Module 2

The Earth and Solar System

 BUMI DALAM TATASURYA
• Matahari dan planet-planetnya
• Anatomi bumi
• Dinamika bumi
A GALAXY IS BUILT BY MANY SOLARS SYSTEM
MILKY WAY GALAXY
 Universe of
galaxy groups

Local Group

Milky Way

Solar System
99% of the mass of the solar system is in the sun
The composition of the sun
Planets
- orbit the sun in the plane of the sun’s equator
- come in two groups:
+ the Terestrial Planets
+ the Jovian Planets
TERRESTRIAL PLANETS: small, dense, and made of rocks and iron

Mercury
Mars
Venus Earth

The Asteroid Belt

Uranus Neptune
Jupiter Saturn

JOVIAN PLANETS: large, low density, and made of gas and ice
Kuiper Belt & Pluto
 Asteroids

Mathilde & Eros (NEAR)

Ida & Dactyl

5. Meteorites
 Chondrites

Ordinary

Carbonaceous
Chondrules under a scope

X-Ray Image
Abundance of
Elements in
Carbonaceous
Chondrites
 Achondrite - Stony Meterorite

A stone from the Stannern eucrite shower

that fell over Moravia, Czech Republic in 1808.
 Iron
Meteorite
 Stony-
Iron:
Palasite
Olivine

Iron
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