Ch-33 The Solar System
NS100
                                         
. . .about 9 billion years after the Big Bang
                             
The Formation of our Solar System  
                             
Dust Cloud
                             
Past Hypotheses of Solar System Formation
sounds from the early universe

I grant you that no sounds are given forth, but I affirm . . . that the movements of the planets are modulated according to harmonic proportions.
-- Johannes Kepler, 1619

   

Summary of the Solar System
Animation of Inner Planets

   
  Sun Solar System  
                             
        Chart
                             
Sensational Satellites
 

Mimas  
     
        Eratosthenes finds the Diameter of the Earth!
Eratosthenes
           
  Why isn't there an eclipse every month?    
           
  Eclipse Diagram
           
The Farside of the Moon. . .
  Farside
. . .do we know what it looks like?
           
                     
               
                     
    A Puzzle for you. . .                      
                               
Winter

Clouded with snow
The cold winds blow,
And shrill on leafless bough
The robin with its burning breast
Alone sings now.
 The rayless sun,
Day's journey done,
Sheds its last ebbing light
On fields in leagues of beauty spread
Unearthly white.
 Thick draws the dark,
And spark by spark,
The frost-fires kindle, and soon
Over that sea of frozen foam
Floats the white moon.


Walter de la Mare