Celestial Research and Trading Card
Introduction
You will be researching an assigned planetary object. After you complete your research, you will make a celestial trading card and demonstrate your learning by answering questions about your object. Your overall score will be reduced by 10% everyday it is late. You will turn in the following:
1. Trading card
2. Word processed “Celestial Sheet”
3. Noodle Bib
4. A printout of a recent article about your object
Celestial Trading Card
To guide your research for relevant information, I have listed research questions at the bottom of the page. Once you gathered all of your information, you will construct a trading card. Be creative as possible, have fun with it!
For your trading card:
Front of Card
1. A hand drawn colorful picture of your object or an interesting feature of your object.
2. The name of your object.
3. The location of your object in the Solar System.
Back of Card
1. Ten (10) essential facts about your object. All answers to the questions below should not be listed on card.
2. One trivia question with answer.
Below are some helpful research topics to consider putting on your trading card.
Questions
-What is your planet’s location in the solar system?
-Does your planet have an atmosphere? What gases are present in the atmosphere?
-Have humans been on the planet? Rovers? Landers?
-Anything special about your planet’s orbit? Revolution?
-Does your planet have a ring system?
-What are the temperature variations on your planet?
-What is the surface like? What is it made of?
-When was your planet discovered?
-Any special features unique (only found there) to your planet?
-Any features similar to Earth?
-What is your planet named after?
-Is your planet visible to the naked eye?
-Does your planet have weather?
-Who and where discovered your planet?
-Does you planet have any satellites (moons)?
-How does your planet compare in size with the other planets in the solar system?
Name:______Period:_____
Celestial Research
My celestial object is ______.
1. Explain how your object supports a heliocentric solar system.
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2. List and describe 5 obstacles to sending a man / unmanned vehicles to your object. Do not include “no oxygen to breathe in space” as one of your obstacles.
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3. If we could push your object closer to the sun, how would the gravitational forces experienced on the object change? Explain your answer using the following equation:
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4. Find a recent article about your object. After you actively read it (highlight and annotate), discuss what you found interesting about the article and how the information in the article adds to our knowledge about the Universe.
5. Compare your object’s eccentricity to Earth’s eccentricity.