OUTER PLANET/ GAS GIANTS) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
  • 20. Jupiter  Fifth planet from the sun and by far the largest planet. Also known as Jove Greek: Zeus (the king of the gods)  it is a gas planet, which means that it does not have solid surface.
  • 21. Jupiter’s Red Spot  The Great Red Spot, a huge storm of swirling gas that has lasted for hundreds of years.  When it is in nighttime sky, Jupiter is often the brightest ‘star’ in the sky
  • 22. Moons of Jupiter Jupiter has 62 known satellites: the four Galilean moons plus many more small ones. We’ll take a look at the four large Galilean moons which were first observed by Galileo in 1610.
  • 23. Io  Io is the fifth moon of Jupiter. It’s the third largest of Jupiter’s moons.  Io has hundreds of volcanic calderas. Some of the volcanoes are active.
  • 24. Europa  Europa is the sixth of Jupiter’s moons and is the fourth largest.  It is slightly smaller than the Earth’s moon.  The surface strongly resembles images of sea ice on Earth. There may be a liquid water sea under the crust.  Europa is one of the five known moons in the solar system to have an atmosphere.
  • 25. Ganymede  Ganymede is the seventh and largest of Jupiter’s known satellites.  Ganymede has extensive cratering and an icy crust.
  • 26. Callisto  Callisto is the eighth of Jupiter’s known satellites and the second largest.  Callisto has the oldest, most cratered surface of any body yet observed in the solar system.
  • 27. Saturn  Saturn is the second largest planet and the sixth from the sun. Roman: Saturn (god of agriculture)  Saturn is made of materials that are lighter than water. If you could fit Saturn in a lake, it would float!
  • 28. Rings of Saturn  Saturn’s rings are not solid; they are composed of small countless particles.  The rings are very thin. Though they’re 250,000km or more in diameter, they’re less than one kilometer thick.
  • 30. Uranus  Uranus is the third largest planet and the seventh from the sun.  Uranus is one of the giant gas planets. Ancient Greek: Uranus (deity of heavens)  Uranus is blue-green because of the methane in its atmosphere.
  • 32. Neptune  Neptune is the fourth largest planet and the eight from the sun. Roman: Neptune (god of the sea) Greek: Poseidon  Like Uranus, the methane gives Neptune its color.
  • 34. ASTEROID BELT the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets. The asteroid belt is also termed the main asteroid belt or main belt to distinguish its members from other asteroids in the Solar System such as near-Earth asteroids and trojan asteroids.
  • 36. KUIPER BELT The Kuiper Belt is a disc-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune -- billions of kilometers from our sun. Pluto and Eris are the best known of these icy worlds. There may be hundreds more of these ice dwarfs out there. The Kuiper Belt and even more distant Oort Cloud are believed to be the home of comets that orbit our sun.
  • 39. ERIS DATE OF DISCOVERY: October 21, 2003 SATALITES: 1- Dysnomia - Formerly named UB313, a kuiper belt object, officially named Eris in Sept. 13,2006 - Largest known kuiper belt object.
  • 40. PLUTO DATE OF DISCOVERY: 1930 SATALITES: 3- Charon, Nix, Hydra - Named for the Roman god of the underworld (death). - 2nd largest Kuiper belt Object - Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh
  • 41. HAUMEA DATE OF DISCOVERY: March 7, 2003 SATALITES: 2- Hi’iaka, Namaka - Originally called 2003 EL61 - 5th dwarf planet found by a team led by Michael Brown
  • 42. MAKEMAKE DATE OF DISCOVERY: March 31, 2005 SATALITES: 0 - Smaller than Pluto - 4th dwarf planet found by a team led by Michael Brown - Reddish color and likely covered with frozen methane
  • 43. CERES DATE OF DISCOVERY: January 1, 1801 SATALITES: 0 - 1st asteroid ever discovered by Guiseppe Piazzi. - Designated a dwarf planet on August 24,2006.
  • 45. ASTEROID  Asteroids are small Solar System bodies that are not comets, and historically referred to objects inside the orbit of Jupiter. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones
  • 46. BIYO Despite often being called a planet, the lump of rock known as 13241 Biyo (1998 KM41) is actually an asteroid! Some people argue that Biyo is a minor planet (the name given to any planet smaller than a dwarf planet like Pluto), but it isn't officially classed as one. It is named after Filipino teacher Dr. Josette T. Biyo.
  • 47. Meteoroid, Meteor, Meteorite  A meteoroid is a sand- to boulder- sized particle of debris in the Solar System. (outside the planets atmosphere)  A meteor is the visible streak of light from a meteoroid that is heated as it enters a planet's atmosphere  A meteorite is a meteoroid fallen to the planet’s ground.
  • 48. COMETS  A comet is an icy small Solar System body (SSSB) that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma (a thin, fuzzy, temporary atmosphere) and sometimes also a tail.