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audio solar system
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Below are some videos that you might want to watch in order to prepare your oral presentation.

What is a star?

What is the Sun?

What is Mercury?

What is Venus?

What is Earth?

What is Mars?

What is Jupiter?

What is Saturn?

What is Uranus?

What is Neptune?

What is the Moon?

Now you can build your scale model of the solar system from the data you all collected. To calculate distances, you can use this.

Here is an example of the distances you can come up with. You will need a 4.5-meter long piece of paper with a sun only 1.39 mm wide! And remember that the sun is by far the largest body in the solar system. No need to say you cannot draw the planets which are microscopic at this scale.

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