Summary

This is the longest, most detailed lesson to date. It should be obvious that this is another case where we could have made an entire course out of the material, rather than spending a single week studying the Solar System in detail. This is a topic area within astronomy that is likely to be more familiar to many students than some others, so I think it is one where you might consider some of the less familiar aspects to concentrate on in your teaching. While we did look at some of the familiar aspects of this topic, we also covered the moons as individual, interesting objects in their own right, considered Pluto as the archetype of the class of KBOs rather than a planet, and looked at how the properties of the Solar System as a whole provide insight into its origin.

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