Astronomy club inauguration ppt

2. TODAY’S AGENDA: 1. JUPITER AND ITS
MOONS
• THE GRANDEST
PLANET
• Eleven Earths could fit
across Jupiter’s equator.
If Earth were the size of
a grape, Jupiter would
be the size of a
basketball.

3. TODAY’S AGENDA: 1. JUPITER AND ITS
MOONS
• FIFTH PLANET FROM
OUR STAR
• Jupiter orbits about 484
million miles (778 million
kilometers) or 5.2
Astronomical Units (AU)
from our Sun (Earth is
one AU from the Sun).

4. TODAY’S AGENDA: 1. JUPITER AND ITS
MOONS
• SHORT DAY/LONG
YEAR
• Jupiter rotates once
about every 10 hours (a
Jovian day), but takes
about 12 Earth years to
complete one orbit of the
Sun (a Jovian year).

5. TODAY’S AGENDA: 1. JUPITER AND ITS
MOONS
• FIFTH PLANET FROM
OUR STAR
• Jupiter orbits about 484
million miles (778 million
kilometers) or 5.2
Astronomical Units (AU)
from our Sun (Earth is
one AU from the Sun).

6. TODAY’S AGENDA: 1. JUPITER AND ITS
MOONS
• WORLDS GALORE
• Jupiter has more than 85
moons.

7. TODAY’S AGENDA: 2. MARS
• Mars is the fourth planet
from the Sun – a dusty,
cold, desert world with a
very thin atmosphere.
Mars is also a dynamic
planet with seasons,
polar ice caps, canyons,
extinct volcanoes, and
evidence that it was
even more active in the
past.

8. TODAY’S AGENDA: 2. MARS
• Mars is the fourth planet from
the sun and has a distinct
rusty red appearance and two
unusual moons. The Red
Planet is a cold, desert world
with a very thin atmosphere.
But the dusty, lifeless (as far
as we know it) planet is far
from dull.

9. TODAY’S AGENDA: 2. MARS
Phenomenal dust storms can
grow so large they engulf the
entire planet, temperatures can
get so cold that carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere condenses
directly into snow or frost, and
marsquakes — a Mars version
of an earthquake — regularly
shake things up.

10. TODAY’S AGENDA: 2. MARS
• Befitting the Red Planet's
bloody color, the Romans
named it after their god of war.
In truth, the Romans copied
the ancient Greeks, who also
named the planet after their
god of war, Ares.

11. TODAY’S AGENDA: 3. ORION CONSTELLATION
AND NEBULA
• The constellation is named
after the hunter in Greek
mythology is one of the
most obvious and
recognizable
constellations in the sky.
Two of the ten brightest
stars in the sky are located
in Orion — Rigel (Beta
Orionis) and Betelgeuse
(Alpha Orionis).

12. TODAY’S AGENDA: 3. ORION CONSTELLATION
AND NEBULA
• The Orion Nebula is a
diffuse nebula situated in
the Milky Way, being
south of Orion's Belt in
the constellation of
Orion. It is one of the
brightest nebulae and is
visible to the naked eye
in the night sky with
apparent magnitude 4.0

13. TODAY’S AGENDA: 4. THE MOON
• The surface of the Moon
has many features,
including mountains
and valleys, craters,
and maria—wide flat
areas that look like seas
from a distance but are
probably solidified
molten rock. Some of
these features are listed.

14. TODAY’S AGENDA: 5. THE PLEIADES
• The Pleiades (/ˈpliː. ədiːz,
ˈpleɪ-, ˈplaɪ-/), also known
as The Seven Sisters,
Messier 45 and other
names by different
cultures, is an asterism
and an open star cluster
containing middle-aged,
hot B-type stars in the
north-west of the
constellation Taurus.
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