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What is the solar system?
The Solar System is the sun and all of the bodies that orbit the sun.
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What is gravity?
Gravity is the force of attraction between objects that is due to their masses and the distances between them
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What did Kepler find out about the solar system?
Kepler found that objects that orbit the sun follow elliptical orbits. When an object follows an elliptical object around the sun, there is one point called aphelion where the object is farthest from the sun.
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Who came up with the solar system?
Nicolaus Copernicus
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What is the current model of the solar system?
The current model of the solar system is the sun-centered or heliocentric model.
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What is gravity's job?
force that attracts a body towards the center of the earth or to any physical mass around them
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What happens when an object follows the sun?
There is also a point, perihelion where the object is closest to the sun.
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What is one early model they came up with?
A greek man named Aristotle was a Greek philosopher. His model showed that the Earth was the center of all things. (384-322 BCE)
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Where is the solar system located?
The solar system is located in the milky way galaxy/ Orion Spur
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How does it affect Earth?
gravity has a force on the high tide and low tide because of the large force and pull
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How did people observe space before a telescope?
Until Galileo improved the telescope in 1609, people observed space with the naked eye.
To people who looked at the sky, it looked like the sun, moon, planets, and stars moved around the Earth. |
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How did the solar system form?
The formation of the solar system is thought to have begun 4.6 billion years ago when a cloud of dust and gas collapsed.
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