Name: Ocampo, Chris Almer B.

Course/Yr. & Sec.: BMSEE 3-17

Prof. Eisha Fernandez
The Solar System
Objectives:

At the end of this lesson, you students should be able to:

1. describe the solar system
2. determine how Earth compares with other planets in terms of size and distance from the
sun
3. compare and contrast the different members of the solar system

Part 1:

Watch the video the compare and contrast terrestrial and jovian planets using a venn diagram.
[National Geographic]. (2017, August 30). Solar System 101: National Geographic. [Video].
YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=libKVRa01L8&t=3s

TERRESTRIAL PLANETS JOVIAN PLANETS

TERRESTRIAL JOVIAN PLANETS

-Made from rocky materials. -Made from rocky and volatile

-Created 4.5
materials.
-Solid materials. Billion years ago
-From Dust and -Gas and ice materials.
-Don’t have rings Clouds -Has ring(s)
-Has very few moons -Product of Nebula
-Has many moons
-Warm planets -Belong in the Orion Star
Cluster -Cold planets
-In between the sun and the
asteroid belt -Supported by the
-In between the asteroid belt and
sun
-Small in size kuiper belt
-Bigger as compared with the
-Solid core/surface.
terrestrial planets.

-No solid surface

Name: Ocampo, Chris Almer B.
Course/Yr. & Sec.: BMSEE 3-17
Prof. Eisha Fernandez
Part 2: Modeling the size of the planets of the solar system

(ADAPTED FROM: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. (2020). PLANETARY SIZE AND DISTANCE COMPARISON.
HTTPS://WWW.NATIONALGEOGRAPHIC.ORG/ACTIVITY/PLANETARY-SIZE-AND-DISTANCE-COMPARISON/; ROS, R.M. AND
DEEG, H. (N.D.). PLANETS AND EXOPLANETS. NASE PUBLICATIONS)

Compare the size of the Sun, moon and other planets to Earth using this site application:
http://sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/messenger/psc/PlanetSize.html
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/comparing-objects-in-our-solar-system-by-rotation-size-and-
more/

Astronomical Object Diameter (Kilometer) Ratio (+1 if you’ll compute)

Sun 1,400,000 108.75 x bigger
Moon 3,475 2.67 x smaller
Mercury 4,879 1.6 x smaller
Venus 12,104 0.05 x smaller
Earth 12,756 Size basis
Mars 6,792 0.88 x smaller
Jupiter 140,982 10.05 x bigger
Saturn 120,536 8.45 x bigger
Uranus 51,118 3.01 x bigger
Neptune 49, 528 2.88 x bigger

How do the sizes of the astronomical objects compare?

You will notice that the terrestrial planets are small but compact, unlike in jovian planets they are
giants yet they have gaseous surface to the core. As compared to the Earth 5 of 9 stated
astronomical objects are bigger in terms of size. About 4 of 9 is smaller in size. I infer that it is
because of the close distance to the sun that is why the first four planets have solid core than the
farther planets.
Name: Ocampo, Chris Almer B.
Course/Yr. & Sec.: BMSEE 3-17
Prof. Eisha Fernandez
Part 3: Modelling the distances of the planets

(ADAPTED FROM: ROS, R.M. AND DEEG, H. (N.D.). PLANETS AND EXOPLANETS. NASE PUBLICATIONS)

Complete the table below using the scale 1 cm : 10 000 000 km

Astronomical Object Distance from the sun Size to scale (centimeter)

Sun 0 0

Mercury 58,000,000 5.8

Venus 108,000,000 10.8

Earth 150,000,000 15

Mars 228,000,000 22.8

Jupiter 778,000,000 77.8

Saturn 1,430,000,000 143

Uranus 2,870,000,000 287

Neptune 4,500,000,000 450

Using a string and the scaled distances, create a model of the distances of the planet from the
sun. Mark the location of each planet in the string.
Name: Ocampo, Chris Almer B.
Course/Yr. & Sec.: BMSEE 3-17
Prof. Eisha Fernandez
Part 4: Watch the video:

[Professor Dave Explains]. (2019, January 31). Pluto, Comets, Asteroids and the Kuiper Belt.
[Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD7Zt2cGXRc
Compare and contrast using venn diagrams
a. comets and meteors

COMETS METEORS

-no metal in the material -found in Earth’s atmosphere

-no metal in the material
-made up of carbon and
hydrogen (cosmic dust
-mostly can)be found in
the outer of solar
system
-suspected to have
brought water to the earth
-not spherical -made up of rocks and metal
-they all orbit
-made up of rocks and metal
the sun.
-can burn when as -mistaken as a shooting star
they enter deeper in
the Earth’s
atmosphere.

b. planet and dwarf planet

PLANET DWARF PLANET

-consistent in clearing -cannot clear their

debri on their orbit path orbitan path
-orbit the sun
-bigger in size -smaller in size
-both can have
-has enough gravitational pull -most dwarf planet is
enough mass to
to appear in spherical shape far from the sun.
be nearly round

- having enough mass for self- -low gravitational

gravity to overcome rigid body force/core
forces, resulting in a hydrostatic
equilibrium (almost spherical) form

-high gravitational
force/core
Name: Ocampo, Chris Almer B.
Course/Yr. & Sec.: BMSEE 3-17
Prof. Eisha Fernandez

Why is Pluto no longer a planet?

Pluto's classification was reduced to that of a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union
(IAU) because it did not match the three criteria used by the IAU to identify a full-sized planet. Pluto
essentially fits all of the requirements with the exception of one: it "has not cleared its neighboring
region of other objects."