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Title: Our Trip to Outer Space


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Our Trip to Outer Space
  • By Laurice Artap, Danielle Dela Cruz, Eric
    Fragola, and Lee Semien

4th Quarter Project
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Astronomical Units AU
  • 1 astronomical unit 149,598,000,000
  • Approximately the mean distance between the earth
    and the sun
  • It is used to measure the distances within the
    solar system

3
Light Years
  • A unit of distance that light can travel in 1
    year
  • In 1 year it travels about 10 trillion km.

4
The tenth Planet Lila
  • Was discovered by Michael Brown, Chad Trujillo,
    and David Rabinowitz in 2003
  • Almost 10 billion miles away from the sun
  • Has a diameter bigger than 2,302 kilometers
  • Very similar to the planet Pluto, but its surface
    is almost completely white.

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Alpha Centuari
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70 Virginis B (Goldilocks)
  • Discovered in 1996 by Marcy Butler
  • The orbital radius is .488 AU
  • The mean average temperature is 85 degrees
    Celsius
  • Its 59 light years away from our solar system.
  • Sidereel period is 116.7 earth days.

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Super Earth
  • Super earth is 14x the size of Earth and also 14x
    its weight
  • Although it is far too cold (-330) it is the most
    promising planet to support life.
  • Has the same chemical make-up as Earth.
  • It was discovered by using microlensing
  • It is 50 light years away our solar system
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