The Solar System Part 1 - Objects and Orbits
Channel: Astronomy with Mr Guerin
Date: 2021-10-27

Our Solar System is huge!  What are planets, comets, and so on, where are they, and how do they orbit, or move through space?

This video will tell you everything you need to answer these questions in EdExcel's Astronomy GCSE.

Download the slideshow:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1v7n69srfzFmgYxF9Vct6FKp3r_ZRqFjx

Halley's method for calculating the distance to the Sun:
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/29363/how-did-halley-calculate-the-distance-to-the-sun-by-measuring-the-transit-of-ven

Kerbal Space Program:
https://www.kerbalspaceprogram.com/
(logo used with permission)

Image credits:
Planets, WP, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Planets2013.jpg

Sun, NASA/SDO (AIA), wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sun_by_the_Atmospheric_Imaging_Assembly_of_NASA%27s_Solar_Dynamics_Observatory_-_20100819.jpg

Moon, NASA, public domain
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/676/phases-of-the-moon/

Mercury, NASA/JHUAPL, nasa.gov, public domain
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/multimedia/messenger_orbit_image20111129_1.html

Venus, NASA/JPL-Caltech, nasa.gov, public domain
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA23791

Earth, NASA/Apollo 17 crew, nasa.gov, public domain
https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_329.html

Mars, ESA & MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA, esa.gov, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2007/02/True-colour_image_of_Mars_seen_by_OSIRIS

Vesta, NASA / JPL / MPS / DLR / IDA / Björn Jónsson, public domain
https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/9-small-bodies/2013/20130819_vesta_rgb_20110724_0835.png

Juno, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Juno_4_wavelengths.jpg

Ceres, NASA / JPL-Caltech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA / Justin Cowart, wikimedia, CC BY 2.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ceres_-_RC3_-_Haulani_Crater_(22381131691)_(cropped).jpg

Pallas, ESO/Vernazza et al., CC BY 4.0
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1749a/

Jupiter, NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), hubblesite.org, public domain
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/24/image/b/

Saturn, NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute, nasa.gov, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn_during_Equinox.jpg

Uranus, NASA/JPL-Caltech, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uranus2.jpg

Neptune, NASA / JPL / Voyager-ISS / Justin Cowart, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neptune_-_Voyager_2_(29347980845)_flatten_crop.jpg

Pluto, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto_in_True_Color_-_High-Res.jpg

Haumea, Renerpho, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haumea_Hubble.png

Makemake, ESA/Hubble, wikimedia, CC BY 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Makemake_and_its_moon.jpg

Eris, NASA, ESA, and M. Brown, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eris_and_dysnomia2.jpg

Solar system bodies, SounderBruce, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Euler_diagram_of_solar_system_bodies.svg

2004 FH, NASA/JPL, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asteroid_2004_FH.gif

Asteroid belt, Flappiefh/NASA, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asteroid_Belt.svg

(253) Mathilde, NASA, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(253)_mathilde.jpg

Solar Max, NASA, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SMM_panel_hole.jpg

Meteor, Bautsch, wikimedia, CC0 1.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P10220XX.01.49.MESZ.14.08.2019.Berlin.Perseiden.x1.0.gif

Chelyabinsk, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, public domain
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11336

Murnpeowie Meteorite, James St. John, wikimedia, CC BY 2.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Murnpeowie_meteorite.jpg

Micrometeorite, NASA, nasa.gov, public domain
https://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/leonidnews40.html

Chicxulub crater, USGS, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chicxulub-Anomaly.jpg

Hale-Bopp, Philipp Salzgeber, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0 AT
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comet-Hale-Bopp-29-03-1997_hires_adj.jpg

17P/Holmes, Iván Éder, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:17pHolmes_071104_eder_vga.jpg

AU, Huritisho, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astronomical_unit.png

Edmund Halley, Richard Phillips, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmond_Halley_072.jpg

Transit of Venus, Vermeer, Duckysmokton, Ilia, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_Transit_&_Parallax.svg